Paul Madsack

Paul Madsack (born August 21, 1881 in Reval , Russian Empire ; † on May 13 or May 15, 1949 in Hanover ) was a German journalist , painter , writer and lawyer .

Life

Paul Madsack was born in Reval during the German Empire as the son of the newspaper publisher August Madsack . He grew up mostly in Hanover. He was the older brother of Erich Madsack .

He attended Lyzeum II, today's Goethe Gymnasium , and after graduating from high school, studied law at the University of Munich , the University of Bonn , the University of Heidelberg and the Georg-August University in Göttingen . After traineeship and doctorate to become Dr. jur. he first worked as a judge at the Hanover Regional Court and as a lawyer for his father's company.

Madsack also began training as a painter in Fischerhude and Worpswede and completed it in Paris in 1913 . Around this time he made friends with the artist Otto Modersohn .

During the First World War Madsack served as a soldier in France and Spain , where he was also able to “devote himself intensively to painting”. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the French and then interned in Switzerland . He described his war experiences in the first book Vae victis… published in 1918 .

In 1926 Madsack became head of the feature pages of the daily newspaper Hannoverscher Anzeiger, founded by his father . In addition, he repeatedly worked as a lawyer, writer and painter. Madack made his artistic interests a top priority. He wrote "[...] bizarre, little-noticed novels " such as Der Schwarz Magier in 1924 or Die Metaphysische Wachsfigur ... in 1930 . His most demanding work was published in 1931 under the title Tamotua. The city of the future . The illustrations to his works created Madsacks friend Alfred Kubin . His pictures were shown at exhibitions in the Kestner Society in 1926 and 1931 .

Even after the handover of power to the National Socialists , Madsack remained head of the features section of the Hanover Gazette . After the membership ban had ended , he became a member of the NSDAP in 1937 and was temporarily a sponsoring member of the SS . In March 1943 the Anzeiger was merged with the Lower Saxony daily newspaper (Kampfblatt für den National Socialismus) .

Paul Madsack died in Hanover in 1949 and was buried in the family grave at the Engesohde city cemetery .

Book Vae Victis (1918)
Book cover
Book illustration: Port of Ploumanac'h
Book illustration: Bridge over the Guadaíra
Book illustration: Captivity in Lyon

Fonts (selection)

Uae victis. My experiences in Spain and France during the world war. 268 pages with drawings and 4 illustrations, part of the World War II collection of the Deutsche Bücherei . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1918; contents
The black magician. A novel in black and white. [JG] Holzwarth, Bad Rothenfelde 1924.
The metaphysical wax figure or On Ghost Catch with Sir Arthur Doyle . A magical grotesque . With 32 printed drawings by Alfred Kubin. Georg Müller, Munich 1930 [1929 edition].
Tamotua. The city of the future. Novel. With 36 drawings by Alfred Kubin. Georg Müller, Munich 1931 [edition 1930].

literature

Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon , Vol. 10 (1986), column 207.
Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's struggles with modernity in the Weimar Republic. At the same time, dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art. In the series Hannoversche Studies, series of publications by the Hannover City Archives , Volume 5. Hahn, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , pp. 461–472.
On the death of Paul Madsack. Obituary in Die Zeit , No. 30/1949
Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 vols. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 . Volume 2, p. 875.
Jens Flemming , Nadine Freund: The Madsacks and the "Hannoversche Anzeiger": a middle-class city newspaper between the German Empire and National Socialism, 1893–1945. Goettingen

Web links

Commons : Paul Madsack - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Madsack, Paul in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) on the website of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version dated February 17, 2016
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Hugo Thielen : Madsack, (3) Paul. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 242f.
↑ Erich Rosendahl : Lower Saxony literary history. Lax, Hildesheim / Leipzig 1932, p. 277.
^ Jochen Mangelsen: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Hannoverscher Anzeiger: Investigation into the development of a daily newspaper since its foundation in 1893: a contribution to the newspaper history of the last seventy-five years. Ernst-Reuter-Ges., Berlin 1968, p. 196.
↑ The Long Way of the Madsacks - Historians work on family and company history. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine, September 30, 2019
^ Journal database : Niedersächsische Tageszeitung - Kampfblatt für den Nationalozialismus

personal data
SURNAME	Madsack, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist, painter and writer and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reval
DATE OF DEATH	May 13, 1949 or May 15, 1949
Place of death	Hanover

[1] Madsack, Paul in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) on the website of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version dated February 17, 2016

[HBL-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Hugo Thielen : Madsack, (3) Paul. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 242f.

[3] Erich Rosendahl : Lower Saxony literary history. Lax, Hildesheim / Leipzig 1932, p. 277.

[4] Jochen Mangelsen: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Hannoverscher Anzeiger: Investigation into the development of a daily newspaper since its foundation in 1893: a contribution to the newspaper history of the last seventy-five years. Ernst-Reuter-Ges., Berlin 1968, p. 196.

[5] The Long Way of the Madsacks - Historians work on family and company history. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine, September 30, 2019

[6] Journal database : Niedersächsische Tageszeitung - Kampfblatt für den Nationalozialismus