Paul Oskar Höcker

Paul Oskar Höcker

Paul Oskar Höcker (born December 17, 1865 in Meiningen , † May 6, 1944 in Rastatt ) was a German editor and writer .

Life

Paul Oskar Höcker was born in Meiningen as the third son of the writer and actor Oskar Höcker . Due to the commitment of his father, Höcker spent his childhood in Karlsruhe . At the age of 19 he moved to Berlin in 1884 , where he graduated from high school .

In the same year, Höcker enrolled at the University of Music and studied composition until 1888. From 1888 to 1889 he did his military service as a one-year volunteer and married Margarete Linke in 1893.

In 1908 he had the architect Emilie Winkelmann build a country house style house in Westend at Lindenallee 21 and from 1928–1929 another one by Alfred Gellhorn at nearby Nussbaumallee 8. The associated garden was designed by the landscape architect Gustav Allinger .

In the early 20th century, he wrote some Lederstrumpf narratives in the style of James Fenimore Cooper for youth. During the First World War he served as a captain in the Landwehr on the western front . Between 1914 and 1918 he acted as editor of the Liller war newspaper and published his war experiences in 1917 under the title Ein Liller Roman .

After the National Socialists came to power , Höcker was one of the 88 writers who signed the pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler in October 1933 . His autobiography, which was published in 1940, with the significant title God Sent Alternating Windes , was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone in 1948 . In the time of National Socialism , Höcker tried to be successful by ingratiation to the system; his “nationalistic kitsch from the pens of the peers, economic knights and followers (such as Paul Oskar Höcker) who watered down the national revolution” was, however, partially indexed.

Paul Oskar Höcker wrote comedies , detective novels , entertainment novels, historical novels and a number of youth stories . He was considered a prolific writer, was extremely successful and some of his novels were made into films. He is the father of Thea Höcker and the musician and writer Karla Höcker .

Work (selection)

• Money marriages. (Roman) Hillger, Berlin et al. 1897.
• Eagle eyes. (Roman) Hillger, Berlin et al. 1898.
• Before the court martial. (Detective novel) Hillger, Berlin et al. 1900.
• Spring storms. (Roman) Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1904.
• Living pictures. (Roman) Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1911.
• The golden ship. (Roman) Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1911.
• Little mom. (Roman) Ullstein, Berlin 1913.
• Music students. (Roman) Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1913.
• The uncrowned king. (Roman) Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1913.
• At the head of my company. Three months of war experiences. Ullstein, Berlin 1914.
• The Indian dancer. (Roman) Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1914.
• The people in arms. Patriotic song game in 4 pictures. Ullstein, Berlin 1914.
• The young excellency. (Roman) Ullstein, Berlin 1915.
• Between the lines. A novel in letters. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1916.
• A Liller novel , Ullstein Co., Berlin 1917.
• The laughing mask. (Roman) Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1917.
• The city in chains. A new Liller novel. Ullstein, Berlin 1918.
• The happy island. Ullstein, Berlin 1919.
• Childhood. Memories. Ullstein, Berlin 1919.
• Carnival. (Roman) Ullstein, Berlin 1920.
• The hero of the evening. (Roman) Scherl, Berlin 1921.
• Don Juan's wife. (Roman) Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1921.
• The man from the street. (Roman) Ullstein, Berlin 1922.
• Lust for home. A novel from the old Potsdam secret council world. Ullstein, Berlin 1922.
• How Schorschel Bopfinger went astray. (Stories) Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1922.
• The blonde danger. (Roman) Ullstein, Berlin 1923.
• Little Tutt and her lovers. (Roman) Ullstein, Berlin 1923.
• Finland. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1923.
• Siren model. (Roman) Scherl, Berlin 1925.
• Dick's upbringing to be a gentleman. (Roman) Scherl, Berlin 1925.
• The woman at the source. A dancer's novel. Scherl, Berlin 1926.
• In the background the beautiful Fritz. (Roman) Ullstein, Berlin 1928.
• The sun of St. Moritz. (Roman) Ullstein, Berlin 1928.
• Cyclone in Cuba. (Roman) Scherl, Berlin 1928.
• The master spy. (Roman) Scherl, Berlin 1929.
• Winter sports. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1929.
• The award-winning one. (Roman) Ullstein, Berlin 1930.
• The seven stages. (Roman) Scherl, Berlin 1930.
• I'll marry the third one once. (Roman) Scherl, Berlin 1931.
• Dina and the little duke. (Roman) Scherl, Berlin 1932.
• Bettina on the swing. (Roman) Scherl, Berlin 1934.
• The loveliest woman - except for Johanna. A novel from the time of Bismarck. Scherl, Berlin 1935.
• The Zietenhusars. Novel from the time of Frederick the Great. Scherl, Berlin 1936.
• Queen of Hamburg. (Roman) Scherl, Berlin 1937.
• I love you. A Grieg novel. Scherl, Berlin 1940.
• God sent alternating winds. Memories of a seventy-five year old. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1940.
• Castle music on Favorite. Scherl, Berlin 1943.

literature

• Eckhard Schulz:  Höcker, Paul Oskar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 305 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Oskar Höcker in the catalog of the German National Library

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. 253.
2. ^ Letter H, List of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Second addendum as of September 1, 1948 (Berlin: Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1948). Retrieved March 1, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Heiber : Joseph Goebbels. Colloquium, Berlin 1962, p. 205. (3rd edition, dtv, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-423-01095-7 )
4. ↑ Image 3 of World War history: daily records and comments as appeared in American and foreign newspapers, 1914-1926 ([New York]), October 2, 1914, (1914 October 2-5). Retrieved December 10, 2019 .