Paul Joseph Cremers

Paul Joseph Cremers (also: Joseph Cremers ; * February 8, 1897 in Aachen , † July 14, 1941 in Bonn ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Paul Joseph Cremers was the son of an accountant . He grew up in Cologne and studied German at the University of Bonn . 1921 doctorate he at Berthold Litzmann with a work on Novalis for Doctor of Philosophy . From 1922 to 1937 he was part of the culture department in Essen appearing Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung on. From 1938 he lived in Bonn again .

In addition to his journalistic work, Paul Joseph Cremers was a writer of plays . He achieved great success after 1933 with several editions of the play The Marne Battle , published for the first time in 1925 and rarely performed until 1933 , an adaptation of the events on the western front at the beginning of the First World War , a “weak piece” but “well integrated into the program The National Socialists fit ”(was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War ).

Shortly after the NSDAP “ seized power ”, the regional NSDAP proposed Goebbels and Göring Cremers as State Commissioner for German Culture in the Rhineland and Westphalia. The National Socialist League for German Culture assumed that Cremers was "completely on the ground of National Socialism" and would "always represent a very valuable force in the cultural struggle".

Works

Magical idealism as a poetic problem of form in the works of Friedrich von Hardenberg , Bonn 1921
Walter Hasenclever , Cologne 1922 (together with Otto Brües)
Johannes Greferath , Essen 1925
Muspilli or The Prince of Oahu , Essen 1925
The Marne Battle , Bielefeld and Leipzig 1925
Peter Behrens , Essen 1928
Rhineland tragedy , Berlin 1933
Richelieu, Cardinal Duke of France , Berlin 1934
Banquet of the gods , Berlin 1935
Essen (= German country, German art ). German Art Publishing House, Berlin 1937.
1813 , Berlin 1938
Readiness , Düsseldorf 1940

literature

Carl Enders: Cremers, Paul Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 410 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Joseph Cremers in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry in the "eMuseum" Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

↑ Meinrad Schaab , Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (ed.) U. a .: Handbook of Baden-Württemberg History . Volume 4: Die Länder since 1918. Edited on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-608-91468-4 , p. 181.
↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-c.html .
↑ See: Letter from the Kampfbund for German Culture, Landesleiter Nord-West, Lagemann, to the Acting Minister of Education in Prussia, Rust, March 18, 1933, cited above. based on: Götz Aly / Wolf Gruner / Susanne Heim / Ulrich Herbert / Hans Dieter Kreikamp / Horst Möller / Dieter Pohl / Hartmut Weber (eds.), The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945, vol. 1, Munich 2007, p. 87.

personal data
SURNAME	Cremers, Paul Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cremers, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen
DATE OF DEATH	July 14, 1941
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Meinrad Schaab , Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (ed.) U. a .: Handbook of Baden-Württemberg History . Volume 4: Die Länder since 1918. Edited on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-608-91468-4 , p. 181.

[2] ttp://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-c.html .

[3] See: Letter from the Kampfbund for German Culture, Landesleiter Nord-West, Lagemann, to the Acting Minister of Education in Prussia, Rust, March 18, 1933, cited above. based on: Götz Aly / Wolf Gruner / Susanne Heim / Ulrich Herbert / Hans Dieter Kreikamp / Horst Möller / Dieter Pohl / Hartmut Weber (eds.), The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945, vol. 1, Munich 2007, p. 87.