Karl August Walther

Karl August Walther (born April 30, 1902 in Bielefeld , † after 1964) was a German writer and publisher.

Life

Walther was on the editorial staff of the cultural magazine “ Der Türmer ”, which was positioned völkisch under Friedrich Lienhard . Walther became increasingly radicalized and became a member of the National Socialist League for German Culture . He settled in Eisenach.

Walther was one of the visitors to the Lippoldsberg Poet Days organized by Hans Grimm .

From 1931 to 1936 Walther published the religious-folk National Socialist monthly magazine “Der Hochwart”, whose editors included Robert Hohlbaum , Curt Hotzel and Börries von Münchhausen , and in which articles a. a. by Herbert Böhme , Georg Grabenhorst , Walter Ehrenstein , Otto Everling , Heinz Grothe , Otto Heuschele , Robert Saitschick and Heinz Steguweit . At times the journal had the subtitle “Monthly for National Socialist outlook on life” and named the goal of “exterminating the destructive spirit of materialism”. Walther's magazine played an important hinge function between national-conservative authors and the more radical National Socialist cultural revolutionaries.

In 1932 Walther suggested the construction of an open-air stage at the foot of the Wartburg , for which he received support from the Russian Prince Heinrich XLV. and also received from Alfred Rosenberg and Walter Stang , so that the foundation stone of the “Wartburg-Waldbühne” was laid in the same year. Walther received further support from the castle captain of the Wartburg, Hans von der Gabelentz . After the seizure of power, construction was accelerated and the stage opened on April 20, 1933 with a performance of Hanns Johst's play Schlageter .

Karl August Walther moved to Potsdam and became treasurer of the newly founded Reich Association of German Writers . On the "Wartburg-Waldbühne", of which Walther was chairman, concerts and theater performances took place regularly until it was destroyed in the war.

After the Second World War , Walther emigrated to Lucerne , Switzerland, where he was the owner of the Montana publishing house.

In 1950 Walther became acquainted with Konrad Adenauer and later organized his visit to the pilgrimage site of Sachseln .

Publications

• Youth hiking , romantic poetry, 1921/24
• From the Ehrenhain in Bad Berka , 1926
• From the realm memorial , together with m. Cornelius Gurlitt and Johannes Keßler , 1926
• The legacy of the fathers, guide to the intellectual legacy of the German leadership , together with m. Albert Böhme, 1928
• The Langemarck Book of the German Student Union , 1931
• The Wartburgwaldbühne in Eisenach , 1933
• New People on Old Earth , 1935
• German people in work and military service , 1937
• Obwaldner Land - come to rest and watch , with Josef Garovi , 1950
• From the sea to Lake Constance, The Upper Rhine as a large shipping route , 1957
• Water - a threatened element of life , 1964
• Personal memories of Karl August Walther - Visiting Konrad Adenauer , in: Luzerner Tagblatt , August 2, 1980.

literature

• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar : 1943 .
• Archive for the history of the book industry , Volume 40, Monika Estermann, Reinhard Wittmann, De Gruyter Saur, 1993, ISBN 3-5982-4835-0 .
• Thomas Dietzel; Hans-Otto Hügel : German literary magazines: 1880 - 1945; a repertory. Volume 1. 1 - 764: A travers les Vosges - German-Nordic yearbook. Munich: Saur, 1988, number 1360, page 569.
• Justus H. Ulbricht : "German Religion" and "German Art". Intellectual search for meaning and cultural identity constructions in "Classical Modernism" . University of Jena, 2006.
• Thomas Vordermayer: educated bourgeoisie and völkisch ideology - constitution and social depth of a network of völkisch authors (1919–1959), De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2016.
• Lothar Ehrlich, Jürgen John , Justus H. Ulbricht : The Third Weimar - Classics and Culture in National Socialism , 1999.
• Michael Assmann, Herbert Heckmann (Eds.): Between Criticism and Confidence: 50 Years of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , Göttingen, Wallstein, 1999.
• Werner Kilian: Adenauer and the brother Klaus - On the religiosity of Konrad Adenauer , in: Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen, vol. 13, issue 1, ed. v. Hans-Otto Kleinmann , Hanns Jürgen Küsters , Günter letter . Published online January 4, 2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl August Walther in the catalog of the German National Library