Rudolf G. Binding

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Rudolf G. Binding
Memorial plaque of the Rudolf G. Binding monument in Trarbach

Rudolf Georg Binding , mostly Rudolf G. Binding (born August 13, 1867 in Basel , † August 4, 1938 in Starnberg ), was a German writer .

Life

Rudolf Binding was born to wealthy parents. His father Karl Binding came from a traditional family of lawyers and was an internationally recognized teacher of criminal law who married a year before Rudolf Georg was born and was appointed to the University of Basel . Around 1870 the family moved to Freiburg im Breisgau . After the war the family moved on to Strasbourg , which was now German. The father taught for a short time (1872) at the newly founded university. In 1873, Binding and his family moved to Leipzig , where his father was the dean of the law faculty. The son grew up well protected in a stately town house (Ferdinand-Lassalle-Str. 6) and went to school in Leipzig. After the First World War he lived in Buchschlag near Frankfurt am Main until 1935 , then in Starnberg until his death.

Binding studied law and medicine in Tübingen and Heidelberg and Berlin . He was much more interested in writing and horse racing and thus became a racing rider and horse breeder. He also went on study trips to Italy and Greece , which had a lasting impact on him. During the First World War he became a captain and then a staff officer .

After the war, Binding published his first works as a freelance writer , which consisted primarily of short stories , novellas , autobiographical stories and legends . He became known as early as 1919 with the story of Chastity Legend . In 1925 he published his diary-based work Aus dem Kriege , which was primarily known for its realism and sometimes visionary content. Binding was nationally minded and, in the descriptions of his war experiences, glorified the “male soldier spirit” and the willingness to make sacrifices.

In 1924 the poetic story Riding Regulations for a Beloved was published . In the years from 1912 to 1948, medals for artistic achievements were also awarded at seven Olympic Games . Rudolf Georg Binding received one of them (silver) in 1928 in Amsterdam for the riding regulations . In the same year, Erlebtes Leben , an autobiography that was also heavily influenced by his war experiences, was published. Other well-known works are the 1953 novella Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer and the philosophical dialogues The Mirror Talks , both made in 1932. His works were widely popular and respected during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era. Armin Mohler counts Binding among the authors of the so-called Conservative Revolution .

In his answer from a German , he defended National Socialist Germany against its critics. In October 1933 his name was on the list of 88 writers who Adolf Hitler against the vow most loyal followers had done. Although he had allegedly not been asked beforehand, he accepted this and commented on it in 1934 in the exile magazine Die Sammlung . He had been too committed to the new era for me to surprise the public and also the Chancellor with a solemn pledge of allegiance .

Binding was married twice, the second marriage resulted in a son. During his marriages (1907-1919 with Helene Wirsing; 1922-1935 with Hedwig Blaser-Blanc) he had intensive friendships with women, Eva Connstein (d. 1942) and Elisabeth Jungmann (d. 1958). He met her in 1933. She was Gerhart Hauptmann's secretary from 1922 . Drawn to Binding, she switched to his job. The two became a couple and remained in a relationship until his death. Jungmann was Jewish; the prominence of Binding protected them from persecution and vilification until his death. He praised her in the cycle of poems, Nordic Calypso .

For the Nazi regime , binding, who belonged to an elite and upper-class class of authors, was an important propaganda tool . Binding himself was willingly used as a figurehead for National Socialist Germany, although he later harbored reservations about the National Socialist "riot".

On August 4, 1938, Binding died of tuberculosis in Starnberg at the age of 70. Since Binding left no will, his lover and secretary Elisabeth Jungmann had to emigrate to England, almost penniless, where she married Max Beerbohm , an English parodist and cartoonist with whom she had been friends for decades.

Rudolf G. Binding's grave inscription on the Binding family grave, Freiburg Main Cemetery (Breisgau).

Several of Binding's works were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out after the end of the war in the Soviet zone of occupation and in the German Democratic Republic .

Works

  • To a mistress - letters for Joi. (May 15, 1909 - December 27, 1922.) Deutscher Buchklub , 1951, p. 297
  • Coelestina: a fairy tale legend. 1909.
  • This was the measure. The collected war poems and diaries. 5th – 10th Tsd., Rütten & Loening, Potsdam 1940.
  • Riding regulation for a lover. (New edition: Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1995, ISBN 3-487-08369-8 .)
  • The sacrifice. A novella . ( Insel-Bücherei No. 23, 53rd edition, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-458-08023-6 .)
  • The great Rudolf G. Binding book. A selection from the factory . Bertelsmann, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-570-05173-0 .
  • Lived life. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1928.
  • Moselle trip out of lovesickness, novella in a landscape. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1932.
  • Answer from a German to the world. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1933.
  • About the life of plastic. Content and beauty of Georg Kolbe's work . Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1933.
  • We ask Reims to surrender. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1934.
  • Saint George's deputy: legend. Hans Dulk Verlag, Hamburg undated
  • The pearl and other stories. Rütten & Loening, Potsdam 1938.
  • Immortality. 80-90. Th., Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921.
  • Legends of time. Rütten & Loening, Potsdam 1943 (front book trade edition for the Wehrmacht, contains: The whip , chastity legend , Coelestina , Saint George's deputy ).
  • The Violin. Four novellas, Leipzig: Im Insel-Verlag, undated (1918)

Film adaptations

Others

literature

  • Dieter Helmut Stolz :  Binding, Rudolf Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 245 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Peter Scholl-Latour : La vie et l'œuvre de Rudolf G. Binding . Paris 1954, 492 pages (= dissertation, Paris-Sorbonne).
  • Roger L. Cole: The Ethical foundations of Rudolf Binding's' gentleman'-concept . The Hague et al. a .: Mouton 1966. (= Studies in German literature; 7)
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
  • Bernhard Martin: Poetry and Ideology. Völkisch-national thinking in the work of Rudolf Georg Binding . Frankfurt am Main u. a .: Peter Lang 1986. (= European University Papers; Series 1, German Language and Literature; 950). ISBN 3-8204-9532-0
  • Kirstin M. Howard: The concept of honor in the context of the World War One. Accounts of Walter Flex, Rudolf G. Binding and Ernst Jünger . Dunedin, New Zealand: Univ. of Otago. Diss. 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 52.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-b.html
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-b.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-b.html
  5. ↑ Rudolf Binding: Untsterblichkeit. In: archive.org. archive.org, 1940, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Rudolf Binding: Legends of the time. In: archive.org. 1922, Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Binding, Rudolf G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Binding, Rudolf Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1938
Place of death Starnberg