Heinz Grothe

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Heinz August Wilhelm Grothe (born March 24, 1912 in Berlin ; † February 9, 1990 there ) was a German editor , dramaturge, theater and film critic, narrator, writer and publisher and was accepted into the Nazi -minded Bamberg poet circle in 1938 .

Life

He attended school in Weißensee and then switched to high school in Reinickendorf , where he passed the Abitur. Grothe studied newspaper science from 1931 . During his studies, he completed several months of labor service in order to be able to maintain his studies. Due to the early death of his father, he was forced to take up a job and put his volunteer time behind him in Berlin . From the beginning he specialized in features and culture.

Grothe worked as a lecturer and built up a theater department for the Kanter publishing house in Königsberg . In 1939 he, Hans Franck's son-in-law , was accepted into the Bamberg circle of poets. He served them as a chronicler through his journalistic connections and also represented their National Socialist orientation: As a reviewer , he emphasized the “corrosive Jewish influence” in society before the First World War and in an essay that was (? Re) printed in early 1945 with the title » Dramatic Creation of the Present «he viewed the“ clear development ”that the“ past decade of German cultural life ”had embarked upon with the“ clear elimination of the Jewish elements ”as a“ purification process ”. Grothe wrote of the "subhumanism of the communist-contaminated gangs" in the context of the Kapp Putsch and asked the rhetorical question with regard to German writers who fled National Socialism : "What do the names of some emigrated louts of communist party lines make up?"

In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . Here he worked as a "war reporter " for the propaganda company, initially in southwest France and later reported from the Russian front. He was eventually taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in 1950.

In the Soviet occupation zone in 1947 his signature was the Celebration of Life (1942) on the list of auszusondernden literature set to in the Democratic German Republic still Exit (1937) followed.

From 1954 to 1959 he worked as a television dramaturge at the Sender Freies Berlin . During this time, Grothe campaigned for the literary work of Kurt Kluge, who died in 1940 . He also administered the estate of Hans Franck and Herybert Menzel .

Works (selection)

as an author
  • The front experience. An analysis made from the experience . Goldstein, Berlin 1932.
  • Klabund . Life and work of a poet . Goldstein, Berlin 1933.
  • The celebration of life. A book of friendship for Heinrich Zerkaulen . Huyke, Leipzig 1942.
  • Anecdote . 2nd edition Metzler-Verlag , Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-476-12101-1 (EA Stuttgart 1971).
  • Kurt Kluge . Life and work . Municipal Museum, Braunschweig 1980
as editor
  • The earth is calling! Anthology of young German authors . Kulturpolitischer Verlag, Berlin 1934.
  • We with the spade. Labor Service Stories . Westermann, Braunschweig 1937.
  • Exit. Ballads from German life . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1937.
  • Herybert Menzel . A poetry lesson . Hanseatic VA, Hamburg 1938.
  • Favorite poem . Kanter, Koenigsberg 1939.
  • August Hinrichs on his 60th birthday, April 18, 1939. Voices of the friends . Quelle & Meyer , Leipzig 1939.
  • Young German poetry. An evening sequence . Hanseatic VA, Hamburg 1939.
  • Young sculptors of our time. Sixty pictures . Kanter, Koenigsberg 1940.
  • Pegasus on the move . Illustr. Olaf Gulbransson . Kanter, Königsberg 1942
  • Arno Breker . Sixty pictures . Kanter, Königsberg 1943
  • Hans Meid . Sixty pictures . Kanter, Königsberg 1944
  • The heart gift. Hans Franck on his 75th birthday, July 30, 1954 . Sponholtz, Hanover 1954
  • The new ship of fools . Rascals and anecdotes from four centuries . Steingrüben, Stuttgart 1968.
  • Gloria Victoria. Anecdotes from Prussia's great times . Bechtle, Esslingen 1985, ISBN 3-7628-0405-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Grothe: Critical reflection of an era. The "game with reality" / by Gustav Hillard . In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt vol. 73, no. 235 of August 27, 1939, Sunday supplement p. 10 ( online at ANNO ).
  2. ^ Heinz Grothe: Dramatic creation of the present . In: Deutsche Zeitung in the Netherlands vol. 5, no. 213 of February 5, 1945, p. 2 ( online at Delpher ).
  3. ↑ Heinz Grothe: Soldiers remain soldiers! On Dwinger's new novel »Halfway through«. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt vol. 73, No. 298 of October 29, 1939, Sunday supplement p. 21 ( online at ANNO ).
  4. ^ Hans Grothe: Comrade in the dugout. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt vol. 75, No. 300 of October 29, 1941, o. S. ( online at ANNO ).
  5. ↑ Heinz Grohte: Sunk by a British submarine. The disaster of the French steamer "Guildinec" - conversation with survivors. In: Der Landbote vol. 7th, episode 315 of March 22, 1941, p. 13 ( online at ANNO ).
  6. ↑ Heinz Grothe: Behind the other front: The diary of a Politruk. Hunger and privation among the Soviet army men and women, big and small, in uniform and in civilian clothes. Special report. In: Oberdonau newspaper. Official daily newspaper of the NSDAP / Gau Oberdonau vol. 6 (16), No. 105 * from April 15, 1943, o. S. ( online at ANNO ).
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-g.html
  8. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-g.html

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personal data
SURNAME Grothe, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grothe, Heinz August Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1990
Place of death Berlin