Otto Gründler (journalist)

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Otto Gründler (born November 7, 1894 in Königsberg , East Prussia , † 1961 ) was a German journalist, editor, editor-in-chief, writer and publicist.

Life

Gründler, a stepson of the writer, book illustrator and graphic artist Alfred Kubin (1877–1969), visited the free school community of Wickersdorf near Saalfeld in the Thuringian Forest , founded by Gustav Wyneken , between August 1907 and March 1914 , where he a. a. close friends with Otto Braun and Ernst Putz . There he worked on the legendary and notorious youth magazine Der Anfang . He put his exam as external to the secondary school in the Thuringian Sonneberg , and then studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich , where 1922 he on elements of a religious philosophy on a phenomenological basis doctorate .

Between 1921 and 1926 he worked as an editor for the Catholic monthly Hochland . In 1925, together with Tim Klein (1870–1944) and Friedrich Langenfaß, he founded the monthly Zeitwende with the CH Beck'sche publishing house in Munich , which he edited with Helmuth Schreiner and later managed with Wolfgang Böhme . He corresponded for example with Jürgen Eggebrecht , Paul Ernst , Hermann Frobenius , Friedrich Gogarten , Hasso Härlen , Karl Hampe , Gerhart Hauptmann , Bernt von Heiseler , Alfred Kubin , Arnold Oskar Meyer , Carl Muth , Herman Nohl , Paul Siebeck and Peter Suhrkamp . In the 1930s he worked for the Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung , u. a. as their chief editor (editor-in-chief).

Publications (selection)

  • Elements of a philosophy of religion on a phenomenological basis . Phil. Diss. Munich. Verlag Josef Kasel & Friedrich Pustet, Munich u. Kempten in the Allgäu 1922.
  • Change of mind . Frankes Buchhandlung, Habelschwerdt 1924.
  • Zeitgeist and Gospel - marginal notes . P. Müller, Munich 1931.
  • How we founded the turning point . In: Evangelische Pressegemeinschaft 8 (1960) VII / VIII July 8, p. 5ff.
  • Girolami Zanchi's doctrine of God and its significance for his doctrine of predestination . (= Contributions to the history of the Reformed Church, Vol. 20) Neukircher Verlag des Erziehungsverein, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1965
  • as translator: Samuel H. Miller: Secularity - Atheism - Faith: An Analysis of Our Time . Neukircher Verlag des Erziehungsverein, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1965

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gründler, Otto (1894-1961) . On: kalliope-verbund-info
  2. ↑ Marc Röbel: amazement and awe. A work-history study of the philosophical thinking of Peter Wust . Berlin 2009, p. 271.
  3. ↑ a b Peter Dudek: “You are and will remain the old abstract ideologue!” The reform pedagogue Gustav Wyneken (1875–1864) - A biography . Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2017. ISBN 978-3781521766 , p. 125.
  4. ^ Dorothee Wierling: A family at war: Living, dying and writing 1914–1918 . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3835313019 .
  5. ↑ Zeitwende (monthly publication) . On: kalliope-verbund.info
  6. ^ Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando: The correspondence with Alfred Kubin 1903 to 1952 . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg u. Vienna 1983. ISBN 978-3701703517 .
  7. ^ Correspondence with the editorial offices of newspapers and magazines . On: kalliope-verbund.info
  8. ^ Letter from Otto Gründler to Gerhart Hauptmann dated November 14, 1935 . In: Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage. On: staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Gründler, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, editor, editor-in-chief, publicist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH 1961