Lamprechtshausner consecration play
The Lamprechtshausner Weihespiel is a play written by the National Socialist writer Karl Springenschmid in memory of the Lamprechtshausen Nazi putsch of 1934.
As a thing game, it was supposed to replace the annual performance of “ Jedermann ” by Hugo von Hofmannsthal on Salzburg's Domplatz. However, it was only performed in 1938 and 1939 on a specially built natural stage and a grandstand built for over 1000 guests near Lamprechtshausen (in the north of the Austrian state of Salzburg ) in the area of today's Reitlwaldsiedlung. After that, the Second World War prevented further productions. However, there were no performances of Jedermann on Domplatz between 1938 and 1945 .
prehistory
The town of Lamprechtshausen was also affected by the July coup of the National Socialists. Here a group of SA men occupied public facilities on the night of July 27-28, 1934, arrested several people and that night engaged in a battle with a Home Guard. The uprising was put down by a company of the Alpine Army Regiment No. 12 under the command of Captain Franz Rosenkranz in the morning hours of July 28th. The attempted coup resulted in six deaths on the part of the National Socialists and two on the part of the armed forces, as well as several injured on both sides.
After the annexation of Austria , the Lamprechtshausen Nazi activist Dr. Sprenger on April 7, 1938 Adolf Hitler on the occasion of the groundbreaking for the construction of the Reichsautobahn on Walserberg in a unilateral manner about the course of the Nazi putsch. Thereupon Hitler ordered all officers of the Austrian Armed Forces who were involved in the suppression of the uprising to be held in custody. This happened immediately, whereupon the imprisoned officers and other high-ranking Austrian officials from Salzburg who were involved in the July coup were murdered in the following years.
The consecration game
The game does not represent historical processes, but is a mythical exaggeration of the events of that time. The intention was to prepare viewers and fellow players for a sacrificial death for Adolf Hitler.
“ An open open-air stage, bowls of flames in which wood and herbs were burned (a very typical Nazi ritual), fanfares, light signals, the bells of the church ... Everything pointed to a secular service that was supposed to establish the sacrament of the 'Volksgemeinschaft' . In the end everyone sang the 'songs of the nation'. "
In a supposedly peasant language, which has little in common with the Flachgau dialect, an ideology of justification is put forward , the defeat in the Lamprechtshausen Nazi putsch is attributed to the military superiority and brutality of the executive forces, while the heroism of the putschists is glorified; the younger brother of the slain leader saved the swastika flag and the mother happily agrees to the “sacrificial death” of her older son. Shouts of the names of the killed National Socialists are used when doubts arise about the meaning of the political processes. Finally, the name of the leader Franz Natschläger resounds, followed by the mother: “My boy, your death has become the life of all of us.” In the last picture of the consecration play, “The Führer” is conjured up, for whom everything should be happily sacrificed, and with him Raising the swastika flag and singing the Germany song ends the piece.
The Lamprechtshausen consecration game is also an example of the National Socialist appropriation of public life through recurring celebrations and events. The days around July 25th, as a forerunner of the “homecoming into the empire” of the “Ostmark”, were assigned particular importance. Here, too, the "Eastern Mark martyrs " was commemorated. Springenschmid and the photographer Enno Folkerts have dedicated a booklet of their own to the putschists involved. Here, with a lot of " blood and soil romance ", the peasant life in the alleged conflict with the archbishopric authorities and the Michelbeuern monastery is depicted. Regardless of political issues, it is claimed that the peasantry was exploited "with the money of the Jews, with the fist of the Marxists and with the blessing of the political church in Vienna" and that the constitution of the corporate state was enacted with the intention of "the National Socialists into battle ” . The solution to the adversities of the 1930s that was imputed to the enslaved people was the July coup, as was the case in Lamprechtshausen. As expected, the course of the putsch is described without reference to the actual events (e.g. "tenfold superiority" of the armed forces against the SA, fight "with desperate strength to the last man for Adolf Hitler", "conviction and execution of a putschist") .
To mystify the July coup, a monumental fresco was also attached to the church in Lamprechtshausen to commemorate the six killed National Socialists. The artist Switbert Lobisser painted the fresco on the back wall of the church in her memory at the present location of the war memorial. Here the names of the fallen putschists were honored with the text "Your death - our life, your sacrifice - our victory". This SA memorial was inaugurated on August 5, 1938 by the Salzburg Gauleiter Friedrich Rainer .
The subsequent glorification of the putsch also included the renaming of the elementary school from Michaelbeuern to "Sepp Maislinger School". He was one of the putschists who died in the Stadler inn and was buried in Michaelbeuern on July 31, 1934. This dedication was removed after the war.
Processing after 1945
Dr. Emil Sprenger , SS-Obersturmbannführer and carrier of the blood order during the Nazi era , was classified in the group of followers by the Moosburg camp ruling chamber in 1948 as part of the denazification process and paid a fine of 800 RM. He was no longer accepted into the civil service.
Karl Springenschmid, who did it during the Nazi era a. a. to the SS-Hauptsturmführer and was wanted for war crimes after the war, went into hiding after the war; the judicial investigation against him was closed in 1951.
literature
- Ernst Hanisch: Gau of the good nerves: The National Socialist rule in Salzburg 1938–1945. Anton Pustet, Salzburg 1997, ISBN 3-7025-0325-0 .
- Anton Maislinger: “The time was so radical.” In Andreas Maislinger : The Lamprechtshausen putsch. Witnesses from July 1934 report (pp. 161–162). Self-published, 1992, ISBN 3-901201-00-9 .
- Franz Rosenkranz: "Many will no longer live there." In Andreas Maislinger: The Lamprechtshausen putsch. Witnesses from July 1934 report (pp. 115–125). Self-published, 1992, ISBN 3-901201-00-9 .
- Karl Springenschmid: The Lamprechtshausner consecration play. The struggle and hardship of a German village in Austria. Berlin: Theater Verlag Albert Langen & Georg Müller, 1938.
- Karl Springenschmid, Enno Folkerts: Lamprechtshausen. A village in Ostmark fights for Adolf Hitler. Munich: Deutscher Volksverlag, 1939.
Web links
- On the history of the Lamprechtshausen Comradeship Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franz Rosenkranz, 1992, p. 116 f.
- ^ Karl Springenschmid, Enno Folkerts: Lamprechtshausen. A village in Ostmark fights for Adolf Hitler. Munich: Deutscher Volksverlag, 1939.
- ↑ Robert Kriechbaumer: The great stories of politics. Political culture and parties in Austria from the turn of the century to 1945. Vienna: Böhlau, series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek, 2001, ISBN 978-3-205-99400-8 .
- ↑ Austrian newsreels 1933–1979 ( PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )
- ^ Anton Maislinger, 1992, p. 162.
- ↑ Personnel file Dr. Emil Sprenger , State Archives Munich, Sign. PA 17591.
