Jürgen Eggebrecht

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Jürgen Eggebrecht (born November 17, 1898 in Baben ; † April 19, 1982 in Munich ) was a German writer and editor .

Jürgen Eggebrecht's birthplace

Life

Jürgen Eggebrecht was born as the son of the pastor Gottfried Eggebrecht and his wife Alwine, geb. , Rademacher in Altmark born Baben. He studied law, political science and literature in Halle / Saale, Berlin and Würzburg. In 1925 he received his doctorate. He was friends and a. with Ilse Aichinger , Wolf Dieter Bach, Ingeborg Bachmann , Joseph Breitbach , Günter Eich , Hermann Heimpel , Peter Huchel , Hermann Kesten , Horst Lange , Peter de Mendelssohn , Ernst Penzoldt , Hans Werner Richter , Oskar N. Sahlberg , Oda Schaefer , Herbert Schlueter , Peter Suhrkamp , Franz Tumler , Georg von der Vring , Michael Winter, the National Socialist Gertrud Fussenegger , with Paul Alverdes .

Before the Second World War, Eggebrecht worked as a lecturer at Piper-Verlag Munich and for the DVA in Stuttgart (1928–1933) and made his debut with poems in the anthology of Recent Poetry (1927) edited by Willi Fehse and Klaus Mann . He wrote stories, essays, radio plays and volumes of poetry ( Vogelkoje , Hamburg 1949; Schwalbensturz , Frankfurt am Main 1956; Splitterlicht . Frankfurt 1975; posthumously Weltensaum . Munich 2010). For the high command of the Wehrmacht , he built the front library as a war administrator in World War II until the end of the war. Above all, he was responsible for allocating paper for thousands of titles produced by OKW, in several rows. In the course of the war, the OKW received ever larger paper contingents, which was at the expense of civil publishers and the range book trade; they complained about constant cuts in paper allocation. In this way, Eggebrecht controlled which titles were printed at all and which ended up at the front in mass editions, and which were not; this can be described as "censorship" or not. In any case, the OKW operated its own literary policy. The question of whether and in what way the OKW literary functionaries such as Eggebrecht differentiated themselves in terms of content from the flat Nazi propaganda by the Rosenberg Office or the Party Official Examination Commission for the Protection of National Socialist Literature , PPK, by Philipp Bouhler (until 1943), becomes still in 2002 declared a research desideratum. It is clear that Eggebrecht, like the functionaries of the entire army, declared themselves to be secret resistance figures after 1945 in order to continue their career unhindered.

Then Eggebrecht headed the “Cultural Word” department at Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk , NWDR, later Norddeutscher Rundfunk , NDR, from 1949 to 1959. He was also a member of the Tukan Circle and since 1958 of the PEN Center Germany . In his childhood memories of father's house. In homage to the northern tribes , he poetically and lyrically portrayed his childhood in Baben , Eichstedt , Salzwedel , Osterburg and Stendal .

His estate is in the Monacensia in Munich.

Painting and music were among his preferences, and he also spoke French. Jürgen Eggebrecht was married to the pianist Elfi Eggebrecht, b. Stiehr. Their children are the Egyptologist Arne Eggebrecht (1935-2004), the cellist and baryton player Jörg Eggebrecht (1939-2009), the writer and journalist Harald Eggebrecht (born 1946).

literature

  • Florian Welle: I have been to the future. Life for Literature - Jürgen Eggebrecht 1898–1982. With a foreword by Harald Eggebrecht. Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-86906-096-5 .
  • Martin Wiehle : Altmark personalities. Biographical lexicon of the Altmark, the Elbe-Havel-Land and the Jerichower Land. (= Contributions to the cultural history of the Altmark and its peripheral areas, 5). Dr. Ziethen Verlag, Oschersleben 1999 ISBN 3-932090-61-6

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 15th edition of Degeners "Who is it?" Berlin 1967, p. 369
  2. ↑ Frontbücherei , Deutschlandfunk Kultur , March 11, 2008; in detail Edelgard Bühler, Hans-Eugen Bühler: The front book trade 1939-1945. Organizations, competencies, publishers, books. Saur-de Gruyter 2002, Rep. 2013, at google books visible
  3. ↑ Munich 1971; New edition under the original title Homage to the Northern Tribes. Introduction by Sten Nadolny , Berlin 1998
  4. ↑ The estate contains a review of the Francophone Canadian Gabrielle Roy , Das kleine Wasserhuhn . Monacensia JE M 169
personal data
SURNAME Eggebrecht, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Babe
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1982
Place of death Munich