Paul Schmid (writer)

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Paul Schmid (born February 28, 1895 in Sulz am Neckar , † December 27, 1977 in Sulz am Neckar) was a German writer . He published his works in Swabian dialect under the pseudonym Peter Strick .

Life

Paul Schmid was born as the first of four brothers in Sulz am Neckar. The parents, Michael Schmid and Klara geb. Dolmetsch, owned a mill in Sulz am Neckar, which he later took over management. The second son Arthur died in the First World War in the Battle of the Somme as an eighteen year old volunteer . The third son was Richard Schmid , a German lawyer, politician and former president of the higher regional court in Stuttgart. The fourth son Walter studied law in Tübingen after the war and was mayor of the city of Sulz am Neckar.

After his school days in Sulz am Neckar and Tübingen and his German studies in Tübingen and Berlin, Schmid participated in the First World War. Immediately after returning home from the war, which he was badly wounded and survived after spending two years in a hospital in Berlin, he worked as a high school teacher in Aalen. Immediately after the First World War, he demonstrated himself as a poet who was fluent in language and form with his cycle of poems “Brothers. A poem against death ”, which is dedicated to the memory of his fallen younger brother Arthur. He worked for various literary magazines such as Jugend , Simplicissimus and in 'Vivos voco' by Hermann Hesse . He wrote numerous poems, novellas, essays, and literary and cultural reviews. In 1931 he took over his father's art mill in Sulz am Neckar. Schmid maintained friendships with Swabian poets, actors and artists such as August Lämmle , Sebastian Blau , Willy Reichert , Paul Kälberer and Reinhold Nägele . In 1936, under the pseudonym Peter Strick, he published the well-known volume of poetry "Starker Tubak" - Lyrische Schwabenstreich .

In the edition of the anthology Bread and Wine , subtitled as the annual edition of the Swabian Poets' Circle in 1941 and published at the end of 1940 , Paul Schmid published the poem Never, my people ... , in which he shows himself as the leader's panegyric . According to this lyrical work, the ruler had commanded the German people, the heart people of Europe , to rule , and placed the task of turning your [the people's] fate into the hands of a horror and thus proclaimed salvation to the least of the warriors. It can hardly be seriously doubted that this slightest (field) gray warrior is praising the First World War's corporal, Adolf Hitler :

“He understood and began.
Waves of his solitary act grew, excited by the storm of his voice. -
The miracle of change is already occurring within.
His will has already turned the world on its hinges.
[...] But
above you [ie the people] in the intoxication of his mission, the gray,
loyal soldier who obeys and carries out the order.
Thousands pile up the blocks for growing buildings,
because this one wants it. And the big thing happens. "

This was followed by numerous occasional poems in Swabian dialect and time-critical poetry in daily newspapers or private prints between 1940 and 1970.

Schmid died on December 27, 1977, the anniversary of the death of his brother Arthur Schmid, who died in the First World War. Paul Schmid was married to Margot Schmid (née Breckle) and has two sons.

Honors

Quotes about Paul Schmid

  • In nature he finds himself and the way out of the materialistic bustle of everyday life, a time which - as it seems to him - the spiritual center has been lost. The fact that that didn't make him a misanthropist, not a hermit, not an eccentric, is thanks to Paul Schmid's happy nature, unvarnished truths in artistic form. Published in the Schwarzwälder Bote in 1965.
  • While Hitler's cultural popes saw an occasion in the “Strong Tubak” in 1936 to name Strick alias Schmid a successor to Tucholsky and Klabund, he himself found more and more the way to realism, to satirists, and became more and more a satirical critic himself World that for him no longer has any salvation. Written by Werner P. Heyd in the Schwarzwälder Bote 1970.
  • (In his) private prints the highly literary Paul Schmid of the twenties and the popular Peter Strick of the thirties had found each other in a kind of synthesis, which was expressed in the common initials PS [...] at the same time an abbreviation for 'postscript', because they were: Postscripts on the history of the post-war period and twenty years of the Federal Republic. Written by Ludwig Dietz, Horb am Neckar in 1970.
  • I was very much looking forward to the excellent Swabian verse and I very much wish to receive more of this kind. The “old master's judgment” has nothing to add; and there is no makeup or flattering when I say that I was happy with these poems. August Lämmle in a letter from 1936.
  • I really liked the poems to a large extent [...] and I think they would be well received in the Ländle. Dr. Owlglass alias Hans Ernst Blaich in a letter on Simplicissimus 1936.
  • A new edition of the Swabian poems by Peter Stricks (seems to me) most welcome, as they are real dialect poems, because the weight of the compound word is balanced between its two parts. A brilliant firework of spirit, wit and humor, of satirical and poetic power. Josef Eberle alias Sebastian Blau on the strong Tubak 1978.

gallery

  • Inscription by Peter Strick (Paul Schmid) in front of the Albeckgymnasium Sulz am Neckar

  • Paul Schmid, portrait

  • Former home and home of Paul Schmid in Sulz am Neckar

  • Strong Tubak , original edition 1936 and reprint 1978

  • Brothers: a seal against the death of Paul Schmid in 1916

Fonts

  • Paul Schmid: Brothers: a seal against death , Stuttgart, Strecker and Schröder, 1919
  • Strick Peter: Starker Tubak - Lyric Swabian Strokes , Strecker and Schröder, 1936
  • Strick Peter: Starker Tubak - Lyrische Schwabenstreich , Schweier, Kirchheim unter Teck, 1978

literature

  • Werner P. Heyd : Schwäbische Köpf , Bleicher Verlag 1980 (here a detailed portrait of Paul Schmid)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bread and Wine. Annual gift of the Swabian Poets' Circle 1941. Ed. By Emil Wezel. Hohenstaufen-Verlag Stuttgart [1940], p. 66 f.
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strick, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulz am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1977
Place of death Sulz am Neckar