Olaf Saile

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Olaf Saile (born August 27, 1901 in Weitingen , Oberamt Horb , Kingdom of Württemberg ; † June 29, 1952 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German writer .

Career

As editor of the " Rathenower Zeitung" and social democrat , Olaf Saile was arrested on the basis of the ordinance of the Reich President for the protection of the people and the state of February 28, 1933 on June 22, 1933 and taken to the Oranienburg concentration camp because he spoke and written publicly had spoken out against Nazi rule. His later second wife, Käthe Lambert , was able to get into the camp with the help of her press card and published a heavily embellished report on the conditions there, whereupon Olaf Saile was released. However, he was banned from working, moved to Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt , founded the Süddeutsche Kulturkorrespondenz, which existed until 1937, at the end of 1933, and kept himself and his family afloat with literary works. As a freelance writer, he was then able to work at the Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart. The poem Choir of the Fallen, printed in November 1935, is entirely in line with the militarization of Germany pursued by the Nazi regime since March 1935 with the reintroduction of conscription. In it, the poet lets dead soldiers of the First World War hear a roar over their mass graves and coffins, like the march of columns that have won the battle after all, and finally - awakened from death - proclaim:

“March on, comrades, we're coming, we're coming!
Death has not yet taken our love from us,
Should Germany, should Germany destroy?
We're coming - to die again! "

Saile's novel And it's summer again was publicly praised in 1937 at the ceremonial awarding of the Swabian Poets' Prize by the Württemberg Prime Minister and Minister of Culture, Christian Mergenthaler . The anthology Swabian Narrators published by him in the same year, a copy of which was sent by Verlag Fleischhauer & Spohn, Stuttgart, with the request for kind support to Adolf Hitler's private law firm, also met with a positive response in the Nazi press. Before the outbreak of war in 1939 he moved to Esslingen, where he built a house. After 1945 he was appointed mayor of Unteruhldingen / Bodensee. In the Stuttgarter Nachrichten , which appeared from the end of 1946 , he was in charge of the feature section until it was replaced by Kurt Honolka in July 1949. He died in his study in Esslingen, sitting at his desk. His grave is in the Sankt Bernhardt cemetery in Esslingen.

His fictional Kepler biography can be understood as a disguised protest against the Nazi regime. The book was published in New York in 1940 under the title Troubadour of the Stars . It was translated by James A. Galston .

Works

  • (Ed.) Swabian storytellers , Fleischhauer & Spohn, Stuttgart 1937
  • And it will be summer again . Fleischhauer & Spohn, Stuttgart 1937
  • Kepler. Novel of a turning point , Fleischhauer & Spohn, Stuttgart 1938
  • On dealing with Swabians , EG Seeger, Stuttgart 1950

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Newspaper publishing house. Journal for the entire newspaper industry 38 (1937), p. 657.
  2. ^ Olaf Saile: Chorus of the Fallen. In: Württemberg. Monthly in the service of the people and homeland. Edited by August Lämmle and Georg Schmückle . Vol. 7, 1935, p. 489.
  3. ↑ The Swabian Poet Award 1937. In: Salzburger Volksblatt. Episode 265 of November 18, 1937, pp. 7-8, p. 8 ( online at ANNO ).
  4. ↑ Thomas Garke-Rothbart: "... vital for our business ..."  Georg von Holtzbrinck as a publishing entrepreneur in the Third Reich (Archive for the History of the Book Industry. Studies, Vol. 7). Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-598-24906-8 , p. 166 Fig. 23 ( online as PDF ).
  5. ^ Wilhelm Gall: Swabian storytellers (review). In: Völkischer Beöbachter. Vienna edition. No. 283 of October 10, 1939, p. 4 ( online at ANNO ).
  6. ↑ Peter Köpf: Writing in any direction. Goebbels propagandists in the West German post-war press. Berlin 1995 ISBN 3-86153-094-5 , p. 67.
personal data
SURNAME Saile, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Weitingen , Kingdom of Württemberg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1952
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Federal Republic of Germany