Wolfram Brockmeier

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Wolfram Brockmeier (born March 31, 1903 in Cossebaude , † May 2 or 3, 1945 in Gellberg in Westhavelland) was a German National Socialist poet , member of the Reich Youth Leadership and since 1935 head of the Department of Poetry of the Reich Chamber of Literature .

Life

Brockmeier initially worked as an assistant teacher. In 1930, at the age of 27, he published the volume of poems Storm and Conjuration . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he had been a member of the Reich Youth Leadership since 1934. In 1934 he was awarded the Leipzig Poet Prize.

Parts of his book of poems Eternal Germany , which appeared in 1934, was in the same year by Hugo Distler as Thingspiel - cantata set to music for speech, singing and dancing choruses and "on May 25, 1934 Thing " premiered the Mecklenburg community tags in Lübeck city theater. This premiere took place in the theater with the involvement of the Reich Governor Friedrich Karl Heinrich August Hildebrandt, the local party celebrities and in the presence of the writer Brockmeier. It was broadcast on the radio. The best people had been selected for solo parts. Heinz Dressel was in charge of the conduct, with 350 participants. The church musician Hugo Distler, entangled in the Nazi regime, believed that sacred music was very close to contemporary music - with its state educational objectives. Text example: "Let the grandson keep in his heart the deeds that once happened to him by ancestors for salvation." The consecration verses derive from the same volume of Brockmeier's poems. Der Führer speaks on the radio , which among other things said: "They sat and listened anxiously, / When the voice had long since floated away, / A wake-up call had come, / And they stood, dazed by happiness, / And knew that Germany was alive. "

In the same year Brockmeier wrote the choral game People and Leader and the commissioned work Confession to Youth , which was performed at the 1935 Nazi Party Congress. From 1935 he was head of the poetry department of the Reichsschrifttumskammer.

On the day of the seizure of power Brockmeier wrote a confession song in 1937 under the title People is the chain , two years later a "flag song" fluttering our flags flutter over our broad stride and in 1940 the confession song Uns touched a sound , all set to music by Hans G. Lang .

Despite his commitment to National Socialism, Brockmeier only became a member of the NSDAP in 1939 and was registered under the party number 7.265.102.

His song “ You Germany will stay ” from the volume of poetry of the same name was included in the song sheets of the Luftgaukommando West France in 1942.

In 1942 Brockmeier became a consultant in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and HJ Hauptbannführer. He wrote various texts for the Krakauer Zeitung , the general government's propaganda sheet . In 1944 he also worked for the Reich Labor Service .

Various poems and works by Brockmeier were set to music by well-known composers during the Nazi era, in addition to Hugo Distler, among others, by Helmut Bräutigam , Friedrich Glier , Markus Koch , Karl Michael Komma , Ludwig Kusche , Gerhard Maasz , Karl Marx , Siegfried Reda , Heinrich Spitta , Kurt Thomas , Karl Wittkopp , Gottfried Wolters and Cesar Bresgen . In 1937 Wolfgang Fortner set Brockmeier's celebratory cantata for mixed choir and orchestra From the Strength of Community to the Bicentenary of the University of Göttingen and premiered it on June 26, 1937.

Brockmeier died on May 2 or 3, 1945 in the fighting in Westhavelland with the rank of major and was buried in Ketzin-Zachow .

In the post-war period, the following writings by Brockmeier were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone : Confession of the Young. A choral seal for Hitler Youth (Reichsjugendführung, Berlin 1935), Ewiges Deutschland (Goten-Verl., Leipzig 1934), You, Germany, will remain (Kallmeyer, Wolfenbüttel 1941), Ewiges Volk (Strauch, Leipzig 1936) and Volk und Führer (Strauch, Leipzig 1934).

Works (selection)

  • 1930 Storm and Conjuration , poems
  • 1934 Eternal Germany , poems
  • 1934 Volk und Führer , speaking choir
  • 1935 Confession of the Youth: A choral poem for the Hitler Youth . Edited by the Department of Culture d. Reich youth leadership
  • 1935 contemplation and change . Poems
  • 1936 Eternal People. German youth games
  • 1937 The Ravensburger standard bearer . Anecdotes and stories
  • 1937 Storm and Conjuring , Second increased edition
  • 1938 Introduction to Old German Cities
  • 1940 Silent World , poems
  • 1941 You will stay Germany , poems
  • 1942 Wolfram Brockmeier reads poems and stories in Generalgouvernement , published by the Government of the Generalgouvernement , Chief Abbot. Propaganda, Culture Dept., Krakow
  • 1943 You will stay Germany , greatly expanded new edition of the volume Ewiges Deutschland
  • 1944 Little Elegy , manuscript print

literature

  • 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 , entry Brockmeier, Wolfram , p. 81.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See entry DNB.
  2. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 1.189.
  3. ^ A b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 1.188. - For the premiere cf. Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck theater world." The city theater during the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . Pp. 91, 284-286, 563.
  4. ↑ Complete text from Joseph Wulf : Press and Funk in the Third Reich. A documentation . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-548-33028-2 , pp. 336-337; Also quoted from Ernst Klee: The cultural dictionary on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 81.
  5. ^ A b Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 81.
  6. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 4.097; P. 4.100.
  7. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 4.097; P. 4.222.
  8. ↑ Information according to Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, each under the entry.
  9. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 706.
  10. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 1.633, and p. 8324.
  11. ↑ Commemorative Book of World War Victims ( Memento from October 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), only available in cache
  12. ^ List of literature to be discarded
  13. ↑ Compilation according to information from the DNB.
personal data
SURNAME Brockmeier, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Cossebaude
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1945 or May 3, 1945
Place of death Gellberg