Johannes Heinrich Braach

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Johannes Heinrich Braach (born August 19, 1887 in Trier ; † July 9, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main ), pseudonym: Jochen Knipp , was a German writer , poet , journalist , war correspondent , editor , music critic , musicologist and director . He was the husband of the author Mile Braach and the father of the author Bergit Forchhammer .

education

Braach studied music , singing and German at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin .

family

In 1920 he married Emilie Marie Auguste Hirschfeld, whose father was a Frankfurt leather manufacturer. Their daughter Bergit was born in 1921.

Act

During the First World War , Braach served as a war correspondent at the front.

During the Weimar Republic , Braach worked in the occupied Rhineland . There he was initially director of the Stadttheater Hamborn (today the district of Duisburg ) in Taubenstrasse , which was donated by Fritz Thyssen . In an environment that was difficult due to hyperinflation , he worked for one season as artistic director at the city theater in Mönchengladbach , with recognized artistic success, but without economic success.

As a freelance writer, he and his family settled in Wertheim am Main until he was offered a position as editor-in-chief of the "Dorfzeitung" in Hildburghausen through his existing publishing contacts . As a result, the family moved to Thuringia, after very modest living conditions in Wertheim, to good middle-class living conditions in Hildburghausen with servants, a park-like garden and many pets and farm animals.

From 1930 the general living conditions of the family gradually deteriorated. Through the Thuringian State Minister for the Interior and National Education, Wilhelm Frick , who was also deputy chairman of the state government, National Socialist tendencies moved in earlier than in the rest of the Reich . These ruled especially the city of Hildburghausen, which had been hit hard by the effects of the global economic crisis . Many people there therefore orientated themselves very much towards the propaganda and promises of the Nazis. After the creep in power on January 30, 1933 at the latest , denunciation spread widely, Braach's wife was summoned because she was supposed to have talked to a Jewish businesswoman on the market on May 1, 1933.

This and the increasingly deteriorating environment, also due to ideological guidelines in the journalistic field, prompted Braach to terminate his contract early and to look for a new job. He found this in Frankfurt am Main, the birthplace of his wife, where his in-laws also lived.

In 1933 he became chief editor of the newly founded family magazine "Our Family - Magazine for the New Apostolic Home", responsible for the entertainment section that dominated. The New Apostolic Church as an employer offered Braach a much less Nazi-influenced daily journalistic business.

In Frankfurt, the family moved to Königstrasse 13 (today: Gräfstrasse ) in the Bockenheim district .

In 1937 Braachs decided to take their daughter Bergit from the Viktoriaschule (today: Bettinaschule ) in the Westend district , even before she graduated from school. The reason for this was that this appearance as an accompanying pianist for a singer at a school concert was temporarily banned because it was remembered that she had a Jewish grandfather.

Three weeks before the attack of the German Wehrmacht in Poland is Braachs daughter Bergit decided to stay in London , the first not as emigration was intended, but developed by the war to such. She stayed there for six years and did not receive any letters from home. Her father therefore did not see her again until his untimely death. Braach died in 1940 at the age of only 52.

Works (selection)

  • 1916 - The war poems of Johannes Heinrich Braach . Martini & Grüttefien, Elberfeld 1916
  • 1920 - only lonely. Ballads, psalms and songs . Pflüger, Duisburg 1920
  • 1920 - Beethoven, the human. Sketches . Pflüger, Duisburg 1920
  • 1923 - People - Poems . Middelhauve, Cologne 1923
  • 1930 - The brothers . In: Hildburghausen village newspaper
  • after 1933 - The Witch of Bamberg . In: "Our Family"
  • 1935 - Tur Dell. The story of a pike . Stalling, Oldenburg 1935
  • 1938 - Quilepp and Quila. A heron novel . Rütten & Loening, Potsdam 1938
  • various stage plays, unprinted

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Heinrich Braach. Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf at: duesseldorf.de, accessed on: August 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ Johannes Heinrich Braach. Network of Apostolic History at: apostolische-geschichte.de, accessed on August 2, 2015.
  3. ↑ Johannes Heinrich Braach. Open Library at: openlibrary.org, accessed August 2, 2015.
  4. ↑ Mile Braach. A page for Hildburghausen at: diedunkelgraefinhbn.de, accessed on August 2, 2015.
  5. ↑ Reading sample from Mile Braach flashback. Memories of a ninety-year-old at: canities-news.de, accessed on August 2, 2015.
  6. ^ The war poems of Johannes Heinrich Braach. (German Digital Library of the Berlin State Library)  in the German Digital Library , accessed on August 2, 2015.
  7. ↑ Johannes Heinrich Braach. Central directory of antiquarian books at: zvab.com, accessed on August 2, 2015.
  8. ^ Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. De Gruyter 2001. Blaas – Braunfels. P. 503.
personal data
SURNAME Braach, Johannes Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knipp, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, poet, journalist, editor, music critic, musicologist, director
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1940
Place of death Frankfurt am Main