Wilhelm Matthießen

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Wilhelm Matthießen (born August 8, 1891 in Gemünd / Eifel ; † November 26, 1965 in Bogen / Bavaria ) was a German writer .

Life

Wilhelm Matthießen was the son of an official . Matthiessen visited the school in Dusseldorf and studied then philosophy , history , German studies and theology at the universities of Bonn and Berlin . In 1917 he received his doctorate in Bonn with a thesis on Paracelsus as a doctor of philosophy. After a short time as a soldier in the First World War , he was released due to illness. From 1917 Matthießen lived as a freelance writer in Munich . At the suggestion of the publisher Hans von Weber , he published fantastic novels , stories and fairy tales for children influenced by German Romanticism . In addition, he acted as editor of some volumes of the Paracelsus Complete Edition; in 1920 and 1921 he was a member of the editorial team of the Catholic cultural magazine Hochland .

In 1924 Wilhelm Matthießen returned to the Rhineland and in the following years lived with his family in a former hunting lodge in the Kottenforst near Bonn. The Herder and Schaffstein publishers published numerous other volumes with fairy tales and exotic adventure stories based on the model of Karl May, who was valued by Matthießen . Matthießen's most successful work was the school and detective novel Das Rote U , published in 1932 .

The Catholic Matthießen, whose works were marked early on by a predilection for Nordic-Germanic mythology , developed under the influence of the Ludendorffians into a radical anti-Semite and enemy of the church , who expressed his convictions during the Third Reich in works such as The Key to Church Power (1937) , Israel's Secret Plan of the Destruction of Nations (1938) and Small Bible Dictionary for the German People (1939). In 1939 Matthießen went back to Munich, where he worked as a librarian until 1945 .

After 1945 Wilhelm Matthießen lived in Steinach in Lower Bavaria . Without distancing himself from his earlier inflammatory pamphlets, from 1949 he published again - decidedly non-political - books for children and young people . While most of Matthießen's extensive literary work has now been forgotten, children's books such as The Red U , The Old House and The Green School are still available today; however, the publisher has only been referring to the author's political past for a few years. - In the Soviet zone and the early GDR , seven works by Matthießen were on the " List of literature to be sorted out" after 1945 .

Works

  • The form of religious behavior in Theophrast von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus , Düsseldorf 1917
  • The night in the bookcase , Munich 1918
  • Hans the robber and Margret the sorceress , Munich 1919
  • The great Pan , Leipzig [u. a.] 1920
  • The Himmelküster , Munich 1920
  • James CW Plum Kabeuschen or The Great Master , Leipzig [u. a.] 1920
  • July nights , Hartenstein [a. a.] 1920
  • News from Wolf Holderkautzens life, deeds and opinions , Leipzig [u. a.] 1920
  • Regiwissa , Leipzig [a. a.] 1920
  • The end of those von Knubbelsdorf and two other adventures of the world detective Kabeuschen , Leipzig [u. a.] 1921
  • Karl May's wonderful Ascension and two other fairy tales , Leipzig [u. a.] 1921
  • The lost dog or the moon calf , Leipzig [u. a.] 1921
  • The Ghost Castle , Leipzig [a. a.] 1922
  • Musical fairy tales , Munich 1922
  • The old house , Freiburg 1923
  • On the roof of the world , Zurich 1923
  • The royal bride , Regensburg 1923
  • The treasure diggers , Ludwigsburg 1923
  • The flood , Berlin 1923
  • Karlemann and Flederwisch or what two funny journeymen experienced on their strange trip around the world , Freiburg i. Br. 1926
  • Regilindenbrunn , Leipzig 1926
  • The Book of the Dead , Cologne 1926
  • The gentleman with a hundred eyes , Freiburg i. B.
    • 1 (1927)
    • 2. The north country expedition of the Lord with the hundred eyes , 1928
    • 3. The robber hunt , 1929
  • The angel child , Freiburg i.Br. 1928 (together with Ernst Rieß)
  • Görres , Rottenburg a. Neckar 1928
  • The Katzenburg , Freiburg i. B. 1928
  • In the tower of the old mother , Freiburg i. Br. 1930
  • Die alte Gasse , Stuttgart 1931 (together with Else Wenz-Viëtor )
  • The good Knipperdalles and other fairy tales , Stuttgart 1931
  • German house fairy tales , Munich 1931
  • The bell in the mountain , Dülmen 1931
  • The green school in the fairytale forest near the old house , Freiburg 1931
  • The clever farmers of Hörnum , Halle 1931
  • The master run of the gentleman with 100 eyes , Freiburg 1931
  • Sankt Martin , Freiburg 1931
  • Letters to a sick friend , Cologne 1932
  • The chicken fair and other fairy tales and stories , Halle 1932
  • The red U , Cologne 1932
  • The mysterious kingdom , Cologne 1933
  • Holy Earth , Munich 1933
  • The Kauzenberg , Cologne 1933
  • Nemsi Bey , Cologne
    • 1 (1933)
    • 2. Under the Komitajis , 1934
    • 3. On the Golden Horn , 1933
    • 4. On the Golden Horn , 1933
  • Litill, the dwarf from Osterhasenberg , Bochum 1934
  • Fairy tale from Kabeuschen his little house , Bochum 1934
  • Max and the three , Cologne 1934
  • The eyes of Jelena , Munich 1935
  • Treasure diggers at Hollenstein , Bochum 1935
  • The Magic Flute , Berlin 1935
  • The little robbers , Cologne 1936
  • Lieselümpchen , Cologne 1936
  • The silent fountain , Cologne 1936
  • Hans in school , Erkenschwick, District Recklinghausen iW 1937
  • Fairy tales from the Jägerhaus , Cologne 1937
  • The key to church power , Munich 1937
  • Israel's secret plan of the annihilation of peoples , Munich 1938
  • Fairy tales from the magic forest , Cologne 1938
  • The seven masters and other fairy tales , Cologne 1938
  • Israel's ritual murder of the peoples , Munich 1939
  • Meier, the dachshund , Lengerich 1939
  • The circumcised Moses , Munich 1939
  • Small Bible Dictionary for the German People , Munich 1940
  • Rome in its saints , Munich 1940
  • The happy islands , Regensburg 1949
  • The moon ship , Cologne 1949
  • The Wehrhahn case , Cologne 1951
  • Eagle of the Black Mountains , Stuttgart 1953
  • Escape from Anatolia , Cologne 1955
  • Gicks in the oven and other fairy tales , Cologne 1957
  • Time and Eternity , Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth 1958
  • My umbrella, no umbrella , Cologne 1960
  • The Gloria Garden and Other Fairy Tales , Cologne 1961
  • The colorful cuckoo , Cologne 1962

Editing

literature

  • Robert N. Bloch: Wilhelm Matthiessen . - In: Bibliographisches Lexikon der Utopisch-Fantastischen Literatur, Meitingen, Lfg. 57 (1999)
  • Florian Krobb: Phantastik - Volkischer Aufbruch - Jugendliteratur , Würzburg 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Matthießen, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthiessen, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of books for children and young people
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemünd
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1965
Place of death arc