Anton Schnack
Anton Schnack ( born July 21, 1892 in Rieneck / Lower Franconia, † September 26, 1973 in Kahl am Main ) was a German writer.
Biography
The younger brother of the writer Friedrich Schnack was also born in Rieneck as the third child of a police station commander. The official dislocations of his father led whistles after Dettelbach, Kronach and mutton castle where he finally graduated Progymnasium ( predecessor of the Frobenius -Gymnasium ). After working as a journalist, among other things in Halberstadt and Bolzano, and whistles took 1915/1916 until he was wounded in the First World War in part. After the war, as an editor working in Darmstadt, whistles began with the first poem publications. 1920 to 1925 he was employed as a features editor and theater critic for the New Baden State newspaper in Mannheim and married on October 24, 1924 Maria Gloeckler. He then went on extended trips abroad that took him to France, Italy and Dalmatia. After a renewed activity in Mannheim and several moves, the couple settled down and whistles until 1933 in Berchtesgaden. He was among the 88 writers who had signed the pledge faithful followers of Adolf Hitler in October 1933.
Relocated in 1937 to Frankfurt am Main, Schnack was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1944. After a brief U.S. captivity, he finally settled permanently in Kahl am Main, where he died on 26 September 1973.
Literary creation
Anton Schnack devoted himself as a writer, especially of poetry and small prose pieces which were published in several collections like " The colorful Piety " (1938 ), "Encounters in the Evening" (1940 ), etc.. In addition to various short stories have been published by him only two novels.
Schnack is estimated as a master of poetic miniature, which turned his attention to the little things and the trivialities of everyday life and this aroused by his word art to an almost perceptible life.
His work is still largely fallen more than his brother Friedrich Schnack into oblivion. All publications were until now available only second-hand. First published in 2003 to 30 years later, a two-volume work output in an ivory -Verlag, the anxious Paderborn Scientific Literature Prof. Dr. Hartmut Vollmer.
His work " meetings in the evening " was translated into the 70's in Korean and used in the classroom