Karl Christian Müller

Karl Christian Müller (pseudonym Teut or Teut Ansolt ; born January 17, 1900 in Saarlouis , † January 10, 1975 in Homburg ) was a German poet and writer .

Life

Müller was born in Saarlouis in 1900 as the son of a post office clerk. After the family moved to Saarbrücken he attended from 1906 to 1910 there the elementary school and then from 1910 to 1918 the "Reform-Realgymnasium" he because of the war with the Notabitur completed. During the First World War , he trained as a radio operator in the Silesian Liegnitz in 1918 in the grenadier regiment of King Wilhelm I.

From 1918 to 1919 he studied German , Protestant theology , history , philosophy and geography at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and became a member of the “Nicaria” student association. In 1919 he briefly became a member of the Freikorps "Freiwilligen-Bataillon von Liebermann" in the Baltic States, before he continued his studies in Tübingen , Munich , Bonn and Cologne in the same year and graduated in 1924 with the first state examination. He had already obtained his doctorate the year before . In 1924 and 1925 he was a student trainee for the higher teaching post in St. Wendel and Saarbrücken. From 1925 to 1962 he then worked as a teacher or senior teacher at various schools in the Saar region , Westmark and Saarland .

In 1930 he founded the boys' union "Trucht" in Saarbrücken and until 1934 forced the merger with other groups to form the "Fuldabund", then the "German Autonomous Young Society". In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and the National Socialist Teachers' Association and became a member of the German Front , which campaigned for the return of the Saar region to the German Reich . Despite initial problems with the National Socialists because of his alliance, Müller adapted to the National Socialist system and also exercised party-related functions, such as from 1935 that of the "Head of the Association of Saarbrücken City and Country in the Rhineland-Palatinate / Saar Gau" of the Reich Association of German Writers . In World War II, Müller was between 1942 and 1944 a war correspondent in various propaganda units of the Navy. In 1944 he was taken prisoner by the British in Egypt and was not released until 1948. After his return to the Saarland, the French occupying power classified Müller as “less burdened”, but initially refused him to return to school. He was only allowed to work as a teacher again in early 1950. In the Soviet occupation zone , his work The Armistice (Truchtverlag, Leipzig 1933) was placed on the list of literature to be segregated .

In the following years Müller re-founded Trucht twice (1950 and 1962) and was heavily involved in the Saarland literary scene: from 1951 to 1964 he was co-founder and first chairman of the "Association of Saarland Authors". In 1965 he founded the "Steinwald-Verlag" in Saarbrücken and ran it for five years. In 1967 and 1968 he founded the "Arthur Friedrich Binz-Kreis", from 1970 to 1973 he was chairman of the "Saarländischer Kulturkreis e. V. "

Müller was buried on January 13, 1975 in the main cemetery in Saarbrücken. He had been married since 1935 and had one daughter.

His estate is in the Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace literature archive at the Saarland University .

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For the Germanist and historian Torsten Mergen, Müller is one of the “pioneers of the Saarland literary business”. Müller had already published his first volume of poetry in his student years; in the years up to his death, 16 more volumes followed with natural and historical poetry, but also with novels, short stories and essays.

Honors

In 1977 Müller received a memorial stone in the "Grove of Honor of the German Youth Movement" at Waldeck Castle in the Hunsrück.

Works

• They were looking for a home . Hausen Publishing Company, Saarlautern, 1937
• The Bible writer . Young generation, Berlin, 1943
• Divining rod . Minerva-Verlag, Saarbrücken, 1954
• Ship that passes by: English poems from Thomas Hardy to Aldous Huxley Minerva-Verlag, Saarbrücken, 1956
• Jokes and madness: anecdotes and examples from the time of Charlemagne up to the Thirty Years' War . Meister, Heidelberg, 1963
• Flower ladder . Meister, Heidelberg, 1963
• Hills in a Catalan field . Steinwald Verlag, 1965
• The sand rose chants . Voggenreiter Verlag, 1966
• Forest stones . Südmarkverlag, Heidenheim / Brenz, 1967
• The sea horn call: dance . Südmark-Verlag Fritsch, Heidenheim (Brenz), 1974

literature

• Torsten Mergen: A fight for the rights of the muses. Life and work of Karl Christian Müller alias Teut Ansolt (1900–1975) . Forms of Memory Volume 50, Verlag V&R, Göttingen, 2012.

Web links

• Karl Christian Müller in the Saarland biographies

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of literature to be discarded
2. ↑ Wulf Wein, Some crystal poems have never been heard , Saarbrücker Zeitung, January 5, 2013, p. E8.