Mario Heil de Brentani

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Mario Heil de Brentani (born March 5, 1908 in San Quirico , Italy, † 1982 in Canada ) was a German writer and non-fiction author and a German-Canadian magazine publisher .

Life

Mario Heil de Brentani came from a German-Italian family. He studied German and mechanical engineering and campaigned for the Nazi movement from 1930 onwards . He belonged to the “poet's comradeship” of the “Front Dichterheim Schloss Buderose ” near Guben , a group of around 150 authors, including numerous members of the “ SA culture ” and poets from the Hitler Youth . Even Edwin Erich Dwinger , Max Barthel , Rudolf G. Binding and Hans Friedrich Blunck were among this circle. Heil de Brentani was active in cultural policy in the Nazi sense and wrote, for example, on the occasion of the radio exhibition in 1935, the contribution “Workers and soldiers' spirit. Ein Wort an Kulturberufe ”and in 1941 as war correspondent “ The lucky pig of the 3rd Company ”. He wrote numerous short stories and short stories . His books were published several times. In 1941 Franz Lennartz still judged him: “A young, promising humorous narrator”. Brentani also wrote some non-fiction books, for example about old Frankfurt families.

After 1945 Mario Heil de Brentani emigrated to Canada . He changed his mind, changed his name to "Mario von Brentani" and together with his wife Ruth founded the German-language Montrealer Nachrichten , which he then worked as its editor. Employees of the Montrealer Nachrichten were z. B. Paul Spiegel and the cultural editor of the paper, Klausbernd Vollmar .

Von Brentani was considered the contact person for East Germany. The newspaper he published received financial support from the GDR at times . He wrote his last two books on Canada and Eskimo art .

Works

  • Canadian Eskimo painter . (Under the name: "Mario von Brentani"). Union, Berlin 1975
  • Canada. The land of the day after tomorrow , Stauffacher, Zurich 1954
  • The Hessian chest. Novellas , Altkönig, Oberursel 1951
  • Old Frankfurt families , Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1950
  • King Kasperle . Novella, Bong, Berlin 1943
  • The fiery red snake , Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1942
  • The lucky pig of the 3rd Company , Limpert, Berlin 1941
  • The music box. Loud and quiet stories , Schneider, Reichenau 1938
  • The girl bittersweet , Reichenau 1938
  • Lorle on the bridge. Story , Limpert, Berlin 1936 (reprint 1944 in the " Feldblusenbücherei der 'Italienpost'" [No. 15])
  • Mr. Pastor's fire carriage. A Biedermeier novella , Leipzig 1936
  • Atlanta and the Seven Hundred. Novella about a vacationer's trip to Madeira , Leipzig 1936
  • Game under flags. Roman , Hamburg 1936
  • Das Mäuschen Li and other stories , Moewig u. Höffner, Berlin 1935
  • Villa cardboard box. A cheerful novel about young people of our time , Berlin-Schöneberg 1935

As editor:

  • The Book of Flanders. Written by German soldiers , Bong, Berlin 1943
  • The heart in hand. Poets from all German tribes tell the youth , Thienemann, Stuttgart 1939

literature

  • Jörg Plath: House of the German front poets in Buderose near Guben . In: The third front. Literature in Brandenburg 1930-1950 , ed. v. Peter Walther. Lukas, Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-936872-25-2
  • Franz Lennartz: German writers of the 20th century in the mirror of criticism . Vol. 2. S. Kröner, Stuttgart 1984. ISBN 3-520-82101-X
  • W Kosch, CL Lang, H Rupp: German literature lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical manual . 7. Vol. Haab-Hogrebe. Francke, Bern a. a. 1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heil di Brentano and the Front Dichterheim Buderose ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.literaturport.de
  2. ↑ Quoted from: Franz Lennartz: German writers of the 20th century in the mirror of criticism . Vol. 2. Stuttgart 1984, p. 698
  3. ↑ Karin Gürttler in the section on Carl Weisel Berger, German-language literature in exile since 1933 , Vol. 2: New York Part 1. Saur, 1989; again de Gruyter, 2018. Ed. John M. Spalek , Joseph Strelka , pp. 1213-1220
  4. ↑ Canada: Fools and Bank Robbers . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1974 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Josef Schmidt: Manuel Meune. Les Allemands du Quebec. Parcours et discours d'une communauté méconnue . Méridien, Montréal 2003 ISBN 2-89415-293-0 p. 322 ff.
  6. ↑ Review: Peter Lust: The Two Germanies . Harvest House. Montreal 1966. In: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies . University of Toronto Press ISSN  0037-1939 (Print) ISSN  1911-026X (Online). Volume 43, # 3, September 2007
personal data
SURNAME Heil de Brentani, Mario
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brentani, Mario from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH San Quirico d'Orcia , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 1982
Place of death Canada