Heinrich Hauser (writer)

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Heinrich Hauser (born August 27, 1901 in Berlin , † March 25, 1955 in Dießen am Ammersee ) was a German writer , sailor , globetrotter , farmer and photographer .

life and work

Heinrich Hauser was the son of a Berlin pediatrician; after his parents divorced in 1911, he grew up with his mother in Weimar . With the “high school diploma” he entered the naval school in Flensburg - Mürwik as a cadet in 1918 . There he was an eyewitness to the revolutionary events . Then he got briefly caught up in the turmoil of the November events in Hamburg. Back in Thuringia , he became a member of the Maercker Freikorps , which was initially ordered to Weimar to protect the National Assembly . In Halle , Magdeburg and Braunschweig he was involved in the civil war of the Freikorps against the fighters of the workers 'and soldiers ' council. He then worked as an engineering trainee in a steel works in Duisburg- Ruhrort . Hauser had to drop out of engineering studies because of consequential damage after an accident at work. At the beginning of 1920 he was on board the “Iron Flotilla” of Lieutenant Lahs' “Iron Flotilla” for a few months and experienced the end of the Kapp Putsch , with which he sympathized. From 1920 to 1922 Hauser worked in various fields and studied medicine for a few semesters. In the meantime he was temporarily employed as a worker at the blast furnace of the Rheinische Stahlwerke. In the years 1922–1926 Heinrich Hauser was an ordinary seaman and sailor on merchant ships in the Mediterranean, as well as in the Australia and East Asia voyages. He was married five times, including two Jewish women whom he helped to escape from Germany. In Wustrow , Hauser met Hede Zangs, Hedwig Woermann's foster daughter , whom he married shortly afterwards, in the winter of 1922/23 . He had two children. His marriage to Anna Luise, geb. Block, former Duisberg (1896–1982), a daughter of Josef Block , was the daughter of Helene. Huc Hauser emerged from his marriage to Ursula Bier in 1933.

In 1925 Hauser became an employee of the Frankfurter Zeitung . He wrote numerous essays , travel reports and novels . He was particularly concerned with the relationship between people and technology, town and country. He is considered a representative of the New Objectivity and was particularly successful with the audience as a talented narrator in the 1930s. For his second novel, Brackwasser , he received the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize for Literature in 1928 . In the same year his photo report Schwarzes Revier was created on a 6000 kilometer drive through the Ruhr area .

In 1933, Hauser briefly sympathized with National Socialism. By S. Fischer Verlag he demanded shortly after the " seizure of power ", "flying learns Man" his book is a tribute to the highly decorated fighter pilot and Nazi Reich Air Minister Hermann Goering preceded. Hauser's turning away from National Socialism began with Adolf Hitler's dictation that Hindenburg was not buried in his hometown in 1934, as ordered by him in his will, but in Tannenberg. Hauser then shifted his writing activities to neutral topics such as travel reports and industrial reports. He went into exile in the United States in 1939, but his politically unsuspicious books continued to be published in Germany, for example The Last Sailing Ships .

Shortly before Germany's surrender, he published in the USA under the title The German Talks Back , a sensational attempt at that time to delimit “real Germany” from the National Socialist state .

In 1948 Heinrich Hauser returned to Germany and for a few months became editor-in-chief of the Stern magazine, which had just been founded by Henri Nannen .

In his posthumously published science fiction novel Gigant Hirn , which is set in the USA in 1975, a machine is built that is simply called "brain" and is supposed to control all military and civil life. The intelligence of the "brain" becomes independent, however, it becomes a threat because it wants to ensure its own survival and to found an empire on the rule of machines. The scientist Semper Fidelis Lee finally succeeds in preventing the catastrophe.

Heinrich Hauser and Opel

Hauser is known for his involvement with Adam Opel AG both before the war and during the economic miracle . In three independent works as well as other reports and book chapters, Hauser describes automobile production in Rüsselsheim and at the suppliers. In 1936, Am Laufenden Band appeared as a report on the automobile production at Opel, which has been in American ownership ( General Motors ) since 1929 and based on the model there. Opel, a German gateway to the world , the commemorative publication for the 100th birthday of Adam Opel and the 75th anniversary of the Opel plant, appeared in 1939. The following year he published the work Im Kraftfeld von Rüsselsheim (1940). In it he describes the German automotive industry in its pre-war bloom. In Our Fate - The German Industry from 1952 he dedicates a chapter to Opel after the reconstruction. Since the middle of the last decade, Hauser has experienced a renaissance in reception, which was partly due to the crisis at Opel and the parent company GM and which resulted in several publications about the plant as well as new publications of Hauser's works.

Special exhibition

  • 2010/2011: Black Territory. Photographs by Heinrich Hauser. Ruhr Museum Essen (September 27, 2010 to September 4, 2011)

Fonts

  • The twentieth year. (1925) - his first novel
  • Brackish water. (1928; new edition 1957)
  • Peace with machines. 1928.
  • Black territory. (S. Fischer, Berlin 1930; revised new edition 2001) - a Ruhr area report
  • Seven years of my life (1918–1925). In: Uhu . 7th year, issue 1, October 1930, Ullstein Berlin (= 1st article in the series of articles Die Wirrnisse Our Time in CVs ).
  • The last sailing ships. (1930) - Travel report about a trip on the sailing ship Pamir
  • Thunder over the sea. (1931) - novel
    • New edition 2001. Edited and with an afterword by Walter Delabar, Weidle Verlag, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-931135-58-6 .
  • Dirt roads to Chicago. (S. Fischer, Berlin 1931) - Report on a trip to the USA
  • Weather in the east. (1932) - travel report, East Prussia
  • Not yet. (1932) - Narrative Fragments
  • A man learns to fly. (1933) - about the acquisition of the flight ticket
  • Struggle. Story of a youth. (1934) - autobiography
  • Rides and adventures in the caravan. (1935; new edition 2004) - travel report from Germany
  • Men on board. (1936) - short stories
  • All the time. (1936) - Report about automobile production at Opel (1st part of the Opel series)
  • The engineer's escape. (1937) - novella
  • Notre Dame from the waves. (1937) -Nautical novel
  • Opel, a German gateway to the world. (1937) - Festschrift for the 100th birthday of Adam Opel and the 75th anniversary of the Opel factory (2nd part of the Opel series)
  • South-East Europe is Awakened (1938) - travel report
  • Australia. The shy continent (1939) - non-fiction book
  • Battle Against Time (New York 1939, Charles Scribner's Sons) - How long can Hitler last?
  • In the force field of Rüsselsheim. (1940) - Report on the German automotive supplier industry (3rd part of the Opel series)
  • Canada. (1940) - travel report with numerous photos
  • Time what. Death of a Junker. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York 1942
  • The German Talks Back. (New York 1945, Henry Holt) - (Foreword by Hans Morgenthau )
  • My farm on the Mississippi. 1950.
  • Before this steel heart beats. (1951) - Report on engine construction at Opel
  • European subsidiary - Düsseldorf. (1951) - together with Alfred Tritschler
  • Your house has wheels. (1952) - Report on the body shop at Opel
  • The last sailing ships. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1952 (rororo 56) - ship, crew, sea and horizon
  • Our fate - German industry. (1952) - Report on German industry in the post-war period
  • Giant brain. (1958) - Science fiction novel
  • Braking, stopping, getting out, taking photos. (Düsseldorf 2002) - Photographs from the Ruhr area, Louisiana and Paris
  • Ruhr area 1928. Photographs by Heinrich Hauser. (2010) - a weekly calendar for 2011
  • Between two worlds. (2012) - novel. Edited and with an afterword by Stefan Weidle , Weidle Verlag, Bonn, ISBN 978-3-938803-45-5 .

Documentaries (selection)

  • Man of Aran (fragment, 1928. Produced by Heinrich Hauser and Liam O'Flaherty )
  • Windjammer and Janmaaten. The Last Sailing Ships (D 1930), documentary, b / w, silent film
  • Cosmopolitan city in flail years. A report on Chicago (1931, camera and direction).

literature

  • Uwe Schultz:  Hauser, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 117 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Grith Graebner: " Creep under the skin of life." Heinrich Hauser. Life and work. A critical-biographical bibliography of works. Shaker Verlag , Aachen 2001, ISBN 3-8265-9406-1 .
  • Stephan Porombka : Heinrich Hauser's novel "Gigant Hirn". In: Hypertext. To criticize a digital myth. Dissertation. Fink, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7705-3573-1 , pp. 257-274.
  • Mirjam Schubert: Communication structures in Heinrich Hauser's novels (1901–1955). University of Hamburg, Hamburg 2005 (also Mag. Thesis, Univ. Hamburg 2005).
  • Tim Kangro: The world as seen from the steering wheel. Heinrich Hauser - fiction, autobiography and reportage between New Objectivity and seafaring romance. In: Critical Edition. No. 20 ISSN  1617-1357 .
  • Rudolf Arnheim: Timpani Films. In: The world stage . 1932, pp. 185–187 (including positive review of Hauser's Chicago film).
  • Olaf Matthes: Heinrich Hauser, midshipman. In: Olaf Matthes, Ortwin Pelc : People in the Revolution. Hamburg portraits 1918/19. Husum Verlag, Husum 2018, ISBN 978-3-89876-947-1 , pp. 49-52.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This paragraph primarily after: Heinrich Hauser: Kampf. Story of a Youth (Jena 1934)
  2. ↑ Daniele Dell'Agli (ed.): Hans Jürgen von der Wense - force fields and correspondences . Jenior Verlag, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-95978-054-4 , p. 76.
  3. ^ Review of the new edition of Schwarzes Revier Beseelte Technik on Deutschlandfunk from August 9, 2011.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 224.
  5. ↑ Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner : The force field of Rüsselsheim / Opel as an educator: The industrial reports of Heinrich Hauser. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 20, 2004, p. 34.
  6. ↑ Review see Will Vesper
  7. ↑ Grith Graebner: Heinrich Hauser (Aachen 2001, p. 175)
  8. ↑ Filmblatt.de: FilmDokument 13
  9. ↑ newfilmkritik.de
personal data
SURNAME Hauser, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexander Blade
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and photographer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1955
Place of death Dießen am Ammersee