Otto Brues

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Otto Brües (born May 1, 1897 in Krefeld , † April 18, 1967 in Krefeld) was a German writer.

Life

Otto Brües took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1916 . He then studied German and art history at the universities in Cologne and Bonn . He broke off this course in 1922 and subsequently worked as an editor for the features section of the Kölnische Zeitung , and since 1934 as head of the feature section. He also wrote for the Düsseldorfer Zeitung and, during National Socialism, for the National Socialist cultural magazine Rheinische Blätter . In October 1933 he was one of 88 German writers who signed the pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler . From 1937, Brües was a member of the NSDAP and an officer in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War .

After the end of the war he initially lived in the Upper Bavarian town of Au . In 1950 he moved to Düsseldorf, and from 1955 he lived again in his hometown of Krefeld. From 1953 to 1963 he was a lecturer for theater criticism at the University of Cologne, and he also wrote for the cultural section of the Düsseldorf newspaper Der Mittag . From 1955 he was a freelance writer.

Several of his works were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet zone of occupation and in the German Democratic Republic .

The city of Krefeld set up a “Niederrheinisches Literaturhaus” in the last home of the author, who had been compromised by the Nazis. The writer's daughter, the art historian Eva Brües , had bequeathed her parents' house to the city on condition that they set up a corresponding cultural institution there.

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Otto Brües' work includes novels, short stories, theater reviews, essays , dramas and poems. Many of his works are closely related to his home in the Rhineland and deal with religious and historical topics.

Awards and honors

estate

The estate is in the Krefeld City Archives and in the Lower Rhine literature house Otto-Brües-Haus in Krefeld.

Works

  • German youth and the liberal and national idea , Berlin 1919
  • Foundations of Liberalism , Berlin 1920
  • Student, Liberalism and University Reform , Berlin 1920
  • Walter Flex and his poetry in our time , Berlin 1920
  • Hans Franck: Godiva , Themar i. Door. 1921
  • New German Youth , Berlin 1921
  • Walter Hasenclever , Cologne 1922 (together with Paul Joseph Cremers )
  • The Foxes of God , Frankfurt a. M. 1923
  • Heilandsflur , Frankfurt a. M. 1923
  • Saints, heroes, fools and musicians , Berlin 1923
  • The Prophet von Lochau , Frankfurt a. M. 1923
  • Stab und Stein , Frankfurt a. M. 1923
  • The Albrecht Dürer Game , Frankfurt a. M. 1924
  • Rhenish sonnets , Frankfurt a. M. 1924
  • Two novellas: Klas Pottbäcker. Michael shower weather. , Cologne 1924
  • The paint box , Rudolstadt (Thür.) 1925
  • Seydlitz in Kalkar , Berlin 1925
  • Poems , Berlin 1926
  • Jupp Brand , Berlin 1927
  • The Jugendburg , Berlin 1930
  • The rehearsal and other stories , Berlin 1930
  • The consecration of the boys , Berlin 1930
  • Matthys and Emilia , Koblenz 1931
  • The whale in the Rhine , Leipzig a. a. 1931
  • The return , Berlin 1932
  • The girl from Utrecht , Berlin 1933
  • The trip to the fathers , Berlin 1934
  • Before the storm , Berlin 1934
  • Old Wrangel , Berlin 1935
  • Nansen's hardest hour , Berlin 1935
  • Does the blue foot fly? , Berlin 1935
  • Licht von Thule , Breslau 1936
  • Joy of the heart , Leipzig 1937
  • The clever Mr. Vaz , Berlin 1937
  • Delicate wise men from colorful journeys , Leipzig 1937
  • Marie in the new country , Berlin 1938
  • The Rheinbuch , Berlin a. a. 1938
  • What the Pütt brought to his youngest , Saarlautern 1938
  • The monkeys of the great Friedrich or a story of trade and flag , Berlin 1939
  • The juggler tent , Gütersloh 1939
  • My Christmas book for you , Berlin 1939
  • At the four walls , Cologne 1940
  • Vanderloo's daughters , Munich 1940
  • Bismarck , Cologne 1941 (together with Richard Euringer and Wilhelm Schäfer )
  • The Sonata , Berlin 1941
  • Der Spiegel der Helena , Munich 1941
  • Men and weapons of the German army , Berlin 1941 (with Josef Arens)
  • The golden wings , Munich 1942
  • Klas Pottbäcker , Berlin 1942
  • Wide field of love , Gütersloh 1942
  • We have to pass , Berlin 1942
  • Nordic Symphony , Cologne 1943
  • Moyland Castle , Stuttgart 1943
  • On Popularness , Cologne 1943
  • Brown spindles , Leipzig 1944
  • The forgotten song , Gütersloh 1947
  • Wippsteert , Kempen-Niederrhein 1947
  • The well room , Gütersloh 1948
  • Mother Annens son , Gütersloh 1948
  • Collected dramas , Gütersloh
    • 1. Storm and Silence , 1949
  • The silver chalice , Kempen-Ndrh.
    • 1 (1949)
    • 2 (1949)
  • Simon im Glück , Gütersloh 1949
  • The banquet at the Wapper , Stuttgart 1951
  • The Tubuk cave , Gütersloh 1952
  • Mozart and the Fräulein von Paradis , Tübingen a. a. 1952
  • The umbrella and the painters , Cologne 1952
  • The regained face , Witten / Ruhr 1953
  • Bully and Bordur , Bochum 1954
  • An inventive idea and what became of it , Herne in Westf. 1954
  • Rudi vom Endt , Essen-Kray 1955
  • 75 years of Raiffeisdruckerei GmbH, Neuwied am Rhein , Neuwied 1956
  • Herbert Eulenberg , Düsseldorf 1956
  • Johanna in the tents , Hamburg 1956
  • The clever Anna , Hamburg 1956
  • Louise Dumont , Emsdetten (Westphalia) 1956
  • Nansen , Hamburg 1956
  • Don Juan and the abbot , Rothenburg ob d. Tauber 1957
  • The new Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf 1957 (together with Friedrich Tamms)
  • As far as the earth can reach , Dinslaken 1957
  • With us in the country , Munich 1958
  • Home Secret , Neuss 1959
  • The Gold of the Three Kings , Zurich 1959
  • The Gottorp embassy , Gütersloh 1960
  • The crib carver , Zurich 1960
  • Krefeld, City on the Lower Rhine , Duisburg 1961 (together with Rudolf Holtappel)
  • Who mends a dam ... , Gütersloh 1961
  • Chain and weft , Duisburg 1963
  • The golden house , Gütersloh 1965
  • Honey cake and Picasso , Duisburg 1966
  • The most beautiful crib , Zurich 1966
  • Well roared, lion , Emsdetten / Westf. 1967
  • Moyland Castle , Duisburg 1967
  • And the lark always sang , Duisburg 1967
  • Menander stays in Athens , Hamburg 1969
  • The Christmas tree game , Gütersloh 1970
  • Die Dame , Krefeld 1975
  • The fish on the fishing rod , Gütersloh 1975
  • Master Andreas , Gütersloh 1975
  • The Fathers , Hamburg 1988
  • Elena Gaddi , Krefeld 1994
  • Thomas Mann , Krefeld 1996
  • Between Chiemsee, Wendelstein and Tegernsee , Husum 1997
  • You can see the inside in the outside picture , Krefeld 1998
  • The judgment of the Santo Uffizio , Krefeld 2001
  • The earth lives in eternal creative acts , Düsseldorf 2003
  • About painters and painting on the Lower Rhine , Krefeld 2004

Editing

literature

  • Eva Brües (Ed.): Between the Rhine and the Maas I was young. The writer Otto Brües (1897-1967). Pictures, books, letters, photos, manuscripts, documents. Book accompanying the exhibition from April 23 to May 30, 1997, Historical Archive of the City of Cologne. Otto Brües Circle of Friends. Düsseldorf 1997. (= publications of the Otto-Brües-Freundeskreis; 4) ISBN 3-9803823-3-8
  • Johannes Cladders : Otto Brues. An investigation into the poetry and intellectual history of the Rhineland. Univ. Diss., Bonn 1955.
  • Elfriede Horn: Rooted in the Rhineland. Otto Brües 1.5.1897-18.4.1967. In: dies .: Honored - loved - forgotten? Encounters with 38 poets. Verl. Gutenberg, Melsungen 1985. pp. 47-50.
  • Franz Janssen: Preserving and progressive awareness of values. The Rhenish columnist and narrator Otto Brües. Univ. Diss., Düsseldorf 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 84.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-b.html
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-b.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-b.html
  5. ↑ Krefelds neue Welt der Bücher , Westdeutsche Zeitung, August 30, 2011
  6. ^ Opening: A home for Krefeld literature , article in the Westdeutsche Zeitung from June 15, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Brues, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1967
Place of death Krefeld