Maximilian Böttcher

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Maximilian Böttcher (born June 20, 1872 in Schönwalde , † May 16, 1950 in Eisenach ) was a German writer.

Life

The merchant's son became a journalist and freelance writer after studying agriculture. He married and lived in Berlin, where a son was born in 1895. In the two decades up to the First World War, Böttcher produced around 50 works, including over 20 plays, mostly comedies, and 13 novels. In 1908 he founded the Classical Theater for the higher education institutions . From 1924 to 1926 he was editor of the German Weidwerk , the organ of the General German Hunting Protection Association . Living in Eisenach from 1930, he wrote hunting books and animal stories, such as the love story under deer, Hochzeit im Moor , where he competed with the better-known Hermann Löns , and also plays and novels with social and historical motifs.

The comedy Krach im Hinterhaus , set in Berlin, was a great theatrical success in the 1936/37 season. According to Joseph Goebbels, the “not very sympathetic image of residents of the Reich capital” came out in 1935 under Veit Harlan's direction as a film Krach im Hinterhaus with a star cast and music by Will Meisel . In 1937, Böttcher joined the NSDAP. In 1939 he made his comedy Krach im Vorderhaus , which was filmed in 1941 under the direction of Paul Heidemann with music by Walter Kollo . The Goethe Medal for Art and Science applied for for his 70th birthday in 1942 was rejected.

After 1945, new editions of several works by Maximilian Böttcher appeared in West Germany , most recently in 1989 the novel Krach im Hinterhaus . The play was occasionally staged and filmed again in 1949 under the direction of Erich Kobler . In 1966 the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast a television film of the same name with a story that Hans Schubert had moved to Vienna .

In 1953, in the German Democratic Republic , Böttcher's works, Lords of Yesterday and Tomorrow , The Stronger Blood , Ewige Sehnsucht , the 1942 edition of Krach im Vorderhaus and the 1943 edition of Die Wolfrechts were on the list of literature to be sorted out .

Böttcher's son Helmuth Maximilian Böttcher also became a writer and called himself in contrast to his father Helmuth M. Böttcher . Maximilian Böttcher was buried in the grave of the father of his daughter-in-law, Paul Reuss (founder of the Kyffhäuserhütte and the Hörselwerke ) in Eisenach.

Works

  • The Blankenburgs. Novel . Sunlicht Verlag, Rheinau b. Mannheim, undated (around 1900)
  • Do you want to be a judge? . Grethlein & Co., Leipzig, Berlin, Frankfurt a. M., Paris 1911
  • The love festival of the forest baron. A hunting paradise. Ernst Keil's successor (August Scherl), Leipzig 1923
  • Tauroggen. The drama of Yorck and his officers. A play out of Prussia's need and uprising. Kyffhäuser Verlag, Berlin 1923
  • The German Weidwerk Hohes Lied. For the fiftieth anniversary of the ADJV Verlag of the General German Hunting Protection Association, Berlin 1925.
  • All around the hunting year . Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1929
  • Animals and people. From six decades of strong and happy life. Tradition Wilhelm Kolk, Berlin 1932
  • Gentlemen from yesterday - and tomorrow. Novel based on the diary of the German Thomas Wolfrecht. Philipp Kühner, Eisenach 1933
  • The stronger blood . Philipp Kühner, Eisenach 1934
  • Noise in the Secret Annex. Comedy in three acts. Philipp Kühner, Eisenach 1934
  • Noise in the Secret Annex. Novel . Buchwarte-Verlag Lothar Blanvalet, Berlin 1936 (Goldmann, 1989, ISBN 3-442-07249-2 )
  • Wedding in the moor. One free love and death . Philipp Kühner, Eisenach 1933
  • Noise in the front building. A Berlin novel. Aufwärts-Verlag Maxim Klieber, Berlin 1939 (6th edition)
  • Laughter in the forest. Inconsistencies and rhymes about animals and people . Antäus, Leipzig undated (1940)
  • The Wolfrechts. German novel. Antäus, Lübeck, Leipzig 1940
  • Eternal longing . Antäus-Verlag, Lübeck 1942

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabine Landmann, Stefan Wolter, Jensen Zlotowicz: Villas in Eisenach, Rhino-Verlag Arnstadt 1997, p. 220
  2. ^ Goebbels quote from Bogusław Drewniak: The theater in the Nazi state . Droste, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-7700-0635-6 , p. 214, the rejection of the Goethe Medal (below) p. 157
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture 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. 64.
  4. ^ Bogusław Drewniak: The German Film 1938–1945. A complete overview . Droste, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-7700-0731-X , p. 214
  5. ^ Note in the Internet Movie Database
  6. ^ Note in the Internet Movie Database
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-b.html
  8. ^ Sabine Landmann, Stefan Wolter, Jensen Zlotowicz: Villas in Eisenach, Rhino-Verlag Arnstadt 1997, p. 220
personal data
SURNAME Böttcher, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönwalde (Wandlitz)
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1950
Place of death Eisenach