Martin Machule

Martin Machule (born April 10, 1899 in Berlin , † August 8, 1981 in Munich ; pseudonym : Armin Mechtlau) was a bank clerk, botanist and Austrian author of German nationality.

Life

Martin Machule was born on April 10, 1899 in Berlin to Silesian parents.

Inspired by Homer's Odyssey and the Song of the Nibelungs , he and a school friend made his first lyrical attempts at the age of 16 during the First World War ; According to him, however, these were not of particular quality. This was followed by a long time without any literary production, when Machule worked as a bank clerk in Berlin. It was only when he came to Vienna for work in 1943 that he began to write, mainly poetry, again , inspired by the works of Josef Weinheber . Machule then corresponded with the later widow of the wine lifter, whom he greatly admired.

In 1919 Machule joined the German School Association in Südmark , and around 1943/44 the German Language Association .

Martin Machule was a member of the NSDAP . At the Nazi Party Congress of the NSDAP in Nuremberg in 1927 , Machule applied for the word party comrade to be introduced as an official form of address in party life, but Hitler rejected this with the advice that this would become naturalized by itself.

In November 1943, Machule was injured in the eyes in an air raid. Despite an operation on the retina , he became blind in one eye. The other eye could be preserved, but with reduced vision. Machule was unable to work and moved to Puchberg am Schneeberg in Lower Austria .

The end of the Second World War was a hard stroke of fate for Machule: "The heyday of liars, forgers, traitors and self-defrauders, which has continued since then, partly determined my creativity, which is expressed by one word: resistance ", says Machule himself. Like many others Authors who supported National Socialism and showed no remorse for it, found it difficult for Machule to publish his works. He became an avowed opponent of the predominant art and literature of the post-war period.

His first publication after the end of the war was made possible by an unnamed friend who was the editor of the magazine Nation Europa and who published Machules poetry in the same publisher. In 1965 Machule came into contact with the Dichterstein Offenhausen association , which he joined, which was banned in 1999 because of National Socialist re- employment. In consultation with the club's founder, Josef Hieß , Machule founded the Offenhausener building blocks series ; they should "serve the resistance against decay of every kind and be useful to those forces who are unwilling to accept the decline of our poor, torn fatherland as an inevitable fate." Machule's own works make up a very large proportion of the content of the building blocks .

On February 1, 1960 Machule joined the "Mutterssprache" association, Vienna , of which he became a member in 1970 for life. In 1979 he was awarded the poet's stone shield from the Dichterstein Offenhausen association. He was a member of the right-wing extremist species community .

After the death of his wife, Machule moved to the residential home at Reichenhaller Strasse 7 in Munich, where he died on August 8, 1981.

Works (selection)

Martin Machule was the editor of the Offenhausener building blocks series (Vaterstetten: Arndt). He also wrote under the pseudonym Armin Mechtlau.

• (1952) Companions of my youth . Sonnets. Coburg: Nation Europa Verlag.
• (1968) From the workshop . (Offenhausen building blocks 13a). Vaterstetten: Arndt.
• (1968) The Song of Daily Life . (Offenhausen building blocks 13c). Vaterstetten: Arndt.
• (1968) Seven Circle . Poems. Berlin: Kusserow.
• (1968) (editor, with Friedrich Scheerer). Against the after-artists in painting, sculpture, music and poetry. A poetic argument . (Offenhausen building blocks 12a). Vaterstetten: Arndt.
• (1969) (editors). End time. German poetry after 1945 . Frankfurt: home rider.
• (1969) Duty calls us. Poems of time . (Offenhausen building blocks 23). Vaterstetten: Arndt
• (1969) Verses of Resistance . Vaterstetten: Arndt.
• (1969) Wild wolves broke through the gate . Narrative. Krems ad Donau: Heimatland-Verlag.
• (1970) Ariadne thread. A short course through the realms of pleasure and horror of new German poetry . Stetten: building block publishing house.
• (1970) Fire call against the molesters of the Temple of the Muses . Stetten: building block publishing house.
• (1971) (pseudonym: Armin Mechtlau). Des Infernos XXXV. Singing .
• (1972) The Window Viewer . Poems. Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1972) Rock and Sand . Narrative. Stetten: building block publishing house.
• (1972) Hymn to the noble woman Musica . Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1972) Prussian Elegy . Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1973) Steps, My Way as a Poet . Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1974) That I could not be helped on earth . Narrative. Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1975) German fates 1945 . Stories. Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1975) Shadows of the Night . Poems. Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1976) Acknowledgments . Poems. (Collection of Silberblatt 9). Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1976) Corrupted before God's eyes and full of iniquity, a dramatic parable in 4 acts . Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1977) A German journey into hell. In 20 chants. Terzines of grief and death . Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1979) Fatum Germanicum. A symphony in 4 wreaths of sonnets . Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1979) Bent over and unknown . Narrative. Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1980) The Wrong Arm of the Pliers or the Doom of November 1940 . Munich: Ledermüller.
• (1980) Hearth Fire . Poems. Munich: Ledermüller.

Secondary literature

• Lutzhöft, Hans-Jürgen (1971). The Nordic Thought in Germany 1920–1940 . (Kiel Historical Studies 14). Stuttgart: Velcro.
• Reiter, Andrea (1990). "The poetry of the 'Dichterstein Offenhausen' as an example of the continuity of anti-modern poetry in Austria after 1945". In: Zeitgeschichte 18 (5/6) pp. 155–171.
• Schuder, Werner (ed.) (1973). "Machule, Martin (Ps. Armin Mechtlau)". In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1973 . Fifty-sixth vintage. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter.
• Stüssi, Anna (1986). "Martin Machule (Ps. Armin Mechtlau)". In: German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-Bibliographical Handbook . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch. Third, completely revised edition. Volume 10 Lucius - Myss. Bern / Munich: Francke. P. 191.
• Zelnhefer, Siegfried (2002) The party rallies of the NSDAP in Nuremberg . (Series of publications by the Documentation Center Reichsparteigelände 2). Nuremberg Press Publishing House.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Machule, Martin (1973). Steps, my way as a poet . Munich: Ledermüller. P. 9.
2. ^ Zelnhefer, Siegfried (2002) The Nazi Party Rallies in Nuremberg . (Series of publications by the Documentation Center Reichsparteigelände 2). Nuremberg Press Publishing House. P. 37.
3. ↑ Machule, Martin (1973). Steps, my way as a poet . Munich: Ledermüller. P. 10.
4. ^ Reiter, Andrea (1990). "The poetry of the 'Dichterstein Offenhausen' as an example of the continuity of anti-modern poetry in Austria after 1945". In: Zeitgeschichte 18 (5/6) pp. 155–171.
5. ↑ Machule, Martin (1973). Steps, my way as a poet . Munich: Ledermüller. Pp. 12-15.
6. ^ Reiter, Andrea (1990). "The poetry of the 'Dichterstein Offenhausen' as an example of the continuity of anti-modern poetry in Austria after 1945". In: Zeitgeschichte 18 (5/6) p. 157 ff.
7. ↑ Lutzhöft, Hans-Jürgen (1971). The Nordic Thought in Germany 1920–1940 . (Kiel Historical Studies 14). Stuttgart: Velcro. P. 407.