Robert Hohlbaum

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Robert Hohlbaum (born August 28, 1886 in Jägerndorf , Austrian Silesia , † February 4, 1955 in Graz ) was a German librarian and writer . He was an active supporter of the cultural policy of the National Socialist Third Reich .

biography

The Sudeten German Robert Hohlbaum, a brother of the surgeon Josef Hohlbaum and son of the industrialist Alois Hohlbaum (1854–1906) and his wife Clothilde, née Micklitz.

Hollow Tree studied at the University of Graz and at the University of Vienna German with graduation to the Dr. phil. 1910, was a member of the fraternity Germania Munich , the fraternity Stauffia Munich and the fraternity Carniola Graz . In May 1950 he became an honorary member of the Carolina academic fraternity in Prague in Munich . His professional activity as a librarian at the university library in Vienna gave him, in addition to his writings, sufficient material security; he also worked as an author for the weekly Muskete . During this time he became friends with Mirko Jelusich and Rudolf Hans Bartsch .

He took part in the First World War as an Austro-Hungarian officer until 1918 . Badly affected by the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1918, Robert Hohlbaum sought to join the Greater German People's Party and became a leading figure in right-wing liberal literature in the First Republic of Austria . He was also a member of the Catholic German Community of Austria , which also included Arthur Seyß-Inquart , Engelbert Dollfuss , Karl Wache , Emmerich Czermak and Hermann Neubacher .

Accommodation in Germany

After Austria's annexation to the German Reich in 1938 , Robert Hohlbaum published the Confession Book of Austrian Poets as a contribution , published by the Association of German Writers in Austria , which welcomed the annexation for economic reasons.

After 1933, his connections to public officials in Germany helped Hohlbaum . Two years before the Second World War he became a German citizen in 1937 and took over the management of the city ​​library in Duisburg . From 1942 to 1944 he was director of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar . During this time he was also followed by the librarian Richard Dobel from Hamburg to Thuringia . Besides him, his friends included the German scholar and librarian Franz Koch, who came from Austria . During the Second World War he tried to get an appointment as head of the City Archives in Vienna. He is said to have received the notarized appointment in Weimar, but due to the war he could no longer take up the appointment to Vienna. In 1944 there were ideological differences with the Gauleitung in Thuringia because of a publication by Hohlbaum , which ultimately led to his leave of absence from the library. Hohlbaum then went on a book tour to his hometown Jägerndorf. There he met the soldier, librarian and poet Hanns Cibulka , who met him several times in Weimar after the collapse. Otherwise he worked as a writer and did preparatory work for the books, which after 1945 could only be published in the western zones and in Austria. In 1944 he published in the National Socialist Bozner Tagblatt .

Last years of life

After the end of the war, Hohlbaum's writings Heldische Prosa ( Reclam , Leipzig 1934), Der Held von Kolberg (Loewe, Stuttgart 1935), The Ancestors of Bolshevism (Deutscher Hort-Verlag, Herrsching 1937), The Last Battle ( Langen / Müller , Munich 1943) and Front der Herzen (Bischoff, Berlin 1944) placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone . In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by the novel Zukunft (Staackmann, Leipzig 1922).

Robert Hohlbaum, who worked briefly as an auxiliary gardener and goatherd in Weimar after May 1945, remained true to his profession as a writer despite several moves and wrote a book about Anton Bruckner under the title Te Deum . After difficulties he was able to return to Austria in 1951 , where he settled in Henndorf near Salzburg. Hohlbaum died a few years after his return in 1955 in Graz.

Memberships

  • Fraternity Germania Munich
  • Fraternity of Stauffia Munich
  • Carniola Graz fraternity
  • Styria Graz fraternity
  • Fraternity of Silesia Vienna

Honors and prizes

Works (selection)

  • The eternal bilge fight , 1913
  • Austrian. A novel from 1866 , 1914
  • German poems. One cycle , 1916
  • Simplicius Academicus , 1918
  • Immortal. Novellas , 1919
  • The amours of Magister Döderlein , 1920
  • Frontier , 1921
  • The hour of the stars . In: Velhagen & Klasings monthly books March 1921 . First edition. March 1921, no. 7 . Velhagen & Klasing, Berlin, Bielefeld, Leipzig, Berlin March 1921, p. 7 (ongoing pp. 84–90) .
  • Than anything in the world! , 1921
  • Franz Karl Ginzkey. His life and work , 1921
  • Guillotine and hoop skirt. New novellas , 1921
  • Future. Roman , 1922
  • Heavenly Orchestra , 1923
  • Germany. A series of sonnets , 1923
  • The German Passion , 1924
  • The wild Christian. Roman , 1925
  • The Herrgotts Symphony , 1925
  • The Pentecost of Weimar , 1926
  • The ravens of Kyffhäuser. The novel of the fraternity and its age , 1927
  • Paradise and the snake. A novel from South Tyrol , 1928
  • Winter wedding night. Novellas , 1929
  • The ringing poison , 1930
  • The Minister of War , 1930
  • German suffering in Austria , 1930
  • The hour of the stars. A Bruckner novella , 1930
  • King Volk , 1931
  • The man out of chaos. A Napoleon novel , 1933
  • Stone. A Leader's Novel , 1934
  • Escape to war , 1935
  • The hero of Kolberg , 1935
  • Battle for Germany. Roman , 1936
  • Happy March. Two novellas , 1936
  • Grillparzer , 1938
  • The silent battle. Roman , 1939
  • The Elector , 1940
  • The Royal Parade , 1942
  • Ballads from the Spirit , 1943
  • The last stand , 1943
  • Symphony in three movements. Novellas , 1943
  • Te Deum , 1950
  • Jesus legend , 1951
  • The matchmaker , 1953
  • The wand. Novel of Viennese musical life , 1954

literature

  • Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries . Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Vol. 1 R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, p. 667, ISBN 3-486-49491-0
  • Gero von Wilpert : Lexicon of World Literature 1, 1975
  • Wilhelm Kosch : German Literature Lexicon 2, 1953
  • New Austrian Biography (Great Austrians) (NDB) 9, with literature
  • Heimatjahrbuch Ostsudetenland 3 (1956) 31 f., Pp. 201 to 213
  • Günter Burgmann: Robert Hohlbaum's Lebens- u. Creative time in Weimar. In: The Displaced Person (Erfurt). H. 05 (May). 2008. p. 21.
  • Günter Burgmann: Robert Hohlbaum and "Goethe" ... In: The Displaced Person (Erfurt). Issue 10 (October). 2007. pp. 23-24.
  • Günter Burgmann: Robert Hohlbaum and Thuringia . In: The Displaced Person (Erfurt). Issue 02 (February). 2005. p. 21.
  • Hellmuth Himmel:  Hohlbaum, Robert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 504 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Josef Schneider: Encounters with Robert Hohlbaum . - In: Sudetendeutscher Kulturalmanach (Munich). 6 (1967). Pp. 41-44.
  • Johann Sonnleitner: The business of Mr. Robert Hohlbaum. The writing career of an Austrian in the interwar period and in the Third Reich. Vienna-Cologne: Böhlau. 1989. (= literature in history, history in literature; 18) ISBN 3-205-05206-4
  • Sudetendeutsche Zeitung February 4th 1956
  • Hansjörg Brockmann, Rudolf Simm, Eugen Wokoek: The Academic Burschenschaft Carolina zu Prague in Munich commemorates their deceased, fallen and murdered brothers . Copyright 2014; under: Short biographies of significant Caroliners, p. 146, Hohlbaum, Robert; P. 49 Wording and photo of the handwritten poem "Jugend", which Robert Hohlbaum, honorary boy of the Carolina in Prague in Munich, Salzburg in 1950 dedicated to Carolina.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. S. 208.
  2. ^ Association of German writers Austria (ed.): Confession book of Austrian poets . Krystall Verlag, Vienna 1938
  3. ↑ Bozner Tagblatt , article Von der Kraft des Geistes , issue of September 28, 1944, p. 1.
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-h.html
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-h.html
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-h.html
  7. ^ "Lexicon of important fraternities and other corporates", September 24, 2017
  8. ^ "Lexicon of important fraternities and other corporates", September 24, 2017
  9. ^ Peter Enslein:  Feuilleton. "Austrian". . In:  Badener Zeitung , May 16, 1914, p. 1 ff. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt.
personal data
SURNAME Hohlbaum, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian librarian, novelist and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Jägerndorf , North Moravia
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1955
Place of death Graz