Heinrich Berl

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Heinrich Berl (from 1919 the pseudonym of Heinrich Lott ) (born September 2, 1896 in Baden-Baden , † April 3, 1953 ibid) was a German writer, musicologist and journalist.

Life

His mother was Josefine (* 1875 in Marlen ; † 1935 in Offenburg) and his sister Irmgard Lott (* 1905 in Offenburg, ∞ Schäfer). As a child, the toes of his left foot were cut off. 1907–1911 he attended the secondary school in Offenburg and from 1911–1914 the local commercial school there, while at the same time completing a commercial apprenticeship in a factory for cooking stoves and cabinets. After the war he attended lectures at the University of Munich until illness forced him to return to Offenburg. He looked for relaxation with relatives in Basel, where he studied anthroposophy at the Goetheanum .

In 1921 he married Frieda (also called Friedel, née Kassewitz (1896–1950)), with whom he had a daughter. The family spent a lot of time with Alfred Döblin .

Although not a Jew, he was close to Zionism and enjoyed the esteem of Martin Buber . In the 1920s he published several articles on Judaism and music in Der Jude (1916–1928) and the Vienna Zionist magazine Menorah . When his book was published in 1926, which borrowed its title from Wagner's pamphlet Das Judenthum in der Musik , Berl continued the magazine debate, took the Zionist position against Wagner and tried to re-establish a Jewish musical tradition by introducing the "orientalism" of Jewish music as emphasized their special quality, as can be found especially with Gustav Mahler . This is also a main representative of the current "Asian music crisis". The irritating script met with a great deal of attention and approval among Jewish participants. Arno Nadel , Paul Nettl and Max Brod took part in the discussion .

Berl became managing director of the Society for Spiritual Development , founded in Karlsruhe in 1924 , which held lectures, conferences and, in July 1930, the Badische Heimattage . 1931–1933 he ran the Kairos publishing house .

He learned with concern about organized crime in America and Russia (possibly the state apparatus there, according to reports from Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin ). In 1931 he brought out The Coming Up of the Fifth Class on the Sociology of Criminality , and as a positive addition The Men's Movement: an anti-feminist manifesto , as a fight against the feminized man, as he had previously reported to Leopold Ziegler . In 1932 the fight against red Berlin or Berlin an underworld residence followed .

When the Society for Spiritual Development was banned in 1933 after the National Socialists came to power and he had to give up his music lectureship in Karlsruhe, he retired to Baden-Baden. In 1938/39 the Reichsschrifttumskammer deleted him from their lists because of his Jewish wife.

In the summer of 1945, he and Otto Flake transformed the commission that was supposed to clean up Baden-Baden's bookshops and libraries into a cultural council. In 1948, nine years late, he published the biography of Napoleon III. Democracy and dictatorship . He was a founding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

literature

  • Ulrich Weber: Berl, Heinrich , in: Badische Biographien , New Series, Volume 1. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, pp. 44–46 ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Literature Lexicon
  2. ↑ http://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/kgl_biographien/116135573/Berl+Heinrich
  3. ↑ Julia Spinola: On the power to build whole worlds with music. In: FAZ.net . July 7, 2010, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.digitalisiertedrucke.de
  5. ↑ Menorah , Jewish family sheet for science / art and literature (1923–1932) http://www.uibk.ac.at/germanistik/menorah/
  6. ↑ http://1848.ub.uni-ffm.de/freimann/content/titleinfo/900709
  7. ↑ http://m.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buehne-und-konzert/150-jahre-gustav-mahler-von-der-kraft-mit-musik-ganze-welten-aufbauen-11010909.html
  8. ↑ Jewish music ?: External images, self-images ; P. 23
  9. ↑ Judaism, anti-Semitism and German-language literature from the First World War ; Pp. 243, 244
  10. ↑ Letters and Documents
  11. ^ Achim Reimer: City Between Two Democracies: Baden-Baden From 1930 to 1950 ; P. 274
  12. ↑ LITERATURE: Baden-Baden takes off its hat . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1949 ( online - 2 June 1949 ).
personal data
SURNAME Berl, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lott, Heinrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, musicologist, journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1953
Place of death Baden-Baden