Kurt Gerlach (writer)

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Kurt Gerlach (born March 4, 1889 in Dresden ; † March 13, 1976 ibid) was a German folk writer and writer of amateur plays .

Life

Gerlach was the father of the writers Tine Schulze-Gerlach and Hubert Gerlach and the grandfather of the singer and television presenter Hartmut Schulze-Gerlach . He taught at the school in Rähnitz - Hellerau near Dresden and wrote a number of successful novels and stories of national and ethnic content before and during the time of National Socialism . He also wrote fairy tale and amateur games.

As a contribution to the theory of a völkisch National Socialist drama, he wrote the writings Aufuchte , Deutscher Aufstieg und Drama und Nation in the early 1930s . In the book Talent and Tribal Origin in the German People , published in 1929, he tried to correlate the distribution of creative, scientific, political and military talents with the settlement areas of the German tribes and came to the conclusion that the border and mixing regions in particular were particularly important produce such talents.

In the 1940s Gerlach began to publish on topics of geomantics . Similar to the Ley lines "discovered" by Alfred Watkins in Great Britain , Gerlach developed a wide-ranging network of geometric lines in Germany, Central and Northern Europe, which, unlike the British Leys, did not connect prehistoric monuments but church foundations from the 10th and 11th centuries . He published corresponding articles primarily in the Germanien magazine . Some of these articles appeared in 1976 in English translation.

After 1945 he continued to live in Hellerau, worked as a metal grinder and only published a few amateur plays.

Works

  • Germantik, the right life. This is a little book in German. Matthes, Leipzig 1914.
  • Pilgrimage to ravens. Narrative. Two-hand print series, vol. 1. Matthes, Hellerau 1918.
  • The pump hat. Cone stories. Illustrations by Robert Budzinski. Two-hand print vol. 3. Matthes, Hellerau 1918.
  • The funny story between Rome and worry. Illustrations by Fritz Buchholz. Two-hand print vol. 57. Matthes, Hellerau 1920.
  • Book of Blondness. Leipzig 1920.
  • New game from Doctor Faust. Leipzig 1921.
  • The youth. Poems. Leipzig 1921.
  • Faraway love. Images of the renewal of the West. Ascent, Leipzig 1923.
  • Snow white. A fairy tale game. Hellerau 1925.
  • The bully and the child. A game. Hellerau 1925.
  • Krabat or The Magic School. Little horror book. Hellerau 1925.
  • Hansel and Gretel. A fairy tale game. Hellerau 1925.
  • The seven Ravens. A fairy tale game. Hellerau 1926.
  • Ragnarok. Novel from the end of the Nordic Stone Age. Hellerau 1927.
  • The Christmas market. A Christmas game. Berlin 1927.
  • Talent and tribal origin in the German people. Findings about the origin of the German cultural creators in map images. JF Lehmann, Munich 1929.
  • Between the Fronts or The War from Below. Novel. Hellerau 1929.
  • The boy in the forest. An outlier story. Hellerau 1930.
  • Light up. The game of the youth movement in the model of the original fraternity. Leipzig 1931.
  • German awakening. A contribution to paving the way for the new amateur play and drama. Leipzig 1931.
  • Drama and nation. A contribution to paving the way for a National Socialist drama. Wroclaw 1934.
  • Small writings on the geometrical relationships between the founding of German places and monasteries and on the Amsten. 2 parts. Dresden 1934.
  • The Smile of Saint Vitus or The Great Sorcery of the Black Brothers. Leipzig 1939.
  • The birches in the stones. Novel. Matthes, Prague 1942.
  • The long journey. Novel from the end of the Nordic Stone Age. Novel. Leipzig 1943.
  • The road to Prague. Leipzig 1943.
  • The maid and the court. A game of reverence for life. Weinheim 1957.
  • I am Napoleon. Scenic cross-section through a dictator's life. Weinheim 1957.

literature

  • Heidemarie Stegmann-Meißner: Gerlach, Kurt. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 4, p. 182 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christopher Hutton: Race and the Third Reich: Linguistics, Racial Anthropology and Genetics in the Dialectic of 'People'. Polity, 2005, ISBN 0745631770 , [IWDyVPi6pHgC p. 151]http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3DIWDyVPi6pHgC~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA151~ double-sided%3D~LT%3DS.%20151~PUR%3D .
  2. ^ Germania. Monthly booklet for prehistory to the knowledge of the German essence. Research and teaching community ›Das Ahnenerbe‹ . Waischfeld 1929-1943, ZDB ID 216755-4 . Essays by Gerlach for example: early German land measurements 1940; Material on the early German land surveys in 1940; "Sacred" or purposeful lines across Bohemia 1942; "Richt" lines through Germany in 1943.
  3. ^ Josef Heinsch, Kurt Gerlach: Central European geomancy. Edited by Nigel Pennick, Prudence Jones, Michael Behrend. Institute of Geomantic Research, Cambridge 1976, ISBN 0905376021 ; Leys of the German Empire. Institute of Geomantic Research, Cambridge 1976.
  4. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1952, sv Gerlach, Kurt .
personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folk writer and writer of amateur plays
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1976
Place of death Dresden