Karl Franz Leppa

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Karl Franz Leppa (born January 28, 1893 in Budweis , Bohemia ; † August 13, 1986 in Weißenburg in Bavaria ) was a Sudeten German writer and older brother of the military historian Josef Franz Leppa (pseudonym: Konrad Leppa ).

biography

Karl Franz Leppa, the son of a teacher in South Bohemia , published the folk -influenced poems On German Graves in 1923 , which attracted attention. In 1931 he received the Czechoslovak State Prize for German literature . Many of his subsequent poems and stories were translated into the Czech language . From 1933 he was together with Hans Watzlik the editor of the journal Der Ackermann from Böhmen. Monthly magazine for the intellectual life of the Sudeten Germans , six volumes of which were published between 1933 and 1938. From 1937 he published the monthly magazine Das deutsche Erbe , both of which were published by Adam Kraft (publisher) in Karlsbad.

After the end of the Second World War (1939–1945) he lived as a displaced person in Nuremberg . He spent the last years of his life in Suffersheim near Weißenburg and died in 1986 in Weißenburg. On May 27, 1992, at the suggestion of the then Mayor of Weißenburg Reinhard Schwirzer, a path in Suffersheim was named Leppaweg after him.

In the Soviet zone of occupation were the speech collection Karl Franz Leppa. Poet and faithful Eckart (Kraus, Reichenberg 1943) and in the German Democratic Republic Leppas An deutscher Gräbern (Böhmerland-Verlag, Eger 1923) put on the list of literature to be sorted out .

Works

  • Affairs of the heart. A consolation u. Wehrbüchlein for the German people (1920)
  • The Conversion of the Ellechsner (1921)
  • Corn Blessing (1922)
  • At German graves . Poems (1923)
  • The King's Letter (1925)
  • Inflected people . Stories (1925)
  • Krummau in the Bohemian Forest (1926)
  • Hans Watzlik. His life and work (1929)
  • Wrestling nationality. On the Sudeten German Being (1931)
  • Antonia. A Tale (1931)
  • Come on, brave German. Of heroic nature and deed (1934)
  • People and life. A collection of Sudeten German poetry (1936)
  • Drunk with freedom. Portraits and Events (1937)
  • The last spring . Narration (1938)
  • Fountain noise . Calendar Stories (1940)
  • Andreas Osang (1942)
  • The Dark God (1942)
  • Zurich Elegy (1948)
  • The elder tree story (1948)

literature

  • Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Vol. II, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 , p. 430, there: Josef Franz Leppa (Ps. Konrad Leppa) (1901–1980) and his brother Karl Franz Leppa (1893–1986)
  • Wilhelm Formann: Sudeten German Poetry Today , Munich 1961, p. 66
  • Reinhard Schwirzer: Karl Franz Leppa. A forgotten author from Bohemia. In: Villa nostra. Weißenburger Blätter for the history, local history and culture of the city and Weißenburger Land , issue 1, 1992, pp. 5–12

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 362.
  2. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-l.html
personal data
SURNAME Leppa, Karl Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Ceske Budejovice
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1986
Place of death Weißenburg in Bavaria