Hans Watzlik

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Hans Watzlik (1944)
Watzlik Chapel in Tremmelhausen
Hans Watzlik's death board at the so-called Watzlik Chapel in Tremmelhausen

Hans Watzlik (born December 16, 1879 in Unterhaid , Austria-Hungary , † November 24, 1948 in Tremmelhausen ) was a German-Bohemian writer.

Life

Hans Watzlik - son of a postmaster - spent his childhood in his father's place of work in the Bohemian Forest and near Brüx . He then attended the Latin school and the teacher training college in Budweis and studied in Prague. In 1899 Watzlik became a teacher in Andreasberg in the Bohemian Forest . In 1901 he was a co-founder of the Hochwald Ferialverein , the tradition of which is continued today by the Old Prager Landsmannschaft Böhmerwald zu Linz . In 1906 he was transferred to Neuern .

Since 1921 Hans Watzlik was based in Neuern as a freelance writer . He published frequently in the Völkischer Beobachter and edited the völkisch magazine Der Ackermann aus Böhmen . He became the administrator of the Sudeten German Party and temporarily fled to Germany during the Sudeten crisis in autumn 1938. Watzlik had been a member of the NSDAP since 1938 .

At the time of National Socialism , Watzlik was considered politically reliable and artistically valuable. After the end of the Second World War , Watzlik appears on the list of literature to be sorted out published by the German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone with two works, on the list of banned authors and books published by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education with all of his works.

In 1946, after fourteen months in prison, Watzlik was expelled from Czechoslovakia by court order . He spent his last years at Gut Tremmelhausen near Regensburg.

Watzlik memorial stone in Tremmelhausen

Awards and honors

Memberships

  • Association of Germans in Bohemia
  • Adalbert Stifter Society (from 1917)
  • National Association of German Writers; from 1932 member of its extended board
  • Sudeten German Party ; Office manager 1936
  • Reichsschrifttumskammer
  • Pennal connection "College of Old Houses of the Prager Quercus", after the suspension of the Pennal connection "Prager Quercus" in 1887, Pennal connection "Pädagogia Prachatitz", "Akademische Landsmannschaft Bohemian Forest".

Works (selection)

Novels

  • The Alp (1914)
  • Phoenix (1916)
  • O Bohemia! (1917)
  • From the wild root (1920)
  • Fuxloh (1922)
  • About the Word of God (1926)
  • The luck of dry shrubs (1927)
  • The Fraulein von Rauchegg (1929)
  • The pastor of Dornloh (1930)
  • The Leturn Hut . People's Association of Book Friends , Berlin (1932)
  • The Devil Poaches (1933)
  • The Coronation Opera (1935)
  • The withdrawal of the three hundred (1936)
  • The Master of Regensburg (1939; about Albrecht Altdorfer )
  • The Bärentobler (1941)
  • An Impromptu Summer (1944)
  • The Cursed (1957)

Novella

  • The romantic journey of Mr. Carl Maria von Weber (1932). New edition under the title Romantic Symphony (1956)

stories

  • In the Osser's Ring (1913)
  • The Christmas Eve of the Animals (after 1913)
  • Stilzel, the goblin of the Bohemian Forest (1926)
  • Northern Lights (1926)
  • The wild Eisengrein (1927)
  • Faust in the Bohemian Forest (1930)
  • Stilzel and the Mühlknecht (1938)
  • Hillbilly (1941)
  • Bavarian Tales (1944)
  • Strange Events from the Old Time (1962)
  • The wooden house

fairy tale

  • Ridibunz (1927)
  • The giant Burlebauz (1931)

Legends

  • St. Gunter in the Wilderness (1926)
  • Bohemian Forest Legends (1929)

Poems

  • To New Stars (1919)
  • The Flaming Garden (1921)
  • Ballads (1938)

Poems and stories

  • From German Bohemian Earth (1915)
  • The Adventures of Florian Regenbogner (1919)
  • My Wuldaland (1925)

Youth books

  • Erdmut (1935)
  • The boys from Geyerflur (1937)

play

  • The Saint Martini House (1925)

libretto

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Kosglich, Václav Maidl (Ed.): Hans Watzlik, a Nazi poet? Arco, Wuppertal 2006, ISBN 978-3-938375-09-9 , p. 238.
  2. ↑ Harald Raab: The home poet who betrays his home. Literature-historical studies are now available on Hans Watzlik as a “Nazi poet” , review, in Mittelbayerische Zeitung , January 27, 2007
  3. ^ Buddrus, Michael (2003). Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Part 1 . Munich: KG Saur. P. 106 f.
  4. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out. Berlin: Zentralverlag, 1946.
  5. ^ Austrian Federal Ministry for Education (ed.) (1946). List of blocked authors and books. Relevant for bookshops and libraries . Vienna: Ueberreuter. P. 62.
  6. ^ "Hans-Watzlik-Hain" in RegioWiki Niederbayern, at regiowiki.pnp.de
  7. ↑ Google Maps. In: Google Maps. Retrieved August 31, 2016 .
  8. ↑ With cap, ribbon and feather . Aula-Verlag, undated, p. 119.
  9. ↑ Quotation: "His serious and humorous novels, legends, fairy tales and stories full of grotesque-enigmatic fantasy and baroque linguistic power draw mainly from folk, landscape and history of the Bohemian Forest"
personal data
SURNAME Watzlik, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterhaid , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1948
Place of death Tremmelhausen