Heinrich Anacker

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Heinrich Anacker in May 1940

Heinrich Anacker (born January 29, 1901 in Buchs , Canton Aargau , Switzerland ; † January 14, 1971 in Wasserburg am Bodensee ) was a successful Swiss-German writer who worked for National Socialism .

Life

Heinrich Anacker was the son of from Thuringia originating lithography born -Fabrikbesitzers Georg Heinrich Anacker, his mother Barbara Elizabeth born Huber was German-Swiss. Anacker visited in Aarau Gymnasium ( Old Kantonsschule Aarau ), where he was part of the fraternity "Humanitas". As early as 1921, the same year in which he graduated from high school, his first volume of poetry, Klinge Kleines Frühlinglied, was published by Verlag Sauerländer in Aarau.

Anacker later studied literature in Zurich and Vienna , was a member of the Wandervögel , had first contact with the Nazi movement in 1922 and had been a member of the NSDAP and SA since 1924 . Since 1921, following the success of his first work, Klinge, kleine Frühlinglied, he lived as a freelance writer.

From 1928 Anacker lived permanently in Germany. He was personally acquainted with leading National Socialists like Julius Streicher , who promoted him. Around 1930 Anacker joined the so-called Young Team , a group of authors who wrote for the so-called Third Reich . Anacker received a number of National Socialist awards, such as the half Dietrich Eckart Prize in 1934 (for the choral play SA calls into the people ), in 1936 the NSDAP Art Prize for his complete works and in 1939 the ring of honor for the team front poets in the Nazi war victims' care . Anacker was appointed a member of the cultural council of the Reich Chamber of Literature.

In 1939 Anacker was expatriated from Switzerland at his own request. During the Second World War he worked as a war correspondent in a propaganda company.

On April 24, 1945, Anacker was arrested by American troops and sent to the US internment camp in Ansbach . In the course of the denazification proceedings initiated against him in 1947, he was classified on October 6, 1948 as a minor offense and given 60 days of special work and a 500 DM fine. In front of the Spruchkammer, Anacker declared that he was “a staunch National Socialist until the collapse of the Third Reich, but now determined, after having made a fundamental mistake, to stay away from politics in the future.” But looking at the volume of poems Der golden autumn , in whose poems Schulz (2011) partially “recognizes an astonishing parallelism to positions that were already clear in Anacker’s SA poems”, the poet's declaration “seems more like a concession to the changed political situation than an expression self-critical reflection or even insight. "

On April 27, 1949, Anacker's probationary period was declared expired and he was now assigned to the group of “fellow travelers”.

His paternal legacy enabled him to live and write in Salach and Wasserburg on Lake Constance. He died on January 14, 1971.

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Anacker is considered one of the leading Nazi poets. Even in the Nazi state it was emphasized that he was the first to write poems about the Nazi movement. By the end of the Second World War he published 22 volumes of poetry, seven of which were published between Hitler's so-called seizure of power and the start of the war and between 1939 and 1945. His numerous propagandistic poems often appeared first in the Völkischer Beobachter and later in book form.

Many of the marching songs that were sung in the Hitler Youth and other Nazi organizations came from him. His greatest success was the sentimental, apolitical seaman's song Antje, my blond child . Other songs by him are u. a. Brown is our battle dress (battle song of the SA), England's hour has struck , The torch goes from hand to hand , Do you hear the drum beat? (Song of the Hitler Youth ) and We are the soldiers of the new front .

In his songs, Anacker emphasized the total focus on the authority of Adolf Hitler , for example in the following verses: We will become a people, we are the raw stone - / You, our leader, should be the stone cutter; / The stonemason, who with creative force / redeems the stone from its shape. / Always hit! We keep patiently still / because your strict hand wants to shape us. By the end of the war, Anacker had written more than 100 such “Führer poems”, mostly on behalf of the Propaganda Ministry. In the later years of the war, his poems were increasingly aimed at the soldiers at the front as a means of motivation (e.g. there should be no fear in us , 1943) and the so-called home front.

For the propaganda Christmas ring broadcast in 1941, Anacker wrote a poem with references to the areas of Europe that were then largely occupied by Germany. One of the verses reads: “Home bells ring in Hellas and Flanders, / ring in lonely bunkers on the Neva and Don. / Over the waves, to lonely boats they wander - / Beyond the seas their blissful tone still cheers. "

Anacker also exploited elements of the New Testament message in propaganda, for example from the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus in German Easter 1933 : "We have never yet understood the message deeply - / Because Germany, like the Holy Christian, / has risen shiningly! " (Publication No. 14 of April 4, 1969, page 28).

Many of Anacker 's writings and a book by Nazi literary scholar Paul Gerhardt Dippel with the title Heinrich Anacker , Deutscher Volksverlag (Munich 1937), were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone .

Anacker's work continues to enjoy great popularity in the neo-Nazi scene.

Family grave of Heinrich Anacker (north cemetery in Wasserburg on Lake Constance)

Volumes of poetry

  • Sound little spring song 1921
  • On hiking trails in 1923
  • Sun 1925
  • Ebb and flow 1927
  • Colorful dance. New poems. 1931
  • The drum. SA poems. Rather — Verlag , Munich 1931.
  • The fanfare. Poems of the German uprising. Rather, Munich 1933.
  • Contemplation. New poems. Rather, Munich 1934.
  • Sing, my people! 37 songs by Heinrich Anacker set to music by Erich Wintermeier . Rather, Munich 1935.
  • The structure. Poems. Rather, Munich 1936.
  • Songs from silence and storms. Memories of Rügen. 1938
  • One nation one empire one leader. Poems about Austria's return home. 1938
  • We grow into the kingdom. Poems. 1938
  • Readiness and departure. Poems from the war winter of 1940. 1940
  • Home and Front. Poems from the autumn of 1939. 1940
  • Over the Maas, over the Scheldt and the Rhine! Poems from the campaign in the west. 1940
  • The fanfare. Poems of the German uprising. 1943
  • Good luck, tomorrow! Poems. 1943
  • March through the east. Poems. 1943
  • Golden autumn. Sonnets. 1951
  • Of hatchets, beards and ticks. A contribution to the cultural history of Saxon ore mining. Berlin 1960

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gudrun Wilcke, The Children's and Young People's Literature of National Socialism as an Instrument of Ideological Influencing: Song Texts, Stories and Novels, School Books, Magazines, Stage Works , Lang Verlag 2005, p. 145
  2. ↑ http://www.linsmayer.ch/autoren/A/AnackerHeinrich.html
  3. ↑ http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/gerd.simon/ChrAnacker.pdf
  4. ↑ Verena Schulz: Heinrich Anacker - the "lyrical warrior" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 26.
  5. ↑ http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/gerd.simon/ChrAnacker.pdf
  6. ↑ Verena Schulz: Heinrich Anacker - the "lyrical warrior" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 33.
  7. ↑ Newspaper report archived in: BA, RKK 2705/0001/07, post-war documents, cited. n. Schulz (2011), p. 33.
  8. ↑ Verena Schulz: Heinrich Anacker - the "lyrical warrior" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 35.
  9. ↑ Verena Schulz: Heinrich Anacker - the "lyrical warrior" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 36.
  10. ↑ Verena Schulz: Heinrich Anacker - the "lyrical warrior" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 33f.
  11. ↑ http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/gerd.simon/ChrAnacker.pdf
  12. ↑ Verena Schulz: Heinrich Anacker - the "lyrical warrior" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, pp. 21, 31.
  13. ↑ http://www.linsmayer.ch/autoren/A/AnackerHeinrich.html and http://ingeb.org/Lieder/dertagwa.html
  14. ↑ http://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/schwertgeklirr-und-wogenprall
  15. ↑ Verena Schulz: Heinrich Anacker - the "lyrical warrior" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 29.
  16. ↑ Verena Schulz: Heinrich Anacker - the "lyrical warrior" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 32f.
  17. ^ Heinrich Anacker: Christmas ring broadcast 1941. In: Reichsrundfunk. Year 1941/42, issue 21/22, p. 403.
  18. ^ Jurgen Hillesheim, Jürgen Hillesheim, Elisabeth Michael: Lexicon of National Socialist Poets: Biographies, Analyzes, Bibliographies . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-88479-511-2 , p. 8 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  19. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit.html
  20. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-d.html
  21. ↑ Verena Schulz: Heinrich Anacker - the "lyrical warrior" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, pp. 21, 38.
personal data
SURNAME Anacker, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchs , Aargau
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1971
Place of death Moated castle