Hjalmar Kutzleb

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Hjalmar Kutzleb (actually Hilmar Hermann Kutzleb ; * December 23, 1885 in Siebleben , † April 19, 1959 in Celle ) was a German writer and educator .

Life

Kutzleb studied philosophy , German , history and geography in Leipzig and Marburg . After completing his studies in 1909, he taught at grammar schools in Weilburg , Guben , Berlin , Finsterwalde and, from 1919, in Minden . In 1935 he was appointed professor of history at the college for teacher training in Weilburg, where he worked with interruptions after the re-establishment until 1949.

During his studies in Leipzig, Kutzleb became a member of the Alt-Wandervogel and in 1905 took over the management of the Alt-Wandervogel for Saxony and Silesia. In 1910 he joined the newly founded Jung-Wandervogel . His song We want to drive out to land, composed in 1911 under the pseudonym Horant (set to music by Kurt von Burkersroda), which describes the romantic search for the blue flower , is considered the best-known song of the Wandervogel movement .

During his studies, Kutzleb wrote literary texts, initially primarily for and about the Wandervogel movement. When he took up his teaching post in Minden in 1919, the main phase of his literary work began, which lasted until his death. His work, more than 60 novels, short stories and non-fiction books, mainly includes "books that deal with prehistoric-archaeological topics and anecdotally tangible events and résumés from medieval and modern regional history" and is characterized by "Germanizing national educational tendencies". During the time of National Socialism , Kutzleb's works enjoyed a positive reception, in 1936/37 his novel Ein Paar Reiterstiefel was awarded second prize in the Hans Schemm Prize for German youth literature, which was awarded for the first time ; In the reasoning of the jury, it was emphasized that the book "shows German people in action and combat" and "(interspersed) with some roguish pranks". Fritz W. Franzmeyer sees clear anti-Semitic statements in Kutzleb's work . While the rejection of women's emancipation and the republic developed out of the narrative, so Franzmeyer, Kutzleb's anti-Semitic attacks were planted as set pieces in many works without any dramaturgical necessity.

Awards

  • 1936/37: Second prize at the Hans Schemm Prize for the German youth literature for a pair of riding boots

Works (selection)

  • Land driver book. Poems (1921: illustrated by A. Paul Weber )
  • The contemporary seen through the eyes of an old wandering bird (1922; illustrated by A. Paul Weber)
  • The sons of the white tanner (1925; later editions illustrated by A. Paul Weber)
  • The High Guard. Time Novel (1927)
  • Stone ax and megalithic grave. Germany in prehistory (1929)
  • Murder of the Future (1929; illustrated by A. Paul Weber )
  • School and education. Collection of materials for popular work (1931)
  • Recovery house. Sanatorium novel (1932)
  • Morning air in Schilda. Little Town Novel (1933)
  • Thor's hammer. Stage play in one prelude and five acts (1933)
  • The first German. Roman Hermanns des Cheruskers (1934)
  • Duke stargazer. Novel (1935)
  • Spear fighting and hunting magic. Stories from Prehistory in Germany (1935)
  • Dirk Winland driver. Youth book (1936; illustrated by Adolf Otto Koeppen )
  • A pair of riding boots or The Battle of Minden (1936)
  • The eternally foolish heart. Stories (1937)
  • The Rape of the Holy Hammer (1937)
  • Master Johann Dietz. The adventurous field scorer and barber (1938; illustrated by A. Paul Weber)
  • The last rifle. Novel (1938)
  • The Teufelsmüller. Two Kinds of Fate (1939)
  • Grimmenstein. Novel (1939)
  • Contemporary Linsenbarth (1940)
  • Fritz Vorchtenit. The Story of a Youth (1941)
  • Pentecostal willow. Novel (1942)
  • The ride to Ohrdruf (1943)
  • Ferdinand Bittendübel's adventurous journey (1943)
  • Rabenschanz (1949)
  • The Kesselbacher Bridal Run. Narrative (1950)
  • The gap in the family tree or Creutzburg with the chip. A humorous novel (1953)
  • Into Blue Monday (1954)

Secondary literature

  • Fritz W. Franzmeyer: Hjalmar Kutzleb (1885–1959), Minden native writer, social critic , anti-Semite . In literature in Westphalia 8 . Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2006. ISBN 3-89528-557-9 . Pp. 101-132.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Kindt: Documentation of the youth movement . Volume II: The Wandervogelzeit. Sources for the German youth movement from 1896 to 1919. Diederichs, Düsseldorf 1968. p. 1061
  2. ^ Gerhard Ziemer, Hans Wolf: Wandering bird and free German youth . Voggenreiter Verlag, Bad Godesberg 1961. p. 505
  3. ↑ Walther Killy : Literature Lexicon . Article Hjalmar Kutzleb
  4. ↑ quoted by Petra Josting: The youth literacy Battle of National Socialist Teachers Association . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1995. ISBN 3-487-09967-5 , p. 235
  5. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt of February 17, 2007: "Rightly controversial and forgotten / The Mindener Heimat Dichter Hjalmar Kutzleb in the mirror of recent research", article about the Franzmeyer publication , stored at hiergeblieben.de, accessed on July 27, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Kutzleb, Hjalmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horant (pseudonym); Kutzleb, Hilmar Hermann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Seven lives
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1959
Place of death Celle