Peter Supf

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Peter Supf (born October 3, 1886 in Nuremberg as Peter Wilhelm Ernst Supf , † February 26, 1961 in Munich ) was a German writer who became known as a poet on aviation .

Life

Supf grew up in Nuremberg and studied law at the universities of Geneva , Oxford , Munich and Berlin . In 1909 he published his first volume of poems under the name "Willi Supf". After his doctorate at the University of Greifswald at the end of October 1912 with the thesis Alsace-Lorraine and the constitutional nature of the German Reich , he passed the legal traineeship. He soon resigned from civil service and from then on lived as a freelance writer.

After the First World War , in which he participated as an aviator observer until he was seriously wounded on April 19, 1917, Supf campaigned for German-French understanding . In 1919 he published a volume in the renowned Eugen Diederichs publishing house with poems shaped by his flight experiences. Several volumes of poetry, a novella and non-fiction books on aviation followed. Most of his works were dedicated to aviation, for which Lufthansa was the first and so far only person to grant him a lifelong free flight certificate in 1928. Supf maintained correspondence with some of the most famous writers of his time, including Thomas Mann (who reviewed Supf's childhood memories in Nuremberg and the volume of poems O Mensch in Mann und Frau ), Klaus Mann , Bruno Frank , Joachim Ringelnatz and Stefan Zweig .

During the time of National Socialism , Supf published propagandistic and war-glorifying books in line with the regime, including a work on the aerial warfare in Poland. His aviation history works from this time are strongly nationalistic. After 1945 he was unable to build on earlier literary successes and published adventure novels and non-fiction books for young people. In 1956 he was honorary chairman of the Luftfahrt-Presseclub e. V. (LPC) Frankfurt am Main. He died in Munich in 1961 after a long illness.

In the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic , many of his Nazi publications were placed on the list of literature to be segregated.

Works

  • Poems from an old town (as Willi Supf), Heidelberg 1909
  • Alsace-Lorraine and the constitutional nature of the German Reich (as Willi Supf), dissertation, Greifswald 1912
  • Songs from the air. Poems of an Aviator , Jena 1919 (2nd edition Stuttgart 1960)
  • Music from loneliness , poems, euphorion, Berlin 1922
  • Childhood in Nuremberg. Verse von einer Knaben , Berlin 1926, new edition Nuremberg 1949
  • The song of flight. First collection of German flight poetry , Berlin 1928
  • O man in man and woman , poems, Berlin 1928
  • The world without a horizon. From the writings of an aviator , Berlin 1928
  • Mrs. Joho in Paris , with drawings by Vera Joho , Berlin 1930
  • Novelle vom Tod der Flieger , Berlin 1931 (1935 in Reclam as Der Tod der Flieger , 1942 as Zwischen Wolken und Sternen )
  • Amance. The story of a young girl , Jena 1931
  • Die Welt der Flieger (with Heinz Orlovius), Berlin 1932 (English edition 1933 as Airman's World )
  • The new world experience. A book about flying , Berlin 1932 (extended revision 1943 as Das Weltterlebnis des Flieger )
  • The book of German flight history , 2 volumes, Berlin 1935 (with a preface by Hermann Göring ), “2. revised, improved and expanded edition “Stuttgart 1956–1958
  • with Paul Kettel , Ernst Udet and Heinz Orlovius: Kameradschaft der Luft. Festschrift on the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of Dr.-Ing.EH, Dr. Phil.HC Ernst Heinkel , Wiking Verlag, Berlin 1938
  • German aviation. A picture work , Berlin 1938, 2nd edition 1940
  • Luftwaffe strikes! The air war in Poland . With the support of the Air Force Commander in Chief. Based on reports from the front and personal experiences of Peter Supf. Military representation by Lothar Schüttel, Berlin 1939
  • Winner in a losing position (with Kurt Krispien), in the series “ War Library of German Youth ”, Berlin 1939
  • Aviators, fighters, comrades. War experiences of our Air Force , Stuttgart 1940 (Finnish edition 1941)
  • Luftwaffe from victory to victory. From Norway to Crete . With the support of the Commander in Chief of the Air Force based on reports from the front and personal experiences of Peter Supf. With a brief military overview by W. Haehnelt, Berlin 1941
  • The air war in Poland. A picture , Berlin 1941
  • Words are miracles. Poems, sayings, love verses , Berlin 1942
  • The flying Sancho. In search of the white Indians. An adventurous story , Nuremberg 1949, Reutlingen 1951, Stuttgart 1958
  • Twelve commandments for glider pilots , by Wolf Hirth , laid out by Peter Supf, Reutlingen 1951
  • Flight to Goldland , Reutlingen 1953
  • The conquest of the air kingdom , Stuttgart 1953
  • The sky car. The fate of Melchior Bauer , Stuttgart 1953
  • Hanns Klemm . The creator of the light aircraft , Stuttgart 1955
  • Reunion with a stork , Munich 1955
  • Trippstrill. Cheerful verses , Munich 1956
  • Airmen conquer the mountains of the world , Munich 1956
  • Airmen conquer the pole , Munich 1957
  • Airmen conquer seas and continents , Munich 1959
  • Frankfurt am Main, the engine of aviation. A memory of the International Aviation Exhibition 1909 (with Max Geysenheimer), Frankfurt 1959
  • Stupid more stupid the most stupid. Kinderverse , Königshofen 1959

Editing:

  • The most beautiful fairy tales of flying , Berlin 1930, 2nd edition 1941, Latvian edition 1944, new edition Stuttgart 1953
  • Sword with wings. Luftwaffe war poems , 1943
  • Fliegergeschichten , novel booklets, Munich 1953–1961
  • Lewellen / Shapiro: The big colorful book about flying , Ravensburg 1959 ("with expert advice from Peter Supf")

Translations:

Forewords to:

  • Julius Buckler : Malaula! The battle cry of my squadron , Berlin 1939
  • Germany in the air , Frankfurt 1959

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to birth certificate no. 3192/1886, civil status register, birth register 1876–1905, inventory: C 27 / IV, signature: C 27 / IV no. 254, Nuremberg City Archives
  2. ↑ The equation Willi Supf = Peter Supf takes place according to information in library catalogs and in the DBE.
  3. ↑ according to 50 years REUSS yearbook of aviation and space travel ( PDF ( memento of the original dated November 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove it Note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-s.html
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-f.html
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-s.html
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-s.html

literature

  • Supf, Peter . In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . Saur, Munich 1999, Vol. 9, p. 634
  • Obituary in: Yearbook of the German Aerospace Society 1961
  • Dirk Heißerer: The "aviator writer" Peter Supf. An inheritance find (with letters from Thomas Mann) . In: From the second-hand bookshop. Issue 1/2007
  • Alfred Heueck: Lyric behind 1800 HP. Peter Supf, the German pilot poet. A "tramp of the air" tells . In: The Air Travel. Aviation magazine, air tourism and aviation. Born 1936, issue 7
  • Sabine Höhler: Aviation research and aviation myth. Scientific balloon flight in Germany, 1880–1910 . Campus, Frankfurt 2001 (also dissertation, TU Braunschweig 1999), Chapter 5: Science and technology as riddles , p. 327ff. (see excerpt from Google Booksearch )
  • Peter Supf , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 22/1961 of May 22, 1961, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

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personal data
SURNAME Supf, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Supf, Willi (stage name); Supf, Peter Wilhelm Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and aviator
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1961
Place of death Munich