Otto Salomon

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Otto Salomon ( pseudonym Otto Bruder and Otto Johannes Bernt ) (born July 7, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main , † May 17, 1971 in Zollikerberg ) was a German publisher and writer.

Life

Otto Salomon came from a liberal Jewish merchant family; he converted to Christianity and was baptized in 1911.

After receiving a commercial apprenticeship, he began studying acting in Frankfurt am Main in 1913 and became a dramaturge in Bonn in 1914 .

He did his military service during the First World War and was then a student of German and art history at the University of Munich .

From 1922 onwards he headed the Christian Kaiser Verlag in Munich until he emigrated to Switzerland in 1938 ; he was also the editor of Dietrich Bonhoeffer . During his stay in Munich, he met the philosophy student Helmut Gollwitzer , with whom he became friends.

On September 24, 1939, in Zollikon, he met the theologian Karl Barth , with whom he had already been in contact through Christian Kaiser Verlag, who was the first general secretary of the Ecumenical Council of Churches , the Dutchman Willem Adolf Visser't Hooft ( 1900–1985), started and wrote an expert opinion, whereupon he worked at the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Geneva from 1939 to 1948 until he was editor at Gotthelf Verlag in Bern from 1947 to 1950. In 1950 he became head of the Zwingli publishing house in Zurich and remained in this position until 1958. In 1954 he was able to convince Klaus Schädelin to publish his Gockel stories with the book Mein Name ist Eugen .

He founded the Flamberg-Verlag (the Flamberg is a sword with a wavy blade that appeared at the beginning of the 15th century, i.e. a so-called flaming sword, with which archangels are often depicted), which was later taken over by the Zwingli-Verlag.

Otto Salomon married Elfriede (née Weber) in 1930, a granddaughter of the theologian Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt , who also had a deep religious influence on him.

Escape to Switzerland

The owner of the Christian Kaiser Verlag, Albert Lempp , who hid Otto Salomon in a hidden back room of the publisher, had contacts with an Austrian border official and helped him escape to Switzerland during a "vacation trip" to Landeck in Tyrol . Karl Barth, whose books were published by Christian-Kaiser-Verlag, was informed about these preparations for escape at an early stage.

Social work

Otto Salomon was the Christian Wandervogel youth movement close and worked in Neuwerk district of Günther Dehn as well with as in, connected thereto, neuhutterischen Bruderhof movement of Eberhard Arnold and his wife Emmy. From July 1920 to January 1922 he was one of the first residents of their farm in Sannerz near Schlüchtern ; However, he left the court because everyone who came was accepted, while a more closed spiritual community seemed necessary to him as the core of the settlement.

During Dietrich Bonhoeffer's stay in Switzerland, he was in contact with Karl Barth by letter; Dietrich Bonhoeffer's correspondence with Karl Barth also went through Otto Salomon's address.

Writing

As a writer Otto Salomon wrote poetry, dramas, novels and stories under the pseudonym Otto Bruder ; he published his poetry under the pseudonym Otto Johannes Bernt. Otto Salomon wrote the Christmas carol Star and Angel, Shepherd and the Wise Men , which Paul Ernst Ruppel set to music in 1967. He also wrote a large number of the sun songs .

His writing The Village on the Mountain was in the list of harmful and undesirable literature of the National Socialists.

honors and awards

In 1959 the University of Zurich appointed Otto Salomon Dr. theol. hc

Fonts (selection)

  • The disease: a diary . Schlüchtern: Neuwerkverlag, 1924.
  • A game by St. Francis: how the word came to him . Schlüchtern: Neuwerk-Verlag, 1926.
  • The ten virgins - a game of readiness . Munich, C. Kaiser, 1926.
  • Otto Salomon; Eduard Reinacher : Voice of the Earth . Munich, C. Kaiser, 1928.
  • Border mark . Munich Chr. Kaiser 1930.
  • From pillar to post . Munich, C. Kaiser, 1931.
  • The legacy, a mythical game . Munich, C. Kaiser, 1932.
  • Luther the Fighter: a choral celebration game . Munich, 1933.
  • The shepherds: a Christmas greeting . Zurich: Rutimann, 1938.
  • The village on the mountain . Zollikon: Verlag der Evangelische Buchhandlung, 1939.
  • Celebrating Congregation: Spiritual Poems and Songs . Zollikon-Zurich: Verlag der Evangelisch Buchhandlung, 1939.
  • Paul Vogt ; Wilhelm Vischer ; Otto Salomon: Jews, Christians, Jewish Christians: A call to Christianity . Zollikon: Verlag der Evangelische Buchhandlung, 1939.
  • Celebrating Congregation - Spiritual Poems and Songs . Zollikon-Zürich Verlag der Evangelische Buchhandlung 1939.
  • Otto Salomon-Weber; Fritz Deringer; A. Kappers; Willem Gerrit Van de Hulst: Helping makes you happy . Zollikon-Zurich: Evangelical Publishing House, 1941.
  • Youth and church . Zollikon Evangelischer Verlag 1941.
  • The eagle and the dove: a story from the early Christian community . Zollikon-Zurich: Evangelischer Verlag 1942.
  • The Raven Hans . Zollikon-Zurich: Evangelischer Verlag, 1946.
  • Living congregations: documents on the structure of the individual congregations in the churches over the past ten years . Zurich: Gotthelf-Verlag, 1947.
  • The island of Trisur . Zurich, Artemis-Verlag 1947.
  • The lovebirds . Zollikon-Zurich: Evangelischer Verlag, 1948.
  • The early church and us: a walk through the Acts of the Apostles by Luke . Zurich: Gotthelf, 1948.
  • Otto Salomon-Weber; Giovanni Müller: The inseparable . Zollikon-Zurich: Evangelischer Verlag 1948.
  • About faith: an evangelical women's game . Zurich: Verlag Junge Kirche, Federation of Protestant Youth in Switzerland, 1948.
  • Bread and salt: the stories of the host . 1948.
  • Daniel on the galley: a Huguenot tale . Basel: Ms. Reinhardt 1949.
  • Johann Christoph Blumhardt; Otto brother; Wolfgang J. Bittner: Selected writings in three volumes: Pastoral care, questions of faith, pastoral care, letters, prayers, songs . Giessen Brunnen-Verlag 1949.
  • On the healings of Blumhardt . Munich, C. Kaiser, 1950.
  • Sky key . Gwatt / Thun Verlag of the young church Schlüchtern / Habertshof Neuwerk-Verlag 1950.
  • Looking for a hostel: A Christmas Eve game based on an old folk game . Kassel; Basel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1950.
  • The letter to the Ephesians: designed for the church . Munich: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1950.
  • The Martyrs of Lyon: A Reformation Game . Munich Chr. Kaiser 1952.
  • God is love: the three letters of John interpreted by Otto Bruder . Zurich: Gotthelf Verlag, 1952.
  • Until He comes: the way of the Church of Christ on earth . Zurich; Frankfurt am Main: Gotthelf-Verlag, 1954.
  • Bittern in the desert . Munich, C. Kaiser, 1954.
  • Pastoral Message: Christmas Stories and Christmas Poems . Zurich; Frankfurt am Main: Gotthelf-Verlag, 1958.
  • The future of the world . Zurich, Zwingli Verlag 1959.
  • Otto brother; Gerd Watkinson : The lost brothers . Munich: Kaiser, 1959.
  • The Grendel . Zurich: Zwingli-Verlag, 1960.
  • Collected works by Otto Bruder . Zurich, Zwingli Verlag 1960.
  • Abolition of Christianity? Zurich: Zwingli Verlag, 1960.
  • Ole Sarvig ; Otto Bruder: Human life . Zurich: Flamberg, 1960.
  • The frail world . Zurich Zwingli Verlag 1961.
  • Evening course . Zurich, Flamberg 1962.
  • The found son: a game at Christmas time . Kassel; Basel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1963.
  • The individual, the church, the world . Zurich: Zwingli Verlag, 1963.
  • Today we're looking forward: a Blumhardt Breviary for every day . Zurich; Stuttgart Zwingli-Verlag 1966.
  • Small Christmas mass . Kassel; Basel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1967.
  • Morning wind . Witten, Berlin Eckart-Verlag, 1968.
  • Vox humana . Munich, Chr. Kaiser 1970.

literature

  • Ludwig and Margrit Hönig (eds.): Otto brother. From his life and work . Evangelical publishing house: Stuttgart 1975. ISBN 3771501695 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Marsh: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The transfigured stranger. A biography . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2015, ISBN 978-3-641-15369-4 ( google.de [accessed on May 15, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Heinrich Rusterholz: “… as if our neighbour's house wasn't on fire”: long subtitle . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-290-17712-6 ( google.de [accessed on May 15, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Otto Salomon. In: albert-lempp.de. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Antje Vollmer: The new work movement: Between youth movement and religious socialism . Verlag Herder GmbH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-451-81021-3 ( google.de [accessed on May 15, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Jörgen Glenthöj, Ulrich Kabitz, Wolf Krötke: Conspiracy and Detention 1940-1945 . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2019, ISBN 978-3-641-10698-0 ( google.de [accessed on May 15, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Otto brother - person | BURNED and EXILED. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Salomon, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brother, Otto (pseudonym); Bernt, Otto Johannes (pseudonym); Salomon-Weber, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1971
Place of death Zollikerberg