Menno ter Braak

Menno ter Braak ( born January 26, 1902 in Eibergen; † 14 May 1940, The Hague) was a Dutch writer.

Life

Menno ter Braaks parents were the doctor Ernst Gerrit ter Braak and his wife Alida Geertruida Huizinga; Johan Huizinga was his cousin. He grew up in Tiel. He studied Dutch and history at the University of Amsterdam and Berlin. 1928 received his doctorate with a dissertation on the Emperor Otto III. Ideal and practice in the early Middle Ages. He then worked for several years as a teacher. Influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche and Oswald Spengler, he turned away from Christianity.

Even as a student wrote Ter Braak for the satirical magazine Propria Cures and was interested in the film and its aesthetics. In 1927 he founded with Joris Ivens, Henrik Scholte, Jurriaan Leendert (Leo) Jordaan and Constant van Wessem Nederlandsche Filmliga. With Edgar du Perron and Maurice Roelants he founded in 1931 the literary magazine Forum. From 1933 until his death he was editor of the arts section of the liberal daily newspaper Het Vaderland in The Hague. Ter Braak made ​​by his acclaimed contemporary German literature reviews known in the Netherlands, especially since the resulting in Exile Literature: Thomas Mann, with whom he was friends, Jakob Wassermann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Alfred Döblin and Konrad Merz.

Early Ter Braak warned against Nazism. In 1934 he joined the Comité van Waakzaamheid ( vigilance committee ) and became involved in the anti-fascist movement in the Netherlands. On the sixth day of the German invasion, the day the Dutch surrender, Ter Braak died by suicide after it was no longer he managed to escape to England.

Works (selection)

Writings on politics, religion and philosophy

  • Afscheid van domineesland, 1931
  • Demasqué the schoonheid, 1932
  • Politicus zonder partij, 1934
  • Het nationaalsocialisme as rancuneleer, 1937
  • Van oude en nieuwe Christenen, 1937
  • Douwes Dekker en Multatuli, 1937
  • De Augustijner monnik en zijn Trouwe duivel, 1938 ( on Martin Luther )

Novels

  • Hampton Court 1931
  • Dr. Dumay family movie, 1933

His writings and his extensive correspondence issued by the Stichting Menno ter Braak.

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