Heinrich Zerkaulen

Heinrich Zerkaulen (born March 2, 1892 in Bonn , † February 13, 1954 in Hofgeismar ) was a German writer and member of the Bamberg circle of poets .

Life

Heinrich Zerkaulen was the son of a shoemaker . After graduating from high school , he studied pharmacy at the universities in Munich and Marburg . At the beginning of the First World War , he volunteered and fought on the Eastern Front . After a serious wound, he worked as a features editor in Düsseldorf and Essen from 1916 . From 1923 he worked as head of the literary department of the municipal exhibition system in Dresden , and from 1931 he was a freelance writer . After 1933 Zerkaulen was one of those authors loyal to the regime who were particularly encouraged by the National Socialist cultural policy. In October 1933 he was one of the 88 writers who pledged a vow of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler . Zerkaulen worked as an editor for the Saxon Nazi daily newspaper Der Freiheitskampf . After 1945, his political attitude brought him a lengthy internment by the American occupation forces , which he described in his last work Between Night and Day. Describes experiences from Camp 94 (1951). Many of his works were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet zone of occupation .

Artistic creation

Heinrich Zerkaulen's work includes novels , short stories , poetry and dramas . After initially composing poems in a popular and patriotic tone, he turned to narrative prose in the twenties , in which he processed the biographies of historical personalities and material from his home in the Rhineland . Zerkaulen belonged to a group of authors who were looking for an alternative world to the decadent industrial world of the cities in the province.

“This literature claims to deliver more than just a fictitious, ideal counter-image to the problem-torn industrial world with its political and social crises: Here the ' folkish reason for life' can be found, from which the wholeness of life and the community of the people against the relativizations and Antagonisms of interests of the liberal-socialist-bourgeois industrial world should be restored to save them. "

- Uwe-K. Ketelsen : Völkisch-National and National Socialist Literature in Germany 1890–1945, Stuttgart 1976, p. 75

The provincial German idyll that Zerkaulen and other authors developed can also be seen as a counter-world to the critical provincial literature of the Weimar period, as represented by Ödön von Horváth , Marieluise Fleißer and Oskar Maria Graf .

During National Socialism , Zerkaulen had great success with his play Jugend von Langemarck and the novel Hörnerklang der Früh , in which he transfigured experiences at the front of the First World War :

"Nationalism, which was almost religious, was able to fully develop from 1933, first in the drama Jugend von Langemarck (Leipzig 1933), which heroized the volunteers of the First World War who fell in blind obedience and thus became one of the most played plays of the Nazi era."

He also published the novel Der goldene Born from 1936 to 1941 . After 1945 he was no longer able to build on his earlier successes.

Works

White asters , Wiesbaden 1912
Hans Heiner's Journey into Life , Mönchen-Gladbach 1913
Blooming wreaths , Wiesbaden 1914
Shrapnel , M. Gladbach 1914
At home and in the field , M. Gladbach 1915
In rank and file , M. Gladbach 1915
Leyer and Schwert , M. Gladbach 1915
Wandlung , M. Gladbach 1916
Dear beautiful lute! , Cologne 1917
All kinds of owls , Saarlouis 1918
Einig Volk , M. Gladbach 1918
The Spitzweg-Gasse , Kempten u. a. 1918
With the fiddle bow , Essen 1919
Wandering Sunday , Kempten 1919
The lighthouse , Würzburg 1920
The little detour , Kempten 1921
Ursula Bittgang , Warendorf 1921
With quill pen and inkblot , Warendorf 1922
Songs from the Rhine , Warendorf 1923
The day in blossoms , Warendorf 1923
Theodor Körner's love spring , Berlin-Lichterfelde 1923
The island of Thule , Warendorf 1924
All about women , Hildesheim 1924
Diamond wreath and swords , Bremen 1927
Nymph Emale , Stuttgart 1928
Die Welt im Winkel , Breslau 1928
The open window , Hellerau 1929
Dresden, Germany's wonderful art city , Dresden 1930
Music on the Rhine , Freiburg i. Br. 1930
Days on Rügen , Dresden 1930
Easter Harbor , Berlin 1931
Max Dreyer , Leipzig 1932
Blessings , Glatz 1932
Bad Elster, seen through artist eyes , Bad Elster 1933
The secret princess , Freiburg im Br. 1933
Horn sound of the morning , Leipzig 1933
Youth from Langemarck , Leipzig 1933
Anna and Sigrid , Berlin 1934 (a new edition of "Osternothafen" 1931)
Der Arbeit die Ehr ' , Berlin-Schöneberg 1934
The cultural policy broadcast of the German newspaper , Leipzig 1934
Melody of the Blood , Leipzig 1934
Saxon royal castles , Bielefeld 1934
Poor buddy Doris , Berlin 1935
Beethoven in Amsterdam , Munich 1935
The German Hygiene Museum Dresden and its cultural significance at home and abroad , Dresden 1935
The ivory figure and other stories , Berlin 1935
Blessed day , Munich 1935 (pathetic war poetry)
The leap out of everyday life , Leipzig 1935
Restlessness and goal , Leipzig 1935
The sea is blue ... , Leipzig 1936
Miniatures in white and green , Dresden 1936
The rider , Leipzig 1936
Miracles on the way , Leipzig 1936
Between two hearts , Berlin a. a. 1936
Journeys with the Kriegsmarine , Leipzig 1937
Heinrich Zerkaulen , Hamburg 1937
War volunteer from the year 14 , Berlin a. a. 1937
The stream of fathers , Leipzig 1937 (a revised new edition of "Die Welt im Winkel", Niederrhein-Roman)
Mr. Lukas from Kronach , Leipzig 1938
The mirror in the heart , Fulda 1938
Brommy , Leipzig 1939
Experience and result , Leipzig 1939
Come with me to Madeira , Dresden 1939
The Dramas , Leipzig 1940
The Cologne-Aachener Land , Düsseldorf 1940
Yesterday's Fools - Today's Heroes! , Berlin 1940
10 years NS-Verlag for the Gau Sachsen , Dresden 1940
Street 50 , Berlin 1941
The day of Eckernförde , Munich 1941
The bridge , Berlin 1942
Home and Wide , Leipzig 1942
The meeting at Teplitz . People and Empire, Prague 1942
The Burgundian wedding , Berlin 1943
The fiery god , Leipzig 1943
The trip to Prague and other stories , Prague 1943
The little fur , Bautzen 1944
Between night and day , Munich 1951

Editing

Wilhelm Hauff : Märchenreich , Munich a. a. 1922
The German Hygiene Museum and the International Hygiene Exhibition, Dresden 1930 , Dresden 1930
Memory of Dresden 1930 , Leipzig 1930
The book Hans Christoph Kaergel , Schweidnitz 1933
Ten poets, ten landscapes , Leipzig 1937 (→ Bamberg Poets' Circle )
Round table at ETA Hoffmann , Leipzig 1939
Poets greet the front , Munich 1940
Germany and its rider , Munich 1943

literature

Literaturlexikon, Ed. Walther Killy , Vol. 12, ISBN 3-570-04682-6 , p. 480 (available in online shops, further references)
Heinrich Zerkaulen. A poetry lesson . Compiled by Heinz Grothe . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1937.
Hermann Wanderscheck : Heinrich Zerkaulen. Deutscher Volksverlag, Munich 1939.
Heinz Grothe: The celebration of life. A book of friendship for Heinrich Zerkaulen. Huyke, Leipzig 1942.
Günther Rühle : Time and Theater. From empire to republic. 3 vols. Propylaea, Berlin 1972ff. ISBN 3-549-05331-2 .
Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 .

estate

Manuscripts, autographs, bequests in the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden . Mscr.Dresd.App.Zerkaulen-Bd.1, Mscr.Dresd.App.Zerkaulen, Mscr.Dresd.App.Zerkaulen-Bd.2, Mscr.Dresd.App.Zerkaulen-Bd.3, To Heinrich Zerkaulen Ottomar Enking 6 March 1940 Mscr.Dresd.Aut.2302.a, Mscr.Dresd.App.Zerkaulen-Bd.4.

Web links

Literature by and about Heinrich Zerkaulen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Printed in: Joseph Wulf : Literature and Poetry in the Third Reich. A documentation. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996, p. 112 f.
^ 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. 680.
^ Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Berlin (ed.): Handbook of the German daily press. Armanen-Verlag, Leipzig 1944 (7th edition), p. 185.
^ Directory of the literature to be discarded. February 1946, p. 175.
↑ (see Uwe-K. Ketelsen, Völkisch-nationale und Nationalozialistische Literatur in Deutschland 1890–1945, Stuttgart 1976, p. 75)
↑ Hans Sarkowicz, Alf Mentzer: Literature in Nazi Germany. A biographical lexicon. Europa-Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-203-82025-0 , quoted from Klee, Kulturlexikon , p. 680.
↑ in Adalbert Stifterpreis-Buch 1942, pp. 71–80

personal data
SURNAME	Kerkaulen, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer of the time of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn
DATE OF DEATH	February 13, 1954
Place of death	Hofgeismar

[1] Printed in: Joseph Wulf : Literature and Poetry in the Third Reich. A documentation. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996, p. 112 f.

[2] 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. 680.

[3] Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Berlin (ed.): Handbook of the German daily press. Armanen-Verlag, Leipzig 1944 (7th edition), p. 185.

[4] Directory of the literature to be discarded. February 1946, p. 175.

[5] (see Uwe-K. Ketelsen, Völkisch-nationale und Nationalozialistische Literatur in Deutschland 1890–1945, Stuttgart 1976, p. 75)

[6] Hans Sarkowicz, Alf Mentzer: Literature in Nazi Germany. A biographical lexicon. Europa-Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-203-82025-0 , quoted from Klee, Kulturlexikon , p. 680.

[7] Adalbert Stifterpreis-Buch 1942, pp. 71–80