Kurt Arnold Findeisen

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Grave of Kurt Arnold Findeisen in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden.

Kurt Arnold Findeisen (born October 15, 1883 in Zwickau , † November 18, 1963 in Dresden ), pseudonym Wendelin bagpipes , was a German writer .

Life

Kurt Arnold Findeisen came in 1883 as the son of the mountain officer August Findeisen (1842–1911) and the teacher's daughter Agathe geb. Arnold (1859–1890) in Zwickau. In Jena he attended the teachers' seminar, then worked as a teacher and nurse and began writing in 1914. From 1912 on he was editor of the monthly Das Vogtland and its neighboring regions: monthly for local art, literature and science , which appeared in Plauen. In addition to Findeisen (literature department), the editors were Paul Miller (art) and the architect Paul Rösler (science). From 1920 he was the editor of the Saxon Homeland until he was entrusted with the literary management of the secondary station Dresden in 1925 and with the management of the school radio department of the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG in 1931 . Findisen was a permanent employee of the radio station until 1933. Despite being a member of the NSDAP , he was dismissed by the National Socialists without notice in 1934 and from then on worked as a freelance writer in Dresden, where he lived until his death in 1963. Regardless of this dismissal, however, the National Socialists continued to use his folkloric texts such as B. in the anthology "German Christmas" (Widukind-Verlag Berlin, third edition 1943). In contrast, he himself approached the National Socialists again with the publication of poems such as Die Front der Frauen in 1942 and, for example, included works such as The Leader of the National Socialist Poet Wolfram Brockmeier in the publications he edited.

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Findeisen's work consists mainly of folk novels related to his Saxon homeland and biographical novels . He also emerged as a popular lyric poet with numerous volumes of poetry (e.g. Mutterland , 1914) and was a. a. recited by Mathias Wieman .

His narrative work became particularly his 1922 novel about the Erzgebirge folk hero Karl Stülpner : The son of the woods known, as well as his numerous musician novels such as hearts and masks (1921), Davidsbündler (1924) and you my soul, you my heart (1936) about Robert Schumann , A musician went through the world (1932) about the life of Franz Schubert , Lied des Schicksals (1933) about Brahms , God's organ (1935) about Bach and Handel , The life of a dance (1941) about Johann Strauss . Findisen also wrote a stage play about Ludwig Richter ( Ein deutsches Herz , 1924/25), which was premiered on the 50th anniversary of Ludwig Richter's death with Erich Ponto in the leading role in 1934. The Dresden Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger set texts from Findeisen from the Golden Christmas Book in the Christmas cycle of the Kruzians and other texts in the cycles Dresden and Erzgebirge .

Findeisen was the editor of the series Voices of the Landscape , Seals and Culture Images in High German, which was published by Bastei-Verlag in Dresden until the 1940s .

On February 13, 1945, Kurt Arnold Findeisen was bombed out by the air raids on Dresden and made homeless. His little grandson, who was only a few days old, died of smoke inhalation. The archive he lovingly compiled with rare sources on folklore was also a victim of the flames, as was his collection of old Erzgebirge folk art.

With the pearl wagon. A year before his death, Findeisen presented an autobiographical work from a childhood .

Findisen's 13-verse ballad Nikol Reifenteufel was set to music by the Leipzig songwriter Dieter Kalka and was the model for the medieval musician Mike Paulenz , who from then on called himself Teufel and has performed with this habitus ever since.

With the novels The Golden Rider and His Doom and Wings of Dawn , Findeisen tells Saxon and Dresden history over the decades of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. If in the first novel it is the artists, scientists and inventors and their works in Dresden such as Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann , Balthasar Permoser , Johann Melchior Dinglinger , Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus , Johann Friedrich Böttger , the second novel leads into the 19th century to Johann Andreas Schubert , Carl Gustav Carus , Richard Wagner and others.

Motto

Home is the heart of the world!

Awards

In 1929 Findeisen was awarded the Saxon Lessing Prize, donated in the same year, and in 1943 was again the first winner of the Gau Culture Prize of Saxony.

Works (selection)

  • Motherland (poems), 1914
  • Piano stories. Attempt to improve musical taste and internalize the German character . Leipzig, Dürrsche bookstore. 1915.
  • Ways Home (Stories), 1918
  • The Bundler of David . 2 vols. (Novel), 1921/1924
  • The son of the woods (novel about the game shooter Karl Stülpner ), Leipzig 1922
  • Ancestral land: ballads, romances, legends. Oscar Laube, Dresden 1922
  • A musician went through the world (Franz Schubert's life story in three shadows), Eichblatt's Deutsche Heimatbücher 46, printed by Frankenstein & Wagner, Leipzig, probably around 1932
  • Song of Fate (novel about Johannes Brahms ), 1933
  • God's Organ (novel about Bach and Handel ), 1935
  • It is a blond glow - a diary from the war years in France , Leipzig 1936
  • The last miner and other stories , Dresden 1936
  • The golden Christmas book from the Ore Mountains , 1936
  • The game of the robbery of a prince or The Man from the Forest , 1937
  • Seume - Wanderer, Soldier, Patriot , 1938
  • The seven point or the journey into the sandstone mountains , Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig, 1942
  • Wendelin bagpipes. Bittersweet Verses , 1943
  • O Christmas tree , 1943
  • Kingfisher. The novel Johann Gottfried Seumes (Roman), 1953
  • The Golden Rider and His Doom - A Roman Chronicle from the Days of the Baroque (historical novel), Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1954
  • Wings of Dawn (novel), 1956
  • Melody of Joy and other old Dresden stories , Berlin 1958
  • The great cantor and his organ (novel about Johann Sebastian Bach ), 1961
  • The Pearl Chariot (autobiography), 1962

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Arnold Findeisen , erzgebirgsverein.de, accessed on July 26, 2015
  2. ↑ The Saxon Calendar , 1942, p. 23
personal data
SURNAME Findisen, Kurt Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1963
Place of death Dresden