Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer
Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer ( born December 30, 1878 in Budapest, † April 12, 1962 in Munich) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and lyricist.
Life
The son of the architect Franz Kolbenheyer and Karlsbaderin Amalie Hein attended high school in Eger. After a philosophy, psychology and zoology studies at the University of Vienna, he was in 1905, Dr. phil. doctorate. In Vienna he became in 1906 a member of the academic symposium Corps. 1919 moved Kolbenheyer to Tübingen, where he lived as a freelance writer until 1932. In the years 1917-1926 he created his major work, the novel trilogy Paracelsus. Since 1926 he was a member of the Prussian Academy of Poets.
Kolbenheyer represented in his works a philosophy of Biologism: He believed there were fundamental biological differences between peoples, and tried -specific idiosyncrasies such as attributable German poetry allegedly biological foundations of German nationality. He founded a school of followers along the lines of the medieval masons.
In 1928, he belonged to the Sponsors of the struggle League for German Culture. In the period from 1933 to 1944, he supported Nazism in numerous speeches and writings. After the death of Paul von Hindenburg, he was one of the signatories of the appeal of cultural workers to referendum on 19 August 1934 on the merger of the Chancellor and President of the Reich Office in the person of Adolf Hitler. In 1940 he joined the Nazi Party. Kolbenheyer Award during the National Socialism in many cases. In 1944, he was informed by Hitler on the special list of the God Gifted list of the six most important writers and enjoyed by more privileges, such as exemption from military service sämtlichem, even on the home front.
After 1945 Kolbenheyer received a five-year ban on writing for his active support of Nazism. He lived in Schlederloh and last in Gartenberg ( Geretsried ) Wolfratshausen. He was a member of the right-wing extremist Society for Free Journalism and its predecessors ..
Werner Berggruen evaluated 1946 Kolbenheyer's work during the Nazi dictatorship with the following words: " In his great vanity he thought, the intellectual life of Germany culminates in his person ."
In the Soviet occupation zone several Kolbenheyer's writings were placed on the list of proscribed literature. In the German Democratic Republic still followed the Kolbenheyer - Book ( 1937).
Kolbenheyer was buried at Forest Cemetery in Gartenberg.
Awards and honors
The Kolbenheyer road in his former residence Geretsried was renamed in the 1990s due to political concerns " Graslitzer road ".
Works
- Giordano Bruno, Drama, 1903
- Amor Dei, Spinoza novel, 1908
- Master Joachim Pausewang, novel by Jakob Böhme, 1910 ( see also Adam of Dobschütz )
- Montsalvasch, novel, 1912
- Aholibamah, short stories, 1913
- The bush burns, poems, 1922
- Paracelsus ( Kolbenheyer ): ISBN 3-469-00108-1 The Childhood of Paracelsus, 1917
- The star of Paracelsus, 1922
- The Third Reich of Paracelsus, 1926