Wolfgang Schreckenbach

Wolfgang Schreckenbach (born March 12, 1904 in Klitzschen ( Torgau district ), † March 1, 1986 in Isny im Allgäu ) was a German writer .

Life

Wolfgang Schreckenbach was a librarian . He lived in Leipzig until the 1950s, then in Solingen-Wald and later in Isny im Allgäu .

After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, Wolfgang Schreckenbach wrote a number of plays in the interests of the new rulers, as well as plays for children. His greatest success was the historical novel "Die Stedinger", published in 1936 , which deals with the medieval " Stedinger War " from a national point of view . The book, of which an edition was also published by the party’s own Eher Verlag , was reprinted again and again until the Second World War and reached a circulation of over 100,000 copies.

Wolfgang Schreckenbach apparently did not publish anything after the end of the Third Reich ; After 1945 most of his works were on the " lists of literature to be sorted out " in the Soviet occupation zone and the early GDR .

Works

• Poems , Leipzig 1928
• The victim , Leipzig 1933
• The German Christmas Eve , Leipzig 1934
• The lazy Michel , Leipzig 1934
• Mother and Child , Leipzig 1934
• Solstice, People's Turn , Leipzig 1934
• The speaking choir of Blood and Soil , Leipzig 1934
• Wolverine or common good comes before selfish! , Leipzig 1934
• The homecoming , Leipzig 1935
• Rhyming games and poems for German youth , Leipzig 1935
• Rumpelstiltskin , Leipzig 1935
• The Heinzelmännchen , Leipzig 1936
• The Stedinger , Leipzig 1936
• The witch of Osterhagen , Stuttgart 1937
• Gudrun , Stuttgart 1938

Editing

• Die Totenfeier , Leipzig 1935 (published together with Conrad Witzmann)

Web links

• Book chapter by Frank Westenfelder on the novel "Die Stedinger"