Hans Künkel

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Hans Künkel (born May 7, 1896 in Stolzenberg / Warthe , † November 17, 1956 in Bad Pyrmont ) was a German writer .

Life

Hans Künkel came from a landowner family ; he was a brother of the psychiatrist Fritz Künkel . Hans Künkel grew up in East Prussia . He attended school in Landsberg / Warthe . In 1914 he began studying at the University of Munich . In the same year this study was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War, in which Künkel took part as a company commander on the eastern and later on the western front until 1918 . In 1918 he lost the use of his right arm due to a serious wound.

After the end of the war , Künkel studied political science at the universities in Greifswald , Berlin and Würzburg . In 1920 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Würzburg . He spent the next few years writing philosophical and astrological works; in between he stayed in Great Britain for a year . He then completed a second degree in education at the University of Jena . From 1927 he worked as a high school teacher in Harburg-Wilhelmsburg and Frankfurt an der Oder ; most recently he was senior director of studies in Wolfenbüttel and head of a home high school .

After he had mainly dealt with philosophical and astrological topics in the 1920s , Hans Künkel published mainly narrative works from 1932 . In his book The Law of Your Life, Primordial Forms in Human Life there is a section that shows a certain closeness to National Socialism: "In a bold, thoroughgoing way, the Hitler Youth tackled the education for the second and third archetype." In 1936 he received the People's Prize for German seal of the Wilhelm Raabe Foundation for his novel Fate and Love of Niklas von Cues . Künkel's most successful work was the novel A Doctor Seeks His Way , published in 1939 , which had a total print run of over 75,000 copies by 1941 .

Works (selection)

  • Welfare, its concept and meaning. Wuerzburg 1920.
  • The big year. Jena 1922.
  • Fate and free will. Jena 1924.
  • The right of the German people to live in their homeland and its realization through the building of houses. Jena 1926.
  • The sun path. Jena 1926.
  • The fearless man. Jena 1930.
  • The Children's Crusade and other short stories. Dresden 1930.
  • Anna Leun. Leipzig 1932.
  • The law of your life. Jena 1932.
  • Don't be afraid of fate! Pfullingen 1932.
  • Fate and love of Niklas von Cues. Leipzig 1936.
  • Caiaphas. Leipzig 1938.
  • A doctor is looking for his way. Leipzig 1939.
  • The ages. Jena 1939.
  • The wicked Ursula. Leipzig 1940.
  • Laszlo. Leipzig 1941.
  • The story of Grete Klink. Braunschweig 1942.
  • Beyond the day. Jena 1943.
  • The Prophet's Roses. Wolfenbüttel 1947.
  • Man and the powers that be in the struggle to shape the world. Braunschweig 1948.
  • Prophets. Stuttgart 1949.
  • The labyrinth of the world. Stuttgart 1951.
  • On the barren hills of the Neumark. Wuerzburg 1962.
Editing
  • Three thrilling stories. Bielefeld 1931.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Künkel: The law of your life . Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Jena 1933 (4th – 6th thousand), p. 181.
personal data
SURNAME Künkel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolzenberg
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1956
Place of death Bad Pyrmont