Martin Raschke

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Martin Raschke (born November 4, 1905 in Dresden , † November 24, 1943 at Newel in the Soviet Union ) was a German writer and publicist. Pseudonyms were Otto Merz and Peter Anders.

Life

Grave of Martin Raschke in the Loschwitz cemetery

Raschke studied literature in Leipzig, Berlin and Munich. In the twenties, as co-editor of the school magazine MOB, belonging to the anti-bourgeois circle around Rudolf Braune , Raschke became known to a larger readership around 1930 through his contributions to Die literäre Welt . Between 1929 and 1932 he and Artur Kuhnert edited the literary magazine Die Kolonne , in which Günter Eich , Peter Huchel , Horst Lange , Elisabeth Langgässer , Eberhard Meckel and other young poets also published. After 1933, Raschke wrote numerous radio plays as an author . In 1938 he edited Ludwig Körner's and Hermann Dimmler's "Winnetou" text book.

In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a war correspondent . After being seriously wounded, he died in Russia in 1943.

In the 1920s, Raschke wrote natural poetry, which is classified as magical realism . In 1935 he himself described his concerns in retrospect: “I had to feel early on how destroyed the social, ethnic and religious ties between people were. Since then I have been constantly concerned with how this bond could be reestablished. ” He welcomed the National Socialist seizure of power and published scenic-dialogical texts and radio plays on the radio which, with their glorification of the national community and comradeship, were in line with National Socialist propaganda . Shortly before his death in 1943, he affirmed the "total war": "Annihilation has us in its service." Despite attempts to flee in the direction of nature and homeland writer (see essay Der Zauber Dresdens ), Raschke got entangled in the National Socialist ideology.

Raschke married Jutta Lucchesi in 1930. He had two daughters Agnes (* 1936) and Sophia (* 1938).

Works (selection)

  • The magic of Dresden (essay)

Novels

  • 1930 fever of the time
  • 1936 The unequal sisters
  • 1938 The cloud hero

stories

  • 1930 Ascension to Earth
  • 1934 The heir
  • 1937 return
  • 1940 bitter orange branch
  • 1940 magic of power
  • 1942 Simona
  • 1942 Dialogues in the East

Poetry

  • 1938 10 poems
  • 1942 autumn organ

Honor

In Dresden's Neuostra was Martin Raschke street named after him.

Heinz Czechowski wrote:

As in spring the pink of the peaches
bloomed ... - so Raschke saw it,
One of many,
Dead and forgotten.

literature

  • Andreas Möller: Aurora butterfly and spiral nebula. Natural science and journalism with Martin Raschke 1929-1932 , Frankfurt / Main et al. 2006: Peter Lang (Berlin contributions to the history of science, edited by Wolfgang Höppner, vol. 11).
  • Wilhelm Haefs and Walter Schmitz (eds.): Martin Raschke (1905-1943): Life and work . Dresden 2002: Thelem bei web, Universitätsverlag 2002, SS 59–77, 167–197 and 303–317.
  • Joseph P. Dolan: The role of the column in the development of modern German natural poetry. Ann Arbor: Xerox University Microfilms 1976.
  • Wilhelm Haefs:  Raschke, Martin Gerhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 160 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Hollender: "a dangerous restlessness in the blood ..." Rudolf Braune ... biography ... (pages 1 to 49) (PDF 0.6 MB), Grupello-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-89978-013 -2
  2. ↑ Gert Ueding (Ed.): Karl-May-Handbuch. 2nd expanded and revised edition. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-8260-1813-3 . P. 523
  3. ^ Martin Raschke, Dialogues in the East , Leipzig: Paul List, 1943, p. 92

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personal data
SURNAME Raschke, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merz, Otto (pseudonym); Anders, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1943
Place of death Newel , Soviet Union