Walter Julius Bloem

Walter Julius Bloem (born October 22, 1898 in Barmen ; † 1945 missing) was a German writer who became known under the pseudonym Kilian Koll . Bloem was an officer in the First and Second World Wars and a member of the SS .

Life

Walter Julius Bloem was born in 1898 as the son of the writer Walter Bloem , who achieved great fame as the author of national novels, and his first wife Margarete Kalähne.

Walter Julius Bloem suffered from irreparable hearing damage from an early age. Nevertheless, he enlisted at the age of 16 years in 1915 as a volunteer in the First World War to the front after he had met the requirement of his father, the transition to the Easter 1915 Oberprima to create. During the war he received several awards ( Iron Cross of both classes) and at the end of the war he was a lieutenant and company commander on the Western Front . He was wounded several times and his hearing had deteriorated so much due to the war that he was almost deaf. After the war he fought against Polish irregulars in a volunteer corps near Posen until 1919 .

When he returned to civilian life, Bloem studied philosophy and was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . After several trips through Germany and Western Europe, he finally settled with his wife as a settler in Nikolaiken / East Prussia .

Bloem began to be active as a writer and poet. Among other things, he focused on the new medium of film. In 1922 he wrote a work entitled The Soul of the Light Game - A Commitment to Film , which is still recognized by film theorists today. To set himself apart from his famous father, he used the pseudonym Kilian Koll .

In addition, he discovered a love for gliding.

Bloem welcomed the " seizure of power " by Adolf Hitler in 1933 and saw in him the savior of Germany. In his works he glorified National Socialist ideas.

Despite his severe disability, he managed to join the Air Force as an officer in 1938 . During the Second World War he flew in the Boelcke squadron in the war against Poland and France . In May 1940 he was shot down, but was able to save himself by parachute. After a short French imprisonment, he returned to Germany.

He joined the Waffen SS , where he last fought in May 1945 in the battles in and around Berlin . He has been missing since then.

After the end of the war, several of his works were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet zone of occupation .

Works

• Soul of the play of light. A commitment to film (1922, under the name Walter Bloem the Younger)
• Dance around the Light (1925)
• The Stone Fire (1926)
• Stone becomes dust (1926)
• Motorheart (1927)
• Fire in the North (1929)
• The Man Who Can Cope With This Time (1933)
• Return to the team (1934)
• Air pirates. A cheerful aviator novel (1935)
• Vacation on word of honor. Tales of the War (1937)
• Andreas on the move (1938)
• The wing tugs. Diary from a glider piloting school (1938)
• Festival for Walter Bloem's seventieth birthday (1938)
• The birch branch. Songs (1939)
• The invisible flag (1939; published in 1940 under the title Het onzichtbare vendel in Dutch translation)

The short story Urlaub auf Ehrenwort was filmed twice: Once in 1937 under the direction of Karl Ritter (actors including René Deltgen , Berta Drews , Carl Raddatz and Paul Dahlke ). A remake was made in 1955 (director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner , actors including Claus Biederstaedt and Paul Esser ).

literature

• Jürgen Hillesheim , Elisabeth Michael: Lexicon of National Socialist Poets. Biographies, analyzes, bibliographies. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993, pp. 301-308.

See also

• Air War in World War II

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Walter Bloem in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Kilian Koll in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-b.html
2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-k.html
3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-k.html