Tüdel Weller

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Tüdel Weller (born March 12, 1902 in Saarn near Mülheim an der Ruhr as Anton Friedrich Weller ; † February 20, 1970 in Holzminden ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Tüdel Weller was the son of a master butcher . The family of eleven moved frequently during Tüdel Weller's childhood and youth; from 1908 she lived in Hattingen and from 1914 in Mülheim an der Ruhr . Weller temporarily attended a German school in Vaals, the Netherlands . From March 1919 he was a member of one of the Freikorps that emerged after the end of the First World War , involved in fighting against communist rebels in the Ruhr area and, in 1920, in street fights as a result of the Kapp Putschwas involved. After his discharge from the Freikorps, Weller carried out various activities. In 1923 he carried out sabotage actions against the French occupation of the Ruhr area . He was arrested and expelled from the Ruhr area. From 1925 Weller completed a traineeship at the Velberter Zeitung , where he then worked as editor-in-chief until 1927 . From 1928 to 1932 Weller stayed in the Saar area and was part of the editorial team of the Merziger Volkszeitung . After a short stay in the Netherlands in 1932, he returned to Germany in 1933 . From May 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP .

From 1933 to 1936 Tüdel Weller worked as a journalist for various newspapers of the new regime in Essen , Gleiwitz and Mannheim . From December 1938 he stayed on behalf of the Todt Organization at the then emerging Westwall , about the construction of which he was to publish a book. From February to May 1940 he worked as a war correspondent and motorcyclist on the Western Front. After he was wounded in June 1940, Weller, who was fluent in Dutch , was assigned to the Propaganda Department of the " Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories" in The Hague in November . As in most previous jobs, Weller soon came into conflict with his superiors; He was released in June 1941 and was subsequently employed by the National Socialist Welfare Association . From March 1943 he was released from work because he was still considered to be “indispensable for the continuation of cultural life” even after the “ total war ” was declared. After his apartment in Cologne was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942, Weller and his family stayed in different places.

As of November 1945, the family lived in the Schleswig-Holstein location Hostrup where Weller as accountants worked. In the course of the denazification proceedings against him, he claimed, among other things, that he was “never a member of a National Socialist organization; his work in the Nazi press was only due to financial need and in no way should be seen as an expression of his political convictions. ”Weller's argument was fruitful, because the lengthy denazification process against him ended in 1950 with his classification as“ exonerated ”. From 1953 Weller changed his place of residence several times; he also made journalistic contributions and a. for the Rheinische Post and the Schleswiger Nachrichten . Since 1969 he lived in Kemnade near Bodenwerder .

Tüdel Weller's literary work, which consists of novels , short stories and radio plays , appeared exclusively during the time of National Socialism and in Eher-Verlag , the central publishing house of the NSDAP . Weller was a staunch National Socialist ; his works are dedicated to a. the glorification of the Freikorps fighters ( Peter Mönkemann ) and a hateful description of the years of the Weimar Republic ( bullies! ) marked by blatant anti - Semitism . About the genesis of the novel Rabauken! Peter Mönkemann said, looking back, Weller said:

“For a long time I was reluctant to write this work, which I had been dreaming of for years, because I knew that to do so - if it were to be stabbed and nailed - I would have to put myself completely into the Jewish psyche. But then I used my hatred to help, and then it worked. "

The stories that emerged during the Second World War , on the other hand, mostly have the character of light entertainment literature for simple frontline soldiers .

After the end of the war, all of his books were put on the list of literature to be sorted out except for, to Africa ... in the Soviet occupation zone .

Works

  • Peter Mönkemann. A high song of the free corps fighters on the Ruhr . Rather, Munich and Berlin 1936.
  • Bullies! Peter Mönkemann makes his way . Rather, Berlin and Munich 1939.
  • Bigwigs and rebels. Story of an Unknown Volunteer to the Nation . Rather, Munich 1939.
  • Off to Africa ... A boy’s story from days gone by . Rather, Munich 1940.
  • A pen goes to hell. Stories from World War I to the present day . Rather, Munich 1940.
  • Four soldiers in enemy territory . Rather, Munich 1941.
  • The village king . Munich, more like 1942.
  • Today there is roast duck. Serious and cheerful stories from difficult times . Rather, Munich 1944.

literature

  • Janin Egbers: Tüdel Weller. The propaganda poet , in: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology. Ten author portraits . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2009 ISBN 3895287199 pp. 295-316

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janin Egbers: Tüdel Weller. The propaganda poet , in: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology. Ten author portraits . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2009 ISBN 3895287199 p. 313.
  2. ↑ German poets of our time . Edited by Hermann Gerstner and Karl Schworm. Munich: Eher [1939], p. 584, quoted from Egbers (2009), p. 303.
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-w.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-w.html
personal data
SURNAME Weller, Tüdel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weller, Anton Friedrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarn near Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1970
Place of death Holzminden