Siegfried Adolf Kummer

Siegfried Adolf Kummer (born September 24, 1899 in Radeberg , † 1977 in Kamenz ; actually Adolf Marx Karl Kummer ) was a German painter and esotericist . Together with Friedrich Bernhard Marby he is one of the founders of " rune gymnastics ".

Life

Siegfried Adolf Kummer first trained as an academic painter at a private art school and then at the Dresden School of Applied Arts and Art . During the First World War he served on the French front. After the war he continued his education at the Berlin Art Academy . His works, from which he tried to live more badly than rightly, could be assigned to late expressionism . He belonged to the local art and film scene in Dresden . In the 1920s and 1930s he began to work out his rune theory. He published some work on rune magic and rune gymnastics. In the 1920s he co-founded the Dresden run school "Runa". This had the Ariosophy by Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels prescribed. He played a key role in the school's two magazines, Runa and Walhall .

Kummer joined the NSDAP and the Reich Chamber of Culture after the seizure of power . With the newly founded group "Runa - Bund der Runenkunde" he tried to join the working group of the German Faith Movement . In July 1934 his organization was banned by the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. His two magazines also died in the late 1930s. In the fall of 1939, his book Holy Runic Power was banned by the National Socialists . But he was allowed to stay in the Reich Chamber of Culture. In addition, Sorrow was deeply in debt at the time. A planned book on heraldry no longer appeared.

After the Second World War , Kummer broke away from the esoteric scene and concentrated on his work as a painter. He was awarded the GDR artist prize.

reception

In the 1920s and 1930s, Kummer managed to draw attention to himself through his work on runic magic and gymnastics. His works, along with those of Marby and Guido von List, are considered the basis for Karl Spiesberger's theory of rune gymnastics in the 1950s. Kummer's works were rediscovered in the 1980s and 1990s. New editions were published in 2010 and 2011 by the Austrian esoteric publisher Edition Secret Knowledge. A collection of sources and literature on him is in the archive of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History .

Works

• Holy runic power. Rebirth of Armanentism through runic exercises and dances. Uranus-Verlag, Hamburg 1932
• Runic magic . K. Hartmann, Dresden 1933 ( digitized version of the Wuppertal reprint 2004 ).
• Runes - whispers. A collection of reports sent in after the rune customers of SA Kummer . Self-published by SA Kummer 1934.
• Valhalla. Handwriting and picture writing for runology, mysticism and prehistory. Letters to rune friends for personal use . Self-published by SA Kummer 1934 (four issues).

painting

• Cathedral ruin, 1967, 50 × 36 cm, spatula work
• Rune before peacock, spatula work

signature

He always signed his paintings with A number, with A and K interlocking.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe: Runic gymnastics. From völkisch physical culture to alternative self-awareness practice . In: Völkisch and national. On the topicality of old thought patterns in the 21st century . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-20040-5 , pp. 329-340 .
2. ^ Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe: Völkisch-religious rune gymnast in National Socialism . In: Uwe Puschner, Clemens Vollnhals (ed.): The ethnic-religious movement in National Socialism: A history of relationships and conflicts . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-36996-8 , pp. 468-471 .
3. ↑ Ann-Laurence Maréchal: Construction and differentiation processes new-Germanic-pagan religiosity . In: Dorothea Lüddeckens, Rafael Walthert (Hrsg.): Fluide Religion - New religious movements in transition. Theoretical and empirical systematizations . transcript Verlag, 2010, ISBN 3-8376-1250-3 , p. 192 f . (accessed via De Gruyter Online)
4. ↑ http://nish.de/index.php/archiv.html