Hermann Stehr

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Hermann Stehr (1911) Stehr's signature
Hermann Stehr (around 1930) Photo: Herbert Heimann, Görlitz

Hermann Stehr (born February 16, 1864 in Habelschwerdt ; † September 11, 1940 in Schreiberhau ) was a German writer from the County of Glatz .

Life

Hermann Stehr was born the son of a poor saddler and worked as a primary school teacher from 1887. As a result of publications critical of the church, he was repeatedly transferred to the most remote villages of the County of Glatz, most recently to the Waldenburger Bergland to Dittersbach near Waldenburg . From 1915 he was a freelance writer based in Warmbrunn (Mandelhaus). The publication of his bestseller “Der Heiligenhof” in 1918 freed him from his financial hardships and he rose to become a celebrated poet.

During the founding phase of the Weimar Republic , Stehr appeared as an election speaker for the German Democratic Party for his friend Walther Rathenau .

Restored grave of Hermann Stehr on the Floriansberg in Habelschwerdt (2010)

Stehr settled in the idyllic Schreiberhau (Faberhaus) in 1926 with the financial support of his patron, the textile entrepreneur Max Pinkus . In 1926 he was a founding member of the Prussian Poet Academy , a subdivision of the Prussian Academy of Arts . Then he approached the blood-and-soil ideology .

He died in 1940 in Schreiberhau at the age of 76 and was buried on the Florianberg in Habelschwerdter. His grave, which could not be located in the meantime, was found again in 2007 on the Florianberg in the old place. It was untouched, only the superstructures had been removed and gone. In a laborious process, which was completed in 2009, former and current residents restored the grave.

In Wangen im Allgäu there was a Hermann-Stehr-Archive , which could come up with over 1000 unprinted poems as well as the preparatory work for 12 unprinted novels (today German Literature Archive Marbach ). The partial estate of Hermann Stehr is in the manuscript department of the Dortmund City and State Library .

Hermann Stehr and National Socialism

After the seizure of the Nazis it further belonged to the political cleaned to Academy of seal. After the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in August 1934, Stehr was one of the signatories of the call by cultural workers for a referendum on the merging of the office of Reich President and Reich Chancellor in the person of Hitler. He also wrote a justification for legalizing the murders on the occasion of the Röhm Putsch in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . The National Socialist cultural establishment celebrated Stehr as a “herald of the German soul” and praised him for his “folk connection with earth”. In 1935 Stehr was admitted to the Reichskultursenat, for which Goebbels personally congratulated him.

When, on the other hand, Stehr had been molested by the SA-Obergruppenführer and Breslau Police President Edmund Heines at the celebration of his 70th birthday , he wrote to Adolf Hitler personally and asked for Heines' immediate removal; On the occasion of his 75th birthday, Stehr then gave a speech in which he is said to have expressed himself as follows: "If the new Germany expresses itself in the brown shirt, the march, the conformity, does not awaken the inner values ​​of the people, the words of the poets, disregarding the spirit of old German history, I am not with you. But I hope with all my heart that a new future will dawn for Germany. "

Quotes

About Adolf Hitler (1938):

  • Our teeth should fall out and our tongues wither in our mouths if we don't shout an enthusiastic yes to the Fiihrer and his deeds on April 10th.

About the Silesian:

  • The Silesian lies down to sleep like a Vlame, jumps into the day like a daring Franconian, works like a Pole and loses himself, led by a sentimental Bohemian or Wenden on the left, by a dreamy Thuringian on the right, through the evening into the Night. The character of the Silesians is like a popular assembly that debates excitedly but does not pass a resolution ...

Honors and their withdrawal

Works

  • For life and death . Two stories. Berlin, S. Fischer , 1898
  • The shingle maker . Novella. Berlin, Fischer, 1899 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • Leonore Griebel . Novel. Berlin, Fischer, 1900 ( edition from 1921 online  - Internet Archive )
  • The last child . Novella. Berlin, Fischer 1903
  • Meta Konegen . Drama in five acts. Berlin, Fischer, 1904
  • The buried god . Novel. Berlin, Fischer, 1905 ( 3rd edition online  - Internet Archive )
  • Three nights . Novel. Berlin, Fischer, 1909
  • Stories from the almond house . Berlin, Fischer, 1913
  • The sunset . Novellas. Berlin, Fischer, 1916
  • The Heiligenhof . 2 volumes. Berlin, Fischer, 1918
  • Life book . Poems from two decades. Berlin, Fischer, 1920
  • The crows . Novellas. Berlin, Fischer 1921
  • Wendelin Heinelt . A fairy tale. Trier, Friedrich Lintz Verlag 1923
  • The shadow . Novella. Chemnitz, Society of Book Friends 1924
  • Peter Brindeisener . Novel. Trier, Friedr. Lintz Verlag, 1924
  • Hanns Fechner : People I painted . With 17 illustrations after own works. Preface by Hermann Stehr. (About Wilhelm Raabe , Anton von Werner , Theodor Fontane , Gerhart Hauptmann , Wilhelm Bölsche and others). Berlin, Rembrandt-Verlag 1927
  • The violin maker . A story. Berlin, Horen-Verlag 1926
  • The engraver . A story. Berlin, German Book Community 1927
  • Nathanael Maechler . Novel. Berlin-Grunewald, Horen-Verlag 1929
  • The house to the water maids . Paul List Verlag, Leipzig 1929
  • The fairy tale of the German heart . Three stories. Paul List Verlag, Leipzig 1929
  • Myths and Moravia . Paul List Verlag, Leipzig 1929 (also volume 3 of the collected works in 9 volumes Lintz, Trier 1924)
  • Master Cajetan . Berlin, Horen-Verlag 1931
  • About outer and inner life . Horen-Verlag, Leipzig and Berlin 1931
  • At the door of the afterlife . Two novels. Albert Langen / Georg Müller , Munich 1932
  • The offspring . Paul List Verlag, Leipzig 1933 (2nd volume of the trilogy of novels "The Maechler family, novel of a German family")
  • Gudnatz . Insel-Bücherei 67/2, Insel-Verlag , Leipzig 1934
  • The hourglass . Speeches / writings / diaries. Paul List Verlag, Leipzig 1936
  • The middle garden. Selected early and recent poems . Paul List Verlag, Leipzig 1936
  • Silesia . Bielefeld, Velhagen & Klasing 1937 (introduction to an illustrated book)
  • The sky key. A story between heaven and earth . Paul List Verlag, Leipzig 1939
  • Of man and God. Words of the poet . Selected by Emil Freitag, Paul List, Leipzig 1939
  • Above grace, below right The sex of the Maechler. Novel of a German family. Leipzig, List 1944 (new version)
  • Damian or Das große Schermesser List, Leipzig (1944) “The Sex of the Maechler Volume 3”.
  • Cajetan novella. Paul List Verlag, Leipzig 1944, special edition, front book trade edition for the Wehrmacht. Produced on behalf of the OKW by the Wehrmacht propaganda group at the Wehrmacht commander-in-chief in Norway. Printed in Oslo. (First 1931)
  • Hermann Stehr. Walter Rathenau. Conversations about the times . History of friendship in letters and documents. Edited by Ursula Meridies-Stehr. Paul List, Leipzig and Munich 1946
  • The almond house . List, Munich 1953
  • Hermann Stehr Schlesier, German, European . A memorial book for the poet's 100th birthday. Holzner Verlag, Würzburg, 1964

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The cultural 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. 587.
  • Helmut Wocke. Hermann Stehr and his work: a commitment . Berlin: W. Meister [1922]
  • Wilhelm Meridies, ed. Hermann Stehr: his work and his world , ed. by Wilhelm Meridies. Habelschwerdt: Franke 1924
  • Wolfgang Baumgart: Hermann Stehr. 3rd edition Breslau: Gauverl.-NS.-Schlesien 1943.
  • Hermann Böschenstein: Hermann Stehr. Introduction to the mood of his work. Breslau: Priebatsch 1935. (= language and culture of the Germanic-Romanic peoples; series B, Germanistic series; 15)
  • Ulrich Erdmann: From Naturalism to National Socialism? Contemporary-biographical studies on Max Halbe, Gerhart Hauptmann, Johannes Schlaf and Hermann Stehr. With unknown personal testimonials. Frankfurt am Main u. a .: Lang 1997. ISBN 3-631-30907-4
  • Emil Friday: Hermann Stehr. Content and form of his poetry. Groningen u. a .: Wolters 1936.
  • Martin Krebs: Hermann Stehr. His work in the context of the religious consciousness of the present. Limburg: Limburger Vereindr. 1932.
  • Stephan Lobe: History of the impact of Hermann Stehr and his work. Cologne: Univ. Diss. 1976.
  • Wilhelm Meridies: Hermann Stehr. His life and work. Würzburg: Holzner 1964. (First edition 1924 = Hermann Stehr: his work and his world)
  • Hans Moritz Meyer: The supernatural in Hermann Stehr. Reprint d. Edition Berlin 1936. Nendeln / Liechtenstein: Kraus 1967.
  • Werner Milch: Hermann Stehr. His poetic world and its problems. Berlin: Goldstein 1934.
  • Erich Mühle: Hermann Stehr. A contemporary German seeker of God. Stuttgart: Truckenmüller 1937. (= German being; 4/5)
  • Fritz Richter: Hermann Stehr Bibliography. 1898-1964. Würzburg: Holzner 1965.
  • Walter Schlusnus: The question of polarity and unity in Hermann Stehr's work. Königsberg: Univ. Diss. 1938.
  • Wilhelm Meridies (ed.): Ways to Hermann Stehr. Festschrift of the Hermann Stehr Archive for the 100th birthday of the poet . Würzburg: Holzner 1964.
  • Hermann Stehr & Walther Rathenau: Dialogue about the times. History of friendship in letters and documents , ed. by Ursula Meridies-Stehr. Leipzig: P. List [1916]
  • Peter Sprengel: Hermann and Hedwig Stehr in correspondence with Gerhart and Margarete Hauptmann . Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2008
  • Wojciech Kunicki (Ed.): ... and turns my fear into anger. Leipzig University Press, 2009
  • Joseph Wittig : Hermann Stehr's seventies birthday , Guda Obend 1935
  • Hans-Windekilde Jannasch : Hermann Stehr. In: Spätlese. Encounters with contemporaries, Göttingen 1973, pp. 22–32.

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Stehr  - sources and full texts
Commons : Hermann Stehr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 587.
  2. ↑ a b c d website of the city of Münster , accessed on January 17, 2012.
  3. ^ Walter A. Reichart: Hermann Stehr's friendship with Gerhart Hauptmann. Some personal memories. In: Fritz Richter (Ed.): Hermann Stehr. Silesian, German, European. A commemorative book for the 100th birthday of the poet (East German contributions from the Göttinger Arbeitskreis, vol. 28), pp. 181–182.
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information at ostweh.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ostweh.de
  5. ^ Resident application - remembering instead of extinguishing MünsterscheZeitung.de September 5, 2012, accessed on October 28, 2013; Decision of the meeting of the main committee on Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. District town Steinfurt, September 20, 2012 (PDF; 11 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Stehr, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Writer of German naturalism
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Habelschwerdt , District of Habelschwerdt , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1940
Place of death Oberschreiberhau , Giant Mountains, Silesia