Kurt Metzner

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Kurt Otto Friedrich Metzner (born May 6, 1895 in Halle (Saale) , † after 1943) was a German publisher and cultural politician.

Life

Kurt Metzner was born on May 6, 1895 in Halle (Saale) , where he attended the Latina of the Pietistically oriented Francke Foundations from 1904 . After studying philosophical, literary and natural sciences, he received practical training from 1921 to 1926 at PAN Verlag R. Heise, which was based in the Charlottenburg district . In 1925, Metzner became a co-owner alongside Rolf Heise. Arthur Liebert , Emil Utitz and Rudolf Stammler were among the main authors of the publishing house . Mainly the publisher published philosophical writings, including publications of the Kant Society and the " source handbooks of philosophy ".

In 1936 Metzner became a full-time employee of the Reichsschrifttumskammer , as a department head of the "Group of Writers". In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP . Later Metzner also became an employee of the writers' association " Reichswerk Buch und Volk ". Within the Reichsschrifttumskammer, Metzner gave the journal Der deutsche Schriftsteller. Magazine for the writers in the Reichsschrifttumskammer out.

Metzner was appointed Ministerialrat and worked in the cultural policy department of the Foreign Office from 1943 .

After the end of World War II, Metzner was placed on the list of authors in the Soviet zone of occupation , "whose entire production is to be permanently removed".

Publications

  • Weltbrand , drama, 1920
  • The intellectual structure of the political parties in Europe , edited by Kurt Otto Metzner, Pan-Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin, 1931
  • Philosophy at the crossroads. A contribution to the reorganization of the Kant Society when the fortieth volume of the Kant studies appeared . In: German Science, Education and Public Education, 1. 1935
  • Orderly book review, manual for the redesign of the book review system for press and publishing , Börsenverein der deutschen Buchhande, Leipzig, 1935
  • Sense and nonsense of the book review
  • By right: a Friedrich story , Verlag Holle & Co., Berlin 1936

As editor or co-editor

  • Immanuel Kant , 1923
  • Criticism , 1925
  • Eckermann, conversations with Goethe
  • Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich v. Kleist
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar: 1939 , by Gerhard Lüdtke and Kurt Metzner, Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin, Leipzig, 1939
  • The German editor

literature

  • Jan-Pieter Barbian : Literary Policy in the 'Third Reich'. Institutions, competencies, fields of activity . Buchhandels-Vereinigung, Frankfurt am Main 1993 (also: Phil. Diss. Universität Trier 1991), ISBN 3-7657-1760-6 (revised paperback edition: dtv, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-04668-6 )
  • Ernst Troeltsch, Critical Complete Edition, Volume 17, Five Lectures on Religion and Philosophy of History for England and Scotland , ed. v. Gangolf Hübinger , De Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 3-11-018232-7

References and comments

  1. ^ Karl Buchheim, Eine Sächsische Lebensgeschichte, memories 1889-1972 , Oldenbourg, Munich, 1996, ISBN 3-486-56156-1 , p. 187.
  2. ^ Directory of the literature to be sorted out, Only for official use !, Magistratsdruckerei, Berlin, February 12, 1946, p. 54.
personal data
SURNAME Metzner, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metzner, Kurt Otto Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and cultural politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH 20th century