Hans Paeschke

Hans Karl Hermann Paeschke (born September 30, 1911 in Berlin ; † October 5, 1991 in Munich ) was a German journalist .

Life

Paeschke studied law in Berlin , Geneva and Paris from 1930 to 1936 ; he also studied philosophy and literature. Between 1932 and 1934 he worked as secretary of the "Franco-German Society"; he boasted of his contacts with Paul Valéry and André Gide . From 1936 he published film and literary reviews as well as essays, especially in the weekly “Deutsche Zukunft” under Fritz Klein . From 1939 to 1944 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine “ Die Neue Rundschau ” published by Peter Suhrkamp . Paeschke had connections to the resistance against National Socialism .

In 1946/47, Paeschke and the former top Nazi cultural functionary Gerhard Heller in Baden-Baden published the magazine “Lancelot. The messenger from France ”. The magazine included a publishing house of the same name based in Neuwied , in which Paeschke, as a translator, published a brochure entitled “ Descartes 1649 - Aragon 1946. The Birth of Peace” in 1949 . Since 1947 he was a member of the executive committee of the "Südwestdeutscher Kulturring". In 1947 he founded the magazine Merkur with Joachim Moras at the headquarters of the military administration of the French zone in Baden-Baden , which he was editor-in-chief until 1978.

family

Paeschke was married to Taissia Alexandrowna, Freiherrin von Falz-Fein since 1946 (1911 Nice - 1988 Munich ).

Awards

• Honorary gift from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (1970)
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1973)
• Theodor Heuss Medal (1978)
• Member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry (1976)

Works

• Rudolf Kassner , Neske, Pfullingen 1963.
• Edited with Joachim Moras, with the assistance of Wolfgang v. Einsiedel: German spirit between yesterday and tomorrow. Balance of the cultural development since 1945 , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1954.
• Transl .: The Birth of Peace: Descartes 1649 - Aragon 1946 , Lancelot-Verlag, Neuwied 1949.

literature

• Farewell to Hans Paeschke. Commemorative speeches by Jürgen Habermas and Hartmut von Hentig , in: Merkur 45, 1991, pp. 1135–1142.
• Karl Heinz Bohrer : Hans Paeschke and the Merkur , in: Merkur 45, 1991, pp. 991–996.
• Börsenblatt for the German book trade , October 1, 1976.
• Karl Korn : "Merkur", a little German miracle , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 3, 1962.
• Kurt Scheel: Paeschke, Hans Karl Hermann , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 19, 1999, Sp. 755 f.
• Christian Schütze: Fire Spirit and Heavy Workers , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 1, 1991.
• Hans Schwab-Felisch: To the European Hans Paeschke , in: Merkur 35, 1981, pp. 1092-1098.
• Falk Schwarz: literary talk of the times in the Third Reich, presented in the magazine “Neue Rundschau” , in: Archive for the history of the book system 12, 1972, Sp. 1281–1484 (also Diss. Munich 1970).
• Dieter Wellershoff : From the power of transmission , in: Merkur 45, 1991, pp. 988-990.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Paeschke in the catalog of the German National Library