Walter Menzl

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Walter Menzl (born May 29, 1906 near Zwickau in Saxony , † 1994 in Marxzell ) was a German philosopher , writer and adventurer.

Life

Walter Menzl was born into a family of miners in simple circumstances. In 1919 the family moved to Westphalia . After attending primary school in Bockum-Hövel , he began an apprenticeship as a surveying technician . After two years he turned around and wanted to become a construction technician . The teacher finished this training a year later. Menzl then worked in mining like his father. He emigrated to Brazil for the first time at the age of 17 . He traveled to South America , but returned several times to his homeland. During this time Menzl worked in a wide variety of professions.

During his philosophical studies in Berlin in 1935 he developed the basic ideas of his philosophy . His main work The Total View of the Universe contains eight theses . It is a philosophical system that aims to improve the world. Since the Nazis did not like his knowledge and philosophy, he had to leave Germany again and went back to South America, this time for two decades . During this time he met the Austrian writer Robert Menasse , who was still a child at the time.

Peter Paul Rubens The fall of the damned into hell

In the 1950s Walter Menzl returned to Germany and lived first in Constance on Lake Constance , then in the Aachen area and finally in the Black Forest .

Infamous notoriety gained Menzl by an acid - stop the Rubens -Painting The Fall of the Damned , which Menzl on 26 February 1959 in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich committed to draw attention to his philosophy.

On July 15, 1959, Menzl was sentenced by the Munich Regional Court to a three-year prison term and payment of damages of DM 800,000 for “damage to property” .

The writer Robert Menasse immortalized Menzl as "Kurt Walmen" in his novel Blessed Times, Brittle World . The first page of this novel begins in the Alte Pinakothek with Walmen's assassination attempt on Rubens The Fall of the Damned ...

Walter Menzl published parts of his works under the pseudonym "Paul Brecher".

Works (selection)

  • 1964: All truth in this world - Erophi-Verlag (as Paul Brecher)
  • 1966: Beyond many borders - Roman Stetten (as Paul Brecher)
  • 1966: Eroticism of the Elite - Stetten (as Paul Brecher)
  • 1974: The Pan-Humanistic Manifesto - Aachen
  • 1946/1980: The total view of the universe - Rio de Janeiro 1946 and Aachen 1980
  • 1980: Nobody really dies - Aachen
  • 1984: Everyone lives forever - Aachen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ chroniknet.de - February 26, 1959, accessed on April 20, 2011
  2. ↑ muenchen.de - City Archives - Chronicle accessed on April 20, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Menzl, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brecher, Paul (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH near Zwickau , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH 1994
Place of death Marxzell