Max Wegner (writer)

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Max Wegner (born October 26, 1915 in Holzwickede , † October 22, 1944 in Berghofen , Hesse ) was a German writer .

life and work

Wegner was a writer influenced by National Socialism who wrote during the Nazi era . Wegner became known mainly for his historical novel Borius Wichart , published in 1939 and set at the time of the Counter Reformation . The title figure is based on Liborius Wichard , a mayor of Paderborn at the beginning of the 17th century. In accordance with the ideology of National Socialism, Wichard is portrayed in Wegner's novel as the type of the indomitable and upright German. After 1942 (5th edition) the work received no further editions. In July 1940, published Wegner in the National Socialist Monatsheften the consecration verses vow as a tribute to Adolf Hitler .

Wegner wrote several plays ( The Broken Hands about Tilman Riemenschneider ), novels, stories and poems that were in harmony with the national-national and ideological currents of his time.

He was the editor of the collections We Believe! Young Poetry of the Present (1937) and Mother Earth - Fatherland! The German homeland in stories, poems and pictures (1941).

Max Wegner was buried on October 26, 1944 in Battenberg (Eder). The grave complex still exists in the local parish cemetery in Berghofen in 2005. However, the existing tombstone was not set again until 1984. In this respect, the incorrectly given date of death (October 29, 1944), which can be read on the tombstone, should be explained.

After the end of the Second World War, Wegner's writings became Tilmann Riemenschneider. The German, artist and rebel (Pfeiffer, Landsberg 1937), duty (Truckenmüller, Stuttgart 1939), boys and girls in war (with Willi Dißmann ; Schneider , Berlin 1941), mother earth, fatherland (Truckenmüller, Stuttgart 1942), we believe! Young poetry of the present (Truckenmüller, Stuttgart 1942) as well as the Ewiger Quell (Truckenmüller, Stuttgart 1943) published by him were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

Works (selection)

  • The broken hands. A Tilman Riemenschneider story , Landsberg 1937.
  • Borius Wichart. Novel from the Counter Reformation , Stuttgart: Truckenmüller 1939.
  • Mandatory. A ring. Stories , Stuttgart: Truckenmüller 1939
  • The fruit grows in thunderstorms. Three stories by Matthias Grünewald, Tilman Riemenschneider, Jörg (Jerg) Ratgeb , Stuttgart: Truckenmüller 1940
  • Mother earth - fatherland. The German homeland and its people in stories and pictures , Stuttgart: Truckenmüller o. J.
  • The German. Artist and rebel , Stuttgart: Truckenmüller 1943.
  • The seeds of freedom. Stories , Berlin: Ährenlese 1943.
  • Tilman Riemenschneider. Time, people and work , Stuttgart: Truckenmüller 1943.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 649.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-w.html
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-d.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-w.html
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-q.html
personal data
SURNAME Wegner, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Holzwickede
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1944
Place of death Berghofen