Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer
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Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (30 December 1878, in Budapest – 12 April 1962, in Munich) was an Austrian novelist, poet and playwright. Later based in Germany, he belonged to a group of writers that included the likes of Hans Grimm, Rudolf G. Binding, Emil Strauß, Agnes Miegel and Hanns Johst, all of whom found favour under the Nazis.[1]
Life and Work
A
Nazism
He continued to write widely under the Nazis, taking up his pen to praise
His 1934 play Gregor und Heinrich, concerning Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Pope Gregory VII, demonstrated an instance of his pro-Nazi stance as he dedicated it to "the German spirit in the process of being resurrected".[9] As a reward for his high standing under the Nazis he was one of six writers included on 'List A' or the 'List of the God-gifted', properly known as the Gottbegnadeten list, who were exempted from military service on account of their prestige.[10] He was also awarded the Goethe Prize in 1937.[11] In 1940 he published the anthology Vox humana and became a member of the Nazi party.[12]
Post-war writing
Kolbenheyer was banned from writing for five years after the
Quotation
In Kolbenheyer's drama Menschen und Götter (i.e. Men and Gods), Orbis, Prague, 1944:
- SON OF MAN
- Go further monk, and heal
- your excessive pain through my pain.
- It flows to you as a part of yourself
- out of the infiniteness.
- Lo, the drops descend,
- drops of blood out of heart and hand.
- You shall humbly drink
- the salvation by sacrifice, sent by God.[15]
References
- ^ Raymond Furness, The twentieth century, 1890-1945, 1978, p. 255
- ^ a b c d Robert S. Wistrich, Who's Who in Nazi Germany, 2001, p. 144
- ^ Andrew Weeks, Paracelsus, 1997, pp. 25-6
- ^ Klaus P. Fischer, Nazi Germany: A New History, London, 1996, p. 369
- ISBN 3824446073, p. 158; Kolbenheyer: "weltanschauliche Gewissen [...] der weißen Menschheit"
- ^ Jay W. Baird, Hitler's War Poets, 2008, p. 54
- ^ Karl Dietrich Bracher, The German Dictatorship, Penguin, 1970, p. 324
- ^ Viktor Reimann, The Man Who Created Hitler, William Kimber, 1977, p. 182
- ^ Karl-Heinz Schoeps & Kathleen M. Dell'Orto, Literature and film in the Third Reich, pp. 130-1
- ^ Reimann, The Man Who Created Hitler, p. 192
- ^ R. Wistrich, Who's Who in Nazi Germany, 1984, p. 177
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, P. 296.
- ^ Karl-Heinz Schoeps & Kathleen M. Dell'Orto, Literature and film in the Third Reich, p. 289
- ^ Karl Dietrich Bracher, The German Dictatorship, Penguin, 1970, p. 585
- ^ Drama: Menschen und Götter (i.e. Men and Gods), Orbis, Prague, 1944; "Begib dich, Mönch, und heile dein Übermaß an meinem Leid. Es fließt als Teil dem Teile dir zu aus der Unendlichkeit. Sieh an, die Tropfen sinken des Blutes rot aus Herz und Hand. In Demut sollst du trinken des Opfers Heil, von Gott gesandt."
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