Wilhelm Pleyer

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Wilhelm Pleyer (born March 8, 1901 in Eisenhammer near Hluboka , Austria-Hungary , † December 14, 1974 in Munich ) was a Sudeten German writer and journalist of German national and ethnic origin.

Life

After studying German and Slavic philology, history, art history and contemporary philosophy at the University of Prague , Pleyer worked as a journalist for the magazines Rübezahl and Norden from 1924 . From 1926 to 1929 he held the office of Gau managing director of the German National Party of Czechoslovakia , and was then editor of the Gablonzer Tagesbote , Reichenbacher Tagesbote and the Sudeten German monthly magazines .

In the Nazi state he rose to become one of the most successful Sudeten German writers. He was multiple Nazi literary prizewinner ( Germany is bigger! ). The Volksbrockhaus of 1941 certified that Pleyer had made a significant contribution “to the solution of the Sudeten German question” . In Czechoslovakia, however, Pleyer was convicted several times for anti-Czech agitation and illegal acts until 1938.

The last books before the end of the Second World War were Kraft (1944 as field post edition ) and Der Gurkenbaum (1944 published by Eher-Verlag , the central publishing house of the NSDAP ).

Wilhelm Pleyer (1946)

After fleeing to Bavaria in May 1945, Pleyer was arrested by the American occupation forces in February 1946 and extradited to Czechoslovakia in June 1946. In the Pankrác prison in Prague , he worked in a detachment that sorted goods from the former Theresienstadt ghetto . In August 1947 Pleyer returned to Bavaria , where he continued his writing career in post-war Germany, which was still associated with relevant awards. In 1953 he published the book But we greet the morning about his experiences . Experiences 1945–1947 .

In the Soviet occupation zone , his writings Der Kampf um Böhmisch-Rust ( Langen / Müller , Munich 1938), The Last and First Days (Kraft, Karlsbad 1940), Fighting and Laughing ( Reclam , Leipzig 1941) and Dichterfahrt durch Kampfgebiete (Kraft , Karlsbad 1942) placed on the list of literature to be discarded, followed in the German Democratic Republic by Germany is bigger! (Duncker, Weimar 1932) and Der Puchner (Langen / Müller, Munich 1934).

After 1945 he published in a number of relevant right-wing extremist publishers and series: Nevertheless (1951) Türmer Verlag , Bismarck durchreit die Nacht (1952) Türmer Verlag, Lob der Frauen (1956) Türmer Verlag, Musenbusserln (1957) Türmer Verlag, Der deutsche Writer during this time (1970) in the Arndt publishing house, Was Heimat ist (1970) Eckartschriften Heft 36 or poetry and people consciousness (1971) Österreichische Landsmannschaft. Numerous other books were published by Bogen-Verlag , for example his work on the Sudeten German Volkstum Europe unknown center (1957), in which he defamed the Czechs in a racist manner as "attacking people" and as "foreign people in the heart of Germany", and he gave reasons for these statements a "current of Mongolian blood", which he seeks to prove racially and which among the Czechs breaks into "zeal, hatred and cruelty".

Pleyer was a member of the right-wing extremist Deutsche Kulturwerk Europäische Geist and a sponsor of the right-wing extremist Association of National Students, which was banned in 1961 . He then got involved in the NPD and also became a member of the Society for Free Journalism . In 1971 he was one of the founding members of the DVU . In 2003 the city council of Salzgitter decided to rename a street that had been named after him since 1957.

Wilhelm Pleyer was a brother of the historian and writer Kleo Pleyer , Barbara Rotraut Pleyer is a niece.

Awards and honors

Works

  • The ways of youth, poems , Weinböhla 1921
  • From the Joker Show , Prague 1924
  • The Museum , Reichenberg 1927
  • The bearskin. The German fairy tale for the puppet stage , Munich 1928
  • German protection work 1929 , 1930
  • Germany is bigger! Poems by a borderland German , Weimar 1932
  • Till Scheerauer. The novel of a young German , Weimar 1932 (new version: Till Scheerauer , 1949)
  • The Puchner. A borderland fate , Roman, Munich 1934
  • The Tommahans brothers , Roman, Munich 1937
  • In the inn "To German Unity". Stories from Bohemia , Munich 1937
  • Song from Bohemia. Poems , Munich 1938
  • The battle for Bohemian Rust. 2 stories , Munich 1938
  • The last and the first days. Verses and diary sheets from struggle and liberation , Karlsbad 1940
  • Valley of Childhood , Munich 1940
  • The cucumber tree. Cheerful stories , Munich 1941
  • Fight and laugh , Leipzig 1941
  • Bismarck rides through the night. Picture of a German , novella, Karlsbad 1942
  • Poet's journey through battle zones. A diary , Karlsbad 1942
  • Childhood in Bohemia , Cologne 1942 and 1956
  • Mother's veil. Humorous verses , Karlsbad 1943
  • The call of life , Bielefeld 1943
  • The Nikolsburg adventure. 2 stories , Karlsbad 1944
  • Goodbye! Funny and grim stories , Berlin 1944
  • Praise the women. A frame story , Gütersloh 1948
  • Wir Sudetendeutschen (Ed.), Salzburg 1949
  • Yet. New Poems , Lochham 1951
  • Player in God's Hand , Roman, Giessen 1951
  • The way home , Roman, Munich 1952
  • But we greet the morning. Experiences 1945-1947 , Starnberg, Wels 1953
  • Hirschau and Hockewanzel. The Schwankbuch from the Sudetenland , Augsburg 1957
  • Europe's unknown center. A political reader , Munich, Stuttgart 1957
  • Musenbusserln. Unserious poems , Munich 1957
  • No night is that deep. Stories and songs from the time , Munich, Stuttgart 1957
  • Gustav Leutelt, the poet of the Jizera Mountains , Kaufbeuren-Neugablonz 1957
  • The night of the winners , drama, Munich, Stuttgart 1960
  • Poems from many years , Stuttgart 1962
  • Hans Grimm, EG Kolbenheyer, Will Vesper. Commemorative speech (on July 15, 1962 on the occasion of the Lippoldsberger Dichtertag) , Munich 1962
  • From angles and worlds. Stories , Munich, Stuttgart 1962
  • Paths of Youth (Memories), Munich, Stuttgart 1962
  • Small world circus: all kinds of things from the fields of biology, especially zoology, in particular entomology, morphology, philosophy, theosophy, ontology, sociology, characterology, positivism, nihilism, existentialism and sarcasm, as well as other osophies, ologias, isms and asmuses , Gauting 1969
  • The German writer at that time , Vaterstetten 1970
  • Poetry and Popular Consciousness. Eckartschriften Heft 41, Österreichische Landsmannschaft , Vienna 1971
  • Decades. In speeches, essays, open letters , Frankfurt a. M. 1971
  • In a few words (aphorisms), 1976

Remarks

  1. ^ Hans Günther Adler : Theresienstadt 1941–1945. The face of a coercive community . 2nd edition, Mohr, Tübingen 1960, p. 793.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-p.html
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-p.html
  4. ↑ Europe's unknown center. A political reader . 2nd edition, Bogen-Verlag, Munich / Stuttgart 1957, p. 27.
  5. ↑ Europe's unknown center. A political reader . 2nd edition, Bogen-Verlag, Munich / Stuttgart 1957, p. 46.
  6. ↑ Europe's unknown center. A political reader . 2nd edition, Bogen-Verlag, Munich / Stuttgart 1957, p. 47.
  7. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 460.
  8. ^ Joseph Wulf: Literature in the Third Reich , Frankfurt-Berlin-Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-548-33029-0 , p. 307f.

literature

  • Peter Scholz: ... In the word a perpetrator ... About the writer and journalist Wilhelm Pleyer . In: Brücken (1988/89), pages 60-74
  • Jürgen Hillesheimer / Elisabeth Michael: Entry Wilhelm Pleyer in Lexicon of National Socialist Poets , Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-88479-511-2
  • Hans Sakowicz / Alf Mentzer: Literature in Nazi Germany. A biographical lexicon . Hamburg / Vienna: Europa Verlag (adult new edition) 2002, ISBN 3-203-82030-7

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personal data
SURNAME Pleyer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Iron hammer near Hluboka
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1974
Place of death Munich