Karl Maertin

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Karl Maertin (born February 23, 1882 in Anröchte , Sauerland , † 1934 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a Westphalian poet and sculptor .

Life

Maertin was the son of a carpenter. He attended elementary school in Anröchte, did an apprenticeship as a stonemason and then went on a journeyman's journey. In 1905 he was taken on by the sculptor Heinrich Splieth in Berlin, for whom he worked as a craftsman. His main job was foreman and self-employed entrepreneur in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. He died there in 1934. In 1922, at Julius Hart's suggestion, he published poems in a Berlin publishing house ( Opfere! Gedichte ). Further poetry publications followed. In 1930 he wrote an obituary for Julius Hart in the Ostdeutsche Hefte published by Carl Lange , sheets of the German Heimatbund Danzig , in which Agnes Miegel , Hans Franck and Hans Friedrich Blunck also published. In 1938 his stage play appeared posthumously ( breakthrough. A game for the German sculptor and stone mason trade ).

Maertin remained connected to his region of origin. Like Josefa Berens-Totenohl , Maria Kahle and Heinrich Luhmann, he was a member of the völkisch Sauerland Artists' Circle (SKK) founded by Georg Hermann Nellius in the late 1920s . In the following years, the circle was headed by Hans Menne, NSDAP member since 1924. After the transfer of power, the SSK was viewed by the NSDAP as a representative association of the Sauerland culture bearers. The “National Socialist Revolution” filled its members “with great joy”, as they announced in a joint declaration in the Westphalian Central-Volksblatt of the center . The SKK was a member of the Rosenbergs Kampfbund for German culture .

Honors

The town hall of the native town of Anröchte is decorated with a depiction of Maertin's cycle of hymns . A street was named after him there and the house where he was born is preserved and maintained by the city.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the East German books : Jens Stüben, the cultural-political magazine “East German monthly books ” and their 'struggle' for the 'German East', in: Matthias Weber (ed.), Deutschlands Osten - Polens Westen. Comparative study on historical regional studies, Frankfurt (Main) 2001, pp. 17–29.
  2. ↑ Karl Maertin, Julius Hart † (1859–1930), in: Ostdeutsche Monatshefte für Kunst und Geistesleben, issue 11.8, November 1930, pp. 509–516.
  3. ↑ All information according to: Karl Maertin in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  4. ^ See literature portal Westphalia: [1] .
  5. ^ Peter Bürger, The völkisch wing of the Sauerland homeland movement. About Josefa Berens-Totenohl, Georg Nellius, Lorenz Pieper and Maria Kahle - at the same time a contribution to the street name debate, in: daunlots. Internet contributions from the Christine Koch dialect archive at Museum Eslohe, No. 60, Eslohe 2013, see: [2] .
  6. ↑ Steffen Stadthaus, Heinrich Luhmann. Homeland poet and National Socialist ?! Expert opinion on behalf of the city of Hamm, o. O. (Hamm) o. J. (2012), p. 5, see: [3] .
  7. ↑ All information in this section based on: Steffen Stadthaus, Heinrich Luhmann. Homeland poet and National Socialist ?! Expert opinion on behalf of the city of Hamm, o. O. (Hamm) o. J. (2012), see: [4] .
personal data
SURNAME Maertin, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Westphalian poet and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Anröchte , Sauerland
DATE OF DEATH 1934
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf