Heinrich Eckmann

Heinrich Eckmann (born August 18, 1893 in Hohenwestedt , Holstein ; † May 2, 1940 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Heinrich Eckmann was the son of a nursery owner . He initially attended a private school in his hometown Hohenwestedt and then the lower and upper secondary school of a secondary school in Neumünster . He then completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in Rellingen . Years of traveling followed , during which he u. a. worked in nurseries in Blankenburg (Harz) and in Biesenthal , Brandenburg , and attended the higher gardening college in Köstritz . When the First World War broke out , Eckmann volunteered for the infantry . Later he switched to the “Marburger Jäger” , with whom he fought on the Western Front . In May 1915, he fell during the Battle of Neuve-Chapelle in British captivity . He spent four years as a prisoner in Wales , where he worked as a farm, forest and construction worker, and another year as a dock worker in Le Havre . He was released in December 1919.

After returning home, Eckmann worked as a gardener again. He also began writing literary texts. Eckmann was a member of the NSDAP before 1933 ; After the National Socialist “ seizure of power ” in 1933, he was increasingly active in cultural and propaganda work for the new regime; In this context, he traveled abroad to Hungary , Great Britain , Denmark , Romania and Belgium .

Heinrich Eckmann was the author of novels , short stories and poems , using both High German and Low German . His work is shaped by the author's National Socialist sentiments. With his novel Der Stein im Acker , published in 1937 , which was reprinted numerous times up until the Second World War , Eckmann created one of the most successful works of so-called blood-and-soil literature .

Heinrich Eckmann was awarded the Schleswig-Holstein Province Literature Prize in 1936 and the People's Prize for German Poetry and the City of Braunschweig's Poet Prize in 1937 .

After the end of World War II, Eckmann's writings Soldiers, Comrades (Winkler, Darmstadt 1938) and Der Stein im Acker (Westermann, Braunschweig 1944) were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone . In the GDR , this list was followed by his Das blooming Leben (Westermann, Braunschweig 1939).

Heinrich-Eckmann-Strasse still exists in Hohenwestedt to this day; Until 1990, today's Brothers Grimm School in Rellingen was called "Heinrich Eckmann School".

Fonts in the standard German language

• The way into the blue , Hamburg 1924
• House in Flowers , Hamburg 1925
• The woman and the mother , Itzehoe (Holstein) 1927
• The Queen , Itzehoe 1928
• Eira and the prisoner , Braunschweig [u. a.] 1935
• Prisoners in England , Leipzig 1936
• The red cat , Braunschweig [u. a.] 1936
• The distant string game , Jena 1937
• The stone in the field , Braunschweig [u. a.] 1937
• Colorful cottage garden , Leipzig 1938
• The blooming life , Braunschweig [u. a.] 1939
• Greten , Braunschweig 1942

Writings in Low German

• De Lebensweg , Verden / Aller 1922
• Twee Minschen , Hamburg 1924
• Toslaten Döern , Hamburg 1926

Web links

• Heinrich Eckmann in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
• Article about Eckmann in the "Lexicon of National Socialist Poets" (Google Books)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-e.html
2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-e.html