Peter chairs

Peter Stühlen (born August 12, 1900 in Hagenau , Alsace , † April 21, 1982 in Dielheim ) was a German writer .

Life

Stühlen came from the Black Forest family Keßler, one of the formative families of the large company , which was later based in Hagenau . As a 17-year-old, Stühlen went into the First World War as a war volunteer ; when he returned Hagenau was French. From 1927, Stühlen worked in various industrial sectors in Berlin , later settled in Oberweier near Karlsruhe and devoted himself to writing.

The uprooting of his year by the war, the homelessness and the difficult orientation in the Weimar Republic is reflected above all in his novel Gegen Morgen , but also in the third volume, Das Erbe, of his trilogy The Elsißträger . After the new editions of his trilogy in the post-war period, Stühlen achieved a thoroughly successful new start with his novels Seven Years and The Successful .

Peter Stühlen was largely ignored by literary studies in post-war Germany. Only through the research of Prof. Scholdt and others has it been pointed out in the last few years that also in the Third Reich not only adapted folkish blood-and-soil literature appeared. As Manfred Bosch emphasizes, " Stühlen has not made any concessions to the Nazis' fascist concept of home", which is also well documented by its new editions from 1947. The modernity of Stuhlens is impressively demonstrated by the internationality of an essay on literary theory from 1941, which dealt with contemporary "enemy authors" such as Proust, Romains, Huxley, Lawrence, Lewis and Don Passos without ideological or chauvinistic blinkers (in: "Das Erbe" 1992 edition, appendix).

Works

• "Parents and Children" 1935 Berlin / 1992 Kirchheim-Teck
• "From the Black Woods" 1936 Berlin / 1992 Kirchheim-Teck
• "Towards Tomorrow" 1937 Berlin
• "The Legacy" 1941 Berlin / 1992 Kirchheim-Teck
• "Seven Years" 1960 Hamburg
• "The Successful" 1961 Hamburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SWF 2, October 24, 1983