Roland Betsch

Roland Betsch (born  November 3, 1888 in Pirmasens , †  April 8, 1945 in Ettlingen ) was a German engineer , writer , storyteller and playwright . Betsch was a member of the Bamberg poet circle and the Corps Germania Munich . There his code name was Orlando .

Life

Betsch was born in Pirmasens in 1888 as the son of a railway administrator. He studied at the Technical University in Munich and graduated as an engineer in 1913. During his student days in Munich, he joined the Corps Germania , of which he remained a member throughout his life. He then worked as an assistant at the Breslau University of Applied Sciences. He experienced the First World War in an air force, where he was assigned to the Fokker works as a qualified engineer in the air force . After the war he worked as a freelance writer.

Betsch was head of the Westmark Association of the NSDAP- related organization Kampfbund for German Culture .

At times Betsch suffered from depression that made him shy and during which he was tormented by fears of the future . During such a phase, at the end of the war in April 1945, he and his wife committed suicide .

In the Soviet occupation zone , his works Abwehr und Heimkehr (1940) and Regieexpreß D 21 (1944) were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

His estate is in the Pirmasens city ​​library .

Honors

• Winner of the Westmark Prize
• 1963 Name of a green area in Ettlingen after Roland Betsch
• 1973 A street in Ettlingen is named after Roland Betsch
• 1974 Name of a street in Pirmasens after Roland Betsch

Works

• Benedikt Patzenberger , Breslau [a. a.] 1917
• Flinz and Flügge , Breslau 1917
• The wild freiger , Berlin 1919
• A messiah , Berlin 1920
• Comedy Heckenmiller , Breslau [a. a.] 1921
• Wolfgang Wendler's fate , Breslau [u. a.] 1922
• The blind death , Leipzig 1925
• The Chinese , Munich 1925
• Land somewhere , Munich 1925
• Peter Buddensieck, the master of the skies , Breslau 1925
• Eight Hut Days , Breslau 1928 (together with Franz Eberlin)
• Rheinpfalz , Leipzig 1928 (together with Lorenz Wingerter )
• People in the Föhn , Breslau 1929
• Salvermoser's strange wandering of souls , Berlin 1930
• The experiment of Dr. Tintelott , Berlin 1931
• God in the avalanche , Munich 1931
• Hans Fidibus in luck , Berlin 1934
• The Enchanted , Berlin 1934
• Fools in the Snow , Berlin 1935
• The seven bliss , Berlin 1936
• Ballad am Strom , Berlin 1939
• Defense and homecoming , Neustadt an d. Weinstrasse 1940
• Through the gate of joy , Neustadt a. d. Weinstrasse 1940
• Ski wax , Leipzig 1940
• Weeds bloom too , Berlin 1941
• Between Siegfried Line and Maginot Line , Kaiserslautern 1941
• Hearts in the Snow , Stuttgart 1942
• Comrade through thick and thin , Budweis [u. a.] 1943
• Little wilderness of the heart , Stuttgart 1943
• Haunted play hall , Berlin 1943
• The master blowers , Gütersloh 1944
• Regie-Express D 21 and two other novellas , Leipzig 1944
• Four women and one summer , Ettlingen in Baden 1949
• Fantastic stories , Speyer 1968

Editing

• Kurt Faber , the world wanderer , Speyer 1933 (published together with Karl Graf)

Film adaptations

• Fools in the snow
• The enchanted
• The wild freiger
• Circus Renz (screenplay, 1943)

literature

• Exhibition catalog for the “Bamberg Poets' Circle 1936–1943”, pp. 111–116 (Ulrike Weber)
• Bischoff, Oskar: Dedicated to the word. Portraits of Palatine writers. A selection . Literary Association, Landau 1972.
• Bode, Ingrid: The autobiographies of German literature, art and music 1900–1965 . Metzler, Stuttgart 1966.
• Herpich, Hans: Monumenta Germaniae II. Commemorative sheets of the Corps Germania in Munich , Ingolstadt 1968.
• Wilhelm Zentner: In memoriam Roland Betsch . 1969
• Heinrich Zerkaulen: Roland Betsch - on his 50th birthday. 1938.

Web links

• Literature by and about Roland Betsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Roland Betsch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Works by Roland Betsch in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-b.html