Wolfgang Goetz

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Wolfgang Goetz (actually Karl Wolfgang Gustav Goetz , born November 10, 1885 in Leipzig , † November 3, 1955 in Berlin ) was a German writer . Goetz wrote especially effective plays with characters from Prussian and Prussian-German history, as well as contemporary satirical novels and short stories .

Life

Goetz grew up as the son of the factory owner Ernst Goetz on Ferdinand-Rhode-Strasse in Leipzig, attended the Thomas School and after graduating lived as a writer and biographer in Berlin. At the time of the Weimar Republic , Goetz worked as a member of the government at the Berlin Film Inspectorate from 1920 . In 1925 he had a resounding success with the play Gneisenau .

During the Nazi era , Goetz was chairman of the Society for Theater History from 1936 to 1940 . At that time he wrote various historical plays adapted to the zeitgeist, such as the 1939 play Kampf ums Reich ., About the Thirty Years War, which was premiered on May 1, 1940 at the Berlin Schiller Theater with Heinrich George by Jürgen Fehling .

After the end of the war he was initially under French administration from 1946 to 1949 editor of the magazine Berliner Hefte für intellectual life , member of the German PEN center , presidential member of the Association of German Writers' Associations and co-founder of the Academy of Arts (Berlin) , literature section, of which he was a full member 1955 was. Since 1954 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Wolfgang Goetz died suddenly on November 3, 1955 in Berlin of a brain embolism, just seven days before his 70th birthday. He was buried on November 7, 1955 in the state-owned cemetery in Heerstraße in the Charlottenburg district in today's Berlin-Westend district (grave location: 5-F-20/21). Rudolf Pechel , Joachim Tiburtius and Walter Franck spoke words of remembrance.

Works

Stories and novels

  • The Journey into the Blue , narrative, 1920
  • The Grail Miracle , novel, 1926
  • From Sorcerers and Soldiers , Stories, 1926
  • Muspilli , short story, 1929
  • Franz Hofdemel , a Mozart novella, 1932
  • The monk of Heisterbach , novel, 1935
  • Happiness is on the next corner , 1958

Dramas

  • Neidhardt von Gneisenau , play, 1922
  • Robert Emmet , play, 1927
  • Cavaliers , 1930
  • Cuckoo Eggs , play, 1934
  • One god's return , dramatic legend, 1934
  • The Prime Minister , drama, 1935
  • Battle for Reich , play, 1939

Biographies

  • Napoleon , 1926

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Walther Huder:  Goetz, Karl Wolfgang Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 584 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ 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. 189.
  3. ^ Farewell to Wolfgang Goetz . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Friday November 4, 1955. p. 10. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Goetz 'last way . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Tuesday, November 8, 1955. p. 6. Retrieved on November 23, 2019. Birgit Jochens, Herbert May: Die Friedhöfe in Berlin-Charlottenburg. History of the cemetery facilities and their tomb culture . Stapp, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87776-056-2 . P. 219.
personal data
SURNAME Goetz, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goetz, Karl Wolfgang Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1955
Place of death Berlin