Max Jungnickel (writer)

Max Jungnickel (born October 27, 1890 in Saxdorf , Liebenwerda district , † January 13, 1945 in Welun , Wartheland ) was a German writer .

Life

Max Jungnickel was the son of a railroad man and a seamstress . After attending elementary school he started in 1904 a teacher training at the preparatory school in Delitzsch , he in 1906 by the relegated was. Jungnickel went to Berlin , where he initially lived in poor conditions. He worked for a magazine and also heard lectures from the literary scholar Erich Schmidt at the university . After his first literary successes, Jungnickel married in 1915; the marriage resulted in two children. At the First World War Jung Nickel took 1915-1918 as a soldier in part; he was wounded and was temporarily missing.

After the end of the war, Max Jungnickel lived again as a freelance writer in Berlin . In the twenties he developed into a sympathizer of the NSDAP . After the National Socialist seizure of power in October 1933 he was one of the signatories of a pledge of loyalty to Hitler . In the same year he published a book on Joseph Goebbels , and other works by Jungnickel that appeared during the Third Reich also have a clear nationalistic and militaristic tendency. Jungnickel, who was able to publish until 1944, has been considered lost since January 1945 .

Max Jungnickel was the author of novels , stories , sketches , plays and poems . His works often have fairytale features and are heavily influenced by German Romanticism and the Danish authors Hans Christian Andersen and Jens Peter Jacobsen . In 1943 Jungnickel was awarded the Halle-Merseburg Gau Culture Prize. After 1945, a total of eight works by Jungnickel, published between 1932 and 1942, were on the " list of literature to be sorted out " in the Soviet zone and the early GDR .

Works

• From a dreamers workshop , Leipzig-Gohlis 1909
• The Heavenly Tailor , Berlin 1913
• The spring soldier , Charlottenburg 1915
• Despite death and tears , Munich 1915
• From officer's coat and other things , Stuttgart 1915
• Out in the field , Munich 1916
• The laughing soldier's book with the thinker's forehead , Munich 1916
• Peter Himmelhoch , Munich 1916
• From spring and everything , Munich 1916
• Into the blue , Munich 1917
• From the papers of a wandering head , romantic sketches. Publisher Franz Schneider, Berlin-Schöneberg, Leipzig 1918
• The blue Marie , Munich 1918
• Jakob Heidebuckel , The Story of a Young Man. Publisher Franz Schneider, Berlin-Schöneberg, Leipzig 1918
• 7 songs , Berlin 1918
• The Mothers , Munich 1918
• The mothers. The dead soldiers. The homecoming. Die Armsten , Munich 1918
• In consecrated places and from the old days , Berlin-Steglitz 1919
• Guests of the alley , Berlin-Schöneberg [u. a.] 1919
• The school prayer , Berlin 1919
• The cloud school , Leipzig 1919
• In the country , Berlin-Steglitz 1920
• Kirchpfennigs , Berlin 1920
• The heart in the lantern , Leipzig 1921
• Children , Munich 1921
• Colorful homesickness , Munich 1921
• People on Himmelsstrasse , Munich 1921
• Peter Himmelhoch and other seals , Munich 1921
• Peter Himmelhoch and Der Sternenkantor , Munich 1921
• Grille and Notenkopf , Leipzig 1922
• The puppeteer on the blue tit , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1922
• The year in the life of children , Mainz 1923 (together with Hans Friedrich)
• The tired house , a circus novel. Publishing house Adolf Sponholtz, Hanover 1923
• The foolish reader , Berlin 1923
• Sorge 13 , Vienna 1923
• The Vogelkantor or The Soul of the Educator , Querfurt 1923
• Cabusen's dream trip , Munich 1924
• Michael Spinnler , The novel of a longing, published by Adolf Sponholtz, Hanover 1924
• From wind and sky , poems. Publishing house Adolf Sponholtz, Hanover 1925
• The Käthe Kruse picture book , Munich 1925 (together with Käthe Kruse)
• My picture book , Mainz 1925 (together with Franz Wacik)
• Miracle around the Schusterkugel , Neustadt b. Koburg 1925
• Blind gray horse, blue pot and the sword of Konradin , Stuttgart 1926
• The trip to the picture book house , Mainz 1926
• Lights in the wind, novel by Adolf Sponholtz, Hanover 1926
• Max Jungnickel booklet , Mühlhausen i. Door. 1926
• The Enchanted School Lesson , Breslau 1926
• The clock hostel , Berlin-Zehlendorf 1927
• Burning scythe , Bad Pyrmont 1928
• The Schnurrpfeil and the others , Berlin 1928
• Christian Pilgram and his Ulrike and other stories , Reutlingen 1929
• The slide into the mouse hole , Berlin 1929
• Sulamith Wülfing, Dürer's little daughter , Elberfeld 1929 (together with Sulamith Wülfing )
• The Fair of God , Leipzig 1931
• Fillafalla , Leipzig 1932
• Falling off the calendar , Leipzig 1932
• People and Fatherland , Berlin 1932
• Goebbels , Leipzig 1933
• The cold wolf , Leipzig 1933
• The message , Leipzig 1933
• Faces in the fire of the world war , Berlin [u. a.] 1935
• The little unfinished , Berlin 1935
• A little boy laughs into life , Gütersloh 1935
• Hidden World , Berlin-Grunewald 1935
• Little Tomma is amazed at the world , Gütersloh 1936
• The wings of the soul , Weimar 1936
• Faces on the way , Stuttgart 1937
• Myth of the Soldier , Berlin 1938
• Capella Maidron , Halle 1939
• Earth Command , Berlin 1939
• Flying Grenadiers , Berlin 1940
• The sword in the constellation , Freiburg i. Br. 1941
• You are blown away, Zerlina! , Freiburg i.Br. 1942
• Peter and the Hour X , Berlin 1942
• Steen and his Phoebe , Berlin 1943
• In Napoleon's bed and other short stories , Berlin 1944
• The Sparrow of Catullus , Freiburg i.Br. 1944

Editing

• Matthias Claudius : The Wandsbecker Bote , Jena 1925

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Jungnickel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Jungnickel has been missing since January 1945; the date of death corresponds to the information in the German biographical encyclopedia. Volume 5, 2006, p. 424