Wolfgang Schumann (writer)

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Wolfgang Schumann (born August 22, 1887 in Dresden , † April 22, 1964 in Freital ) was a German writer and journalist .

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Wolfgang Schumann was the son or stepson of the Dürerbund founder Paul Schumann and Ferdinand Avenarius . His mother, Elsbeth geb. Doehn, had divorced Paul Schumann and married Avenarius in 1894. Their father, Rudolf Doehn , was a German-American writer and temporarily MP in Missouri .

From 1905 Schumann studied art history , medicine , psychology , sociology , philosophy and philology in Dresden, Berlin and Munich and was a speaker at the Dresdner Anzeiger . The Dürerbund scholarship holder Karl Hanusch gave him lessons in drawing . In 1908 he became editor of the literature section at the Kunstwart . At the Dürerbund he headed the literary adviser and the annual literary report . In 1912 he married the translator and writer Luise Eva Feine .

In 1918 Schumann joined the SPD . During this time he had close relationships with Otto Neurath , whom he had met for the first time in Vienna in 1908. Neurath was one of the regular authors of the Dürerbund and decisively influenced Schumann's philosophical views. Together with Hermann Kranold from Chemnitz , he developed a program for socialization in Bavaria and Saxony. Schumann was nominated by Neurath as the person responsible for press and public relations in the Central Economic Office of the Munich Council Republic . In Leipzig Schumann was general secretary of the War Economics Museum under Neurath and in Dresden editor of the Dresdner Volkszeitung (1922–1933), co-founder and lecturer at the adult education center as well as 2nd chairman and editor at the Volksbühne .

In 1923 Schumann published a collection of texts by the murdered Reich Minister Walther Rathenau .

In 1924/25 he took over the management of the Kunstwarts and as the first secretary of the Dürerbund nominally headed by his father, Paul Schumann, its intellectual leadership. The consequences of the First World War , economic crises, but also Schumann's unsuccessful behavior led to the decline of the Kunstwart and Dürerbund. Schumann's high literary claim partially overwhelmed the readership, with his left-wing orientation he came into conflict with Paul Schultze-Naumburg . In 1926 he was released from the management of the art warden by Callwey Verlag Munich . Schumann was one of the patrons of Hermann Häfker and, as a radio editor , warned urgently against the emergence of National Socialism .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , the Schumann couple temporarily emigrated to Prague, Paris and London. They then stayed for a long time with their friend Marianne Bruns in Breslau. Schumann had been banned from writing, but was able to earn income from renting out the Dürerbund house he inherited from his stepfather and his own villa in Heinrich-Schütz-Strasse immediately next door . Shortly before the end of the war, the couple returned to Blasewitz , but their home, a villa built by Schilling & Graebner on Ferdinand-Avenarius-Strasse , was destroyed on February 13, 1945 in the air raid on Dresden . They were accepted by their friend Karl Hanusch in Freital .

From 1945 to 1947 Schumann was director of the theater in Plauenschen Grund in Potschappel , one of the first post-war theaters in the Dresden area. Eva Schumann was made an honorary citizen in Freital .

Works

  • Contemporary literature and the war , leaflet of the Dürerbund 137, Munich: Callwey, 1915
  • Our Germanness and the Spitteler case: evidence and considerations , leaflet on culture of expression 135, Munich: Callwey, 1915
  • Reform and socialization of the daily press , leaflet of the Dürerbund 183, Munich: Callwey, 1919
  • About the Dürerbund; Comments on history, nature, etc. Task d. Dürerbund , Munich: Callwey, 1919
  • Regarding the adult education issue: Comments and suggestions primarily on municipal adult education institutions and e. critical trans. about d. more recent literature , leaflet of the Dürerbund 184, Munich: Callwey, 1921
  • with Karl Hanusch : From Brueghel to Rousseau. Introduction to the Art of Time . Munich: Callwey, 1923
  • Science: a contemplation of its nature and its mission . Munich: Callwey, 1923
  • Acting and actors , pamphlets of the Dürerbund 200, Munich: Callwey, 1926
  • Sexuality and love , Kunstwart-Bücherei 50, Munich: Callwey, 1928
  • Sexuality and Love: Reflections on Life Issues . Zurich: A. Müller, 1944
  • Everyone longs for a home for life . Dresden: Meinhold Verlagsges., 1944
  • About happiness in life: Breviary of the art of living as a helper in the struggle for life . Zurich; Rüschlikon, 1950
  • Flaming island in the ocean: a biographical novel about Toussaint l'Ouverture . Leipzig: List, 1953
  • Star from the deep: A Spartacus novel . Vienna: The Book Community, 1959

editor

  • Walther Rathenau: Art Philosophy and Aesthetics. Compiled and introduced by Wolfgang Schumann. Munich: Callwey, 1923.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Neurath: Empiricism and Sociology . Edited by Marie Neurath and Robert S. Cohen. Dordrecht-Holland / Boston-USA: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1973.
  2. ^ Gerhard Kratzsch: Kunstwart and Dürerbund. A contribution to the history of the educated in the age of imperialism . Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1969. ISBN 3-525-36125-4 .
  3. ↑ Frank Fiedler : Memories of the Dürerbund House " (PDF file; 442 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1964
Place of death Freital