Natalie Beer

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Natalie Beer at the presentation of the Silver Medal in 1975

Natalie Emilia Beer (born June 17, 1903 in Au im Bregenzerwald , † October 31, 1987 in Rankweil ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Origin and family

Natalie Beer was born in 1903 in Au as the daughter of the businessman Josef Anton Beer (* 1873) and his wife Maria Eugenia, née Bachmann (* 1880). She comes from the traditional Beer family .

Her fiancé fell in World War II . She remained childless.

She was in correspondence with her relative and director of the Bregenz Festival, Ernst Bär , and reported, among other things, in an essay in 1954 about the premieres at the festival.

Act

Natalie Beer grew up in Au and attended elementary school there. In 1924 the family moved to Rankweil. She went to business school in Bregenz for a year and then helped in her parents' business for over 10 years, then after the business went bankrupt in shops and hotels in the area. She also hired herself as a domestic help and worked around 1937 in Frankfurt , Munich and Lindau , among others . At a young age she met Grete Gulbransson , whom she visited several times.

She was enthusiastic about Adolf Hitler early on ; Among other things, she wrote the article “When I saw the Führer for the first time” in the Vorarlberger Tagblatt in 1938 ; and joins the NSDAP as a party candidate in 1938 (party member from 1940 to 1945). In 1938 she applied for admission to the Reichsschrifttumskammer and became an exempt member at the end of 1939 . As part of her convictions, she resigned from the church. Later she is controversial both because of her function as "Gau Department Head for Press and Propaganda" at the Nazi women's association in the Innsbruck Gauamt, which she probably held from 1939 to 1945, and because of apologetic remarks from the post-war period on National Socialism . In Innsbruck she tried to catch up on her Abitur and attended lectures at the University of Innsbruck.

At the end of the war she became unemployed and went to the Ziegerberg in Montafon for two years . There she gave sewing courses and did charitable work. After the war she worked as a secretary for the management of the Dornbirn trade fair . She also works for Radio Dornbirn under the pseudonym Ursula Berngath . From 1951 she published again as a freelancer under the former National Socialist Franz Ortner for the Vorarlberger Nachrichten . In 1975 she was awarded the poet's stone shield from the Dichterstein Offenhausen association, which was banned in 1999 due to being re-employed by the National Socialists .

Natalie Beer has published poetry , "homebound" stories and novels . She also wrote under the pseudonym Fred Lugenau .

Natalie Beer died in 1987 after a long and serious illness.

Critical consideration of the person

Natalie Beer was a sympathizer of the Third Reich until her death . In her 1983 autobiography, she raved about Hitler and advocated the ideas associated with National Socialism. So they later called like-minded people who "crawled to the cross" afterwards, "traitors". She also saw advantages in National Socialism and praised the Nazi era as the "seven most beautiful and richest years". She downplayed Auschwitz and saw responsibility for the war with England.

She had attended the lectures of Adolf Helbok at the University of Innsbruck as a guest auditor to achieve her Abitur , which had a lasting ideological influence on her. Later she was discovered by Hans Nägele as a "local writer" and moved to the newly emerging National Socialist camp in Vorarlberg together with Ida Bammert-Ulmer. In 1933 they founded the “Association of Vorarlberg Writers”, which joined the Reich German Association instead of the “ Protection Association of German Writers in Austria ”.

Clearly fascist traits can be found in her work Der Urahn and, among other things, the Nazi image of women both in Der Urahn and in Der Traum des Weibes .

In her role in the National Socialist Women's Association, she was also responsible for setting up National Socialist children's groups. The main focus for her was that the children learn to be German , experience first camaraderie and commitment .

After the war, like other like-minded people (e.g. the anti-Semitic hate preacher Bruno Amann and the Nazi journalist Ida Bammer-Ulmer), she was hired by the former National Socialist Hermann Rhomberg as a secretary at the Dornbirner Messe. In her autobiography she reports a publication ban, which cannot be clearly proven. She placed her publications in the right-wing Leopold-Stocker-Verlag, among others . Her appointment as professor was honored in the right-wing extremist Eckartbote , for whom she also worked as an author.

Despite her convictions, she is considered the Vorarlberg writer with the greatest public recognition. Neither Klaus Amann in The Austrian Nazi Parnass. Literature business in the 'Ostmark' (1938–1945) still Karl Müller caesura without consequences. The long life of literary anti-modernism in Austria since the 1930s shows Natalie Beer as a prominent Nazi author.

Appreciation

Her home town Rankweil has set up a Natalie Beer Museum in her honor.

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

Poems

  • Ascent , 1932
  • Frühicht , in the Völkischer Beobachter 1935
  • Woman's Dream , 1947
  • The bronze scales. Poems from Fifteen Years , 1951
  • To the greats of the world , 1955
  • Because I love you. A funerary gift , 1958
  • In passing , 1961
  • Into the face of time , 1971
  • The Singing Hills , 1976
  • Being a guest in life , 1977
  • The village in autumn , 1979
  • Spoken in the day , 1980
  • Song of the Landscape , 1982
  • Life's delusion and risk , 1985

Novels

  • Little childhood , 1941
  • Fate on Vögin. A Bregenz Forest novel , 1942 (inspired by Erwin Guido Kobenheyer's Paracelsus trilogy and published in three editions in 1942, 1943 and 1944 in the NS-Gauverlag Innsbruck)
  • The ancestor , 1943
  • Wanderer through your own heart. Family novel from the Kleiner Walsertal , 1954 (new edition 1959 under the title ... and leads him a different way , new edition 1974 under the title Das restless heart )
  • Prophet and Sibylle , 1956 (2nd edition under the title When the stars darken )
  • I'm looking for people , 1960
  • Cheering the Stones , 1964
  • Mathis the Painter. A Matthias Grünewald novel , 1970
  • Sand in an hourglass , 1974
  • When the sun was still shining. Novel of my youth , 1978
  • Lavender blooms in the garden , 1980
  • unfinished: The last Landammann

Spectacles

  • Man's fault , 1947
  • Cheering the Stones , 1965

Other works

  • The children's group of the Nazi women in the Gau Tirol-Vorarlberg , In: Bergland, 1941
  • The Shepherdess of Tilisuna , Tales, 1951
  • The bronze scales. Poems from Fifteen Years , 1951
  • Always the white cloud. A shepherd's legend , 1954
  • And found the child in the crib , Stories, 1968
  • Small trip without Nepomuk. A trip to the south , 1971
  • The smile of the Madonna Hodigitria. The Man with the Carnation , Stories, 1975
  • 's Lisabethle goht of d' Reis, story in Vorarlberg dialect , 1977
  • The little donkey trotting , 1977
  • The burning rose bush. Memoirs , 1983
  • Walther's Christmas carol , handwritten design with illustrations by Konrad Honold , 1983
  • Finds along the way of life. Stories, sketches, poems , 1983

Memberships (selection)

literature

  • Emil Brenner: German History of Literature , Leitner, 1960, p. 291
  • Armin Hartmann: Professor Natalie Beer †. A patriot of the Bregenzerwald. In: Bregenzerwald booklet. Vol. 7, 1988, pp. 114-122.
  • Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 239.
  • Christoph König: Provincial literature. Positions of Vorarlberg's prose in a synchronous view (= Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies / Germanistic series. 20). Institute for German Studies, Innsbruck 1984.
  • Ulrike Längle : Max Riccabona and Natalie Beer - Two antipodes of the post-war period , lecture organized by the Franz Michael Felder Archive, Bregenz, 2005.
  • Gudrun Reidel: The historical novels by Natalie Beer. House work. University of Innsbruck, 1983.
  • Roger Vorderegger: The bound self. On Natalie Beer's early poetry. In: Yearbook of the Franz-Michael-Felder-Archive. No. 6, 2005, pp. 83-96.
  • Harald Walser: »... not the last?« The Beer case and Vorarlberg's cultural policy . In: Commons. An Alemannic magazine . No. 9, 1984, pp. 169-174.

estate

Natalie Beer's estate is kept in the Franz Michael Felder archive of the Vorarlberg State Library in Bregenz.

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ Personalities of Europe: Austria . Iatas-Verlag, 1975 ( google.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b Hans Weiss, Krista Federspiel: Who? Kremayr & Scheriau, 1988, ISBN 978-3-218-00475-6 , pp. 16 ( google.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
  3. ^ A b c d Meinrad Pichler: National Socialism in Vorarlberg: victims. Perpetrator. Opponent . StudienVerlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7065-5719-1 ( google.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
  4. ^ Association of Antiquarians Austria: Anzeiger des Österreichischen Buchhandels . Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade, 1987, p. 240 ( google.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
  5. ^ A b c d Meinrad Pichler: Das Land Vorarlberg 1861 to 2015: History of Vorarlberg . Universitätsverlag Wagner, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7030-0913-6 , p. 200 ( google.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
  6. ↑ a b c profile . Wirtschaftstrend Zeitschriftenverlag, July 1983, p. 58 ( google.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Meinrad Pichler, Harald Walser: Die Wacht am Rhein: Everyday life in Vorarlberg during the Nazi era . Vorarlberger Authors Society, 1988, p. 8 ( google.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Beate Böckem, Olaf Peters, Barbara Schellewald: The Biography - Mode or Universal ?: On the history and concept of a genre in art history . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040455-5 ( google.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
  9. ^ Acta Germanica . Institute for German Studies at József Attila University, 1993, p. 203 ( google.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Natalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beer, Natalie Emilia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Au
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1987
Place of death Rankweil