Rudolf Thiel (writer)

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Ferdinand "Rudolf" Thiel (born July 23, 1899 in Kaiserslautern , † September 28, 1981 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German writer.

Life

Youth and wartime

Rudolf Thiel, the youngest son of the metallurgical engineer Otto Thiel , spent his youth in Landstuhl and completed his schooling at the humanistic grammar school in Kaiserslautern, today's Albert Schweitzer grammar school , at the age of 18 on September 1, 1917 with a secondary school diploma , around the same time Tag as a pioneer in the First World War .

Education

At the end of the war he returned to Landstuhl and from January 1919 gave substitute classes in mathematics at his former school, the Latin School in Landstuhl, today's Sickingen grammar school . For the summer semester of the same year he enrolled for the study of the new philology at the University of Bonn a.

In the following winter semester he moved to the University of Munich , where he studied biology . After this two-semester intermezzo in Munich, he returned to Bonn for the winter semester of 1921 and on May 12, 1923 passed the examination for teaching at higher schools ( 1st state examination ) in the subjects of physics and biology, as well as mathematics with distinction.

Employment

Teaching

For a short time (June 25 to October 30, 1923) Rudolf Thiel found his first job as a teacher at the private "Kalkuhlschen Oberrealschule ", today's Ernst-Kalkuhl-Gymnasium , in Bonn-Oberkassel .

In November of the same year he became a teacher at the "Higher female educational institution," the former "Municipal Higher School for Girls ," in Kaiserslautern, today Burggymnasium. A transfer request was granted and at the beginning of October 1926 he was able to take up his position at the girls ' high school , Sophie-Charlotte-Oberschule in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district in Berlin . From April 1, 1927, he was finally employed there, but increasingly devoted himself to writing.

writer

His first published work was a school book and appeared in 1928: "Biology book for working lessons in the Untersekunda ( Obersekunda d. Gymnasien)". From 1930 his novel "Men against Death and the Devil" was published. Furthermore, Rudolf Thiel came out with confessional writings, in particular with the two-volume edition on the life of Martin Luther .

In 1936, the then Reich Church Minister , Hanns Kerrl , who was particularly impressed by Thiel's writings, applied for his exemption from teaching. From September 1, 1941 he was retired and devoted himself entirely to writing.

Works

Original editions

  • Biology book for working lessons in the Untersekunda (Obersekunda d. Gymnasien) . Monograph, 1928.
  • Men against death and the devil . 1930.
  • The generation without men . 1932.
  • Luther: From 1483 to 1522 . 1933.
  • Luther: From 1522 to 1546 . 1935.
  • Martin Luther's great war over the Lord's Supper . 1935.
  • Jesus Christ and Science. With an afterword by Minister of Law Hanns Kerrl ; Berlin, Paul Neff Verlag, 1938.
  • Three Gospels of Mark . 1938.
  • Prussian soldiers . 1940.
  • The inventors' fame and suffering . 1942.
  • The third world power: the federal state of Europe in 4 weeks . 1953.
  • And there was light: the novel of space exploration . Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg, 1956.
  • The heart weighed: great soldiers from Derfflinger to Schlieffen . 1957.
  • The small planetarium . 1957.
  • The novel of the earth . 1959.
  • Heaven full of violins: the life of the great symphonies . 1963
  • Sculptor Walter Fischer, Bühl - highly stylized all-round sculpture . circa 1980.

literature

  • Rudolf Thiel , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/1983 of September 19, 1983, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely accessible).
  • Sabine Maas: The writer Rudolf Thiel 1899–1981; Stories make history. Catalog for the traveling exhibition . City of Sankt Augustin, Sankt Augustin 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press article about the opening of the traveling exhibition "The Writer Rudolf Thiel" on February 14, 2000 in Sankt Augustin ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), published on February 18, 2000 in Rundblick Sankt Augustin.
  2. ^ Official staff directory of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn , summer semester 1919, p. 170 .
  3. ↑ Personnel card and sheets for teachers in high schools in Prussia
  4. ↑ Literary Policy in the Third Reich, Jan-Pieter Barbian, p. 167
  5. ↑ Brief communication of the book And there was light , published in 1956 : The novel of space research in DER SPIEGEL (issue 46/1956)
personal data
SURNAME Thiel, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiel, Ferdinand Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern , Germany
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1981
Place of death Aschaffenburg , Germany