Herbert Burgmüller

Herbert Burgmüller (born September 4, 1913 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † April 28, 1970 in Nuremberg ) was a German writer .

Live and act

After Herbert Burgsmüller trained as a librarian had graduated, studied it literary history at the University of Vienna . At times he maintained contact with the circle around the journal Resistance , published by the national Bolshevik Ernst Niekisch , which was banned in 1934. Burgmüller stayed in Austria during the following years . During this time he wrote essays on cultural-political topics and in 1936 published the literary magazine Das Silberboot in Salzburg . The story Gang in den Herbst , published in 1938, was disapproved by the literary criticism of the Third Reich because of its pessimistic attitude; otherwise Burgmüller remained unmolested. From 1938 to 1943 he found a job as a librarian at the city library of his hometown Mülheim an der Ruhr. The local mayor, Edwin Hasenjaeger , had given him this position against resistance from the local NSDAP district leadership. Burgmüller was listed on Goebbels ' list of approved film authors in 1944 .

After the end of the Second World War , Burgmüller worked from 1945 to 1946 at the Düsseldorf City Theater and then until 1948 co-editor of the Munich literary magazine Die Fähre , which u. a. Published texts by exiled authors such as Hermann Broch and Robert Musil and by Hans Henny Jahnn , who was suppressed between 1933 and 1945 . He lived in Ottobrunn near Munich and Mülheim an der Ruhr .

In addition to his journalistic work, Herbert Burgmüller was the author of narrative works and film scripts . He had been a member of the German PEN Center since 1949 , of which he was Secretary General from 1953.

Works

Walk into autumn , Berlin 1938
The muses are starving. A portrait of Albert Lortzing's life , Berlin 1955

Editing

To clarify the terms , Munich 1947
German word at this time , Munich 1954

Translations

Hoffman Birney : Tu'kwi, the little medicine man , Stuttgart 1938

swell

City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, Herbert Burgmüller personal file (stock 1210)
City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, Hasenjaeger estate (holdings 1615)

Individual evidence

↑ Klee, Ernst .: Cultural encyclopedia for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 . 1st edition. Fischer, S, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , pp. 79 .

personal data
SURNAME	Burgmüller, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 4, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH	April 28, 1970
Place of death	Nuremberg

[1] Klee, Ernst .: Cultural encyclopedia for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 . 1st edition. Fischer, S, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , pp. 79 .