Henndorf district

Landhaus Wiesmühl (2004)

The Henndorfer Kreis was a loose literary association around the German writer Carl Zuckmayer . It was named after its center in Henndorf am Wallersee near Salzburg in Austria.

Members of the Henndorfer Circle

Members of the Henndorfer Kreis included:

History of the Henndorfer Kreis

In 1926, Zuckmayer acquired the "Wiesmühl" country house in Henndorf and used it as a summer retreat , while he remained professionally anchored in Berlin . Even during this time, numerous important personalities from the German-speaking literary and theater scene met here. Some artists lived and worked for a long time with the Zuckmayer family. Initially, the focus was on working among like-minded people in the Wiesmühl and the low cost of living there for the artists; later, however, the escape from the National Socialist dictatorship came to the fore.

However, not all members of the circle were dependent on Zuckmayer's support; many financially better off artists had their own properties in the Salzburg area. When Zuckmayer was barely able to work in Germany after the Nazi " seizure of power " in 1933, his beloved Wiesmühl became more and more the center of his life before he and his family had to emigrate to the United States via Switzerland after the "Anschluss" of Austria in 1938 . This also ended the Henndorfer Kreis.

It is noticeable that, despite Zuckmayer's anti-militarist stance and his expulsion by the National Socialists, alongside Nazi opponents such as Franz Theodor Csokor, Stefan Zweig and Ödön von Horváth the group also included so-called collaborators , e.g. B. Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss and Richard Billinger, who also enjoyed Zuckmayer's hospitality.

literature

Christian Strasser : Carl Zuckmayer - German artist in exile in Salzburg 1933–1938 . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1996
Carl Zuckmayer: Henndorfer Pastorale (1970). Residenz Verlag / Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten / Salzburg 2004

Individual evidence

↑ “Some of my personal and literary friends, such as Franz Theodor Csokor, Ödön von Horvath, Dr. Albrecht Joseph or the Darmstadt poet Hans Schiebelhuth lived and worked for weeks, even months, in our little guest house or in the nearby Mayr inn. "Carl Zuckmayer: As if it were a piece of me , S. Fischer 1966, p. 61.

[1] “Some of my personal and literary friends, such as Franz Theodor Csokor, Ödön von Horvath, Dr. Albrecht Joseph or the Darmstadt poet Hans Schiebelhuth lived and worked for weeks, even months, in our little guest house or in the nearby Mayr inn. "Carl Zuckmayer: As if it were a piece of me , S. Fischer 1966, p. 61.