Kurt Ihlenfeld

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Berlin memorial plaque on the Heimat 85 house in Berlin-Zehlendorf
Honorary grave, Potsdamer Chaussee 75, in Berlin-Nikolassee

Kurt Ihlenfeld (born May 26, 1901 in Colmar , † August 25, 1972 in West Berlin ) was a German pastor and writer , above all an essayist and poet .

Life

He spent his youth in Pomerania, attended grammar school in Bromberg / Posen and studied Protestant theology and art studies at the universities of Halle and Greifswald . In 1923 he received his doctorate in Greifswald . He took up his first pastor in Breslau. As an employee of the Evangelical Press Association for Silesia, he became editor of the Breslauer Gemeindeblattes "Our Church" in 1926. The pastor's post in Waldenburg followed in 1927 and in Berndorf (near Liegnitz ) in 1929 .

In 1933 the National Socialists began their struggle against the church press. Ihlenfeld was already an employee of the Evangelical Press Association for Germany, EPD, in Berlin-Steglitz as the responsible editor for the "Bilderbote für das Evangelische Haus". In June the EPD was occupied by commissioners of the German Christians and its leadership was removed. After Harald Braun and Hans Walter Liepmann, Ihlenfeld took over the editing of the monthly magazine Eckart - Blätter für Evangelische Geisteskultur. Until 1943 he headed the Eckart publishing house in Berlin . By founding the Eckart Circle, he created a platform for the resistance of young and Christian authors who u. a. Werner Bergengruen , Ricarda Huch , Jochen Klepper , Rudolf Alexander Schröder , Siegbert Stehmann and Otto von Taube were members.

From 1943 Ihlenfeld pastor in Mittenwalde near Berlin, from 1944 to 1945 in Pilgramsdorf, Kreis Goldberg, the scene of his novel "Winter Storm", from 1945 to 1949 in Radebeul near Dresden , where he and 1946-1949 editor of the Protestant church newspaper Founder Sunday was . From 1950 he lived as a freelance writer in Berlin . In 1952 he was awarded the Fontane Prize for his novel Wintergewitter . From 1956 until his death he was a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin (West) , Literature Section, of which he was deputy director from 1962 to 1965.

Ihlenfeld was buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in Berlin-Nikolassee . The grave is one of the honor graves of the State of Berlin.

Works

  • Evangelical association work from the point of view of popular education, in: Yearbook for Protestant National Education, Munich 1928, pages 156–170
  • Public Religions, 1932
  • Spiritual Poems, (Ed.), 1935
  • The Hour of Christianity, (ed.), 1938
  • The Book of Christianity, (ed.), 1939
  • Die Zuversicht, (collection of poems), (ed.), 1940
  • Where a twig blooms, (poems), 1949
  • The Man of Sorrows, (story), 1949
  • I see the star, (Christmas book), 1949
  • The golden tablets, A Christmas Game, 1949
  • Stories about Bach , 1949, (new version 1962)
  • Winter Storm , (novel), 1951 (1952 for that Fontane Prize )
  • Poets and Prophets, (essays), 1951
  • The Dark Light, (autobiography), 1952
  • Far in the east it gets bright, (stories), 1953
  • Come again, human children, (novel), 1954
  • Eseleien auf Elba , (stories), 1955
  • Homage to Paul Gerhardt , 1956
  • An Ambassador of Joy, 1957
  • Rosa and the General, (drama), 1957
  • Friendship with Jochen Klepper , 1958
  • Under Simple Heaven, (Poems), 1959
  • The candidate, (novel), 1959
  • Seven festivals, 1959
  • The night they talk about, 1961
  • Zeitgesicht, (essay), 1961
  • Gregor's vain journey, (novel), 1962
  • City center, 1964
  • The Child and the Kings, Christmas Tales, 1964
  • Te Deum - today. 365 texts on the crisis of Christianity , (ed.), 1965
  • The country is still speaking, 1966
  • The cross is erected , hymn, 1967 ( EG 94)
  • Afraid of Luther ?, 1967
  • Loses Blatt Berlin , 1968
  • The happy shore. A Berliner experiences Blankensee, 1969
  • "... but the children, the children", 1972

literature

  • Brockhaus encyclopedia. multimedia 2005
  • Kurt Böttcher (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German-speaking writers from the beginning to the present. Leipzig 1974.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia.
  • Hans-Joachim Beeskow : “He wrote - in someone else's place, who never wrote. Ask him further. ”Comments on the life and work of Kurt Ihlenfeld. In: Frank-Lothar Kroll (Hrsg.): German authors of the east as opponents of National Socialism - contributions to the problem of resistance. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-428-10293-2 , pp. 403-414 (here p. 414, also further literature).

Web links

Commons : Kurt Ihlenfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Rosenstock: Evangelical Press in the 20th Century, Stuttgart, Zurich 2002, page 491, ISBN 3 7831 2052 7
  2. ^ Roland Rosenstock: Evangelical Press in the 20th Century, Stuttgart, Zurich 2002, page 491, ISBN 3 7831 20527
  3. ↑ Simone Höckele: August Hinderer. Path and work of a pioneer of Protestant journalism, Erlangen 2001, page 119, ISBN 3-933992-02-8
  4. ↑ Vossische newspaper front page 25/06/1933
  5. ↑ Roland Rosenstock: Evangelical Press in the 20th Century Stuttgart, Zurich 2002, p. 96/97, p. 100
  6. ^ Schlawe, Fritz: Literary Journals Part II 1910-1933 Stuttgart, Metzeler, 1962, page 99
personal data
SURNAME Ihlenfeld, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Colmar
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1972
Place of death West Berlin