Paul Ernst Gesellschaft Explained
The Paul-Ernst-Gesellschaft is a registered association dedicated to the cataloguing and preservation of the literary works of Paul Ernst (1866–1933). The society was founded directly after Ernst's death in 1933 and re-founded after the Second World War in 1956.[1] It is recognised as worthy of cultural and scientific support and open to natural persons and corporations.
Aims and Objectives
The society aims to contribute to the preservation and publication of Ernst's literary estate, to promote performances of his dramas, to initiate publications focusing on his person or his work and symposia with readings and lectures, and to contribute to the preservation of memorials to Paul Ernst.[2] For these purposes, the Paul Ernst Archive is to be successively expanded and used, which is located at the Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg (Paul-Ernst-Archive/Collection Kutzbach),[3] at the Ruhr University Bochum (Privatbibliothek Paul Ernst)[4] and at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (estate) exists.[5]
History
The literary society was founded in July 1933, just two months after the death of Paul Ernst.[6] [7] The founding circle was largely made up of friends, patrons and students of the poet, who subsequently issued a large number of publications and organised numerous events. Paul Ernst's widow (1874–1946) participated in readings from her late husband's work.[8] She influenced the development of the Society, for example by operating the 1942 transfer of the Society's headquarters to Graz.
Karl August Kutzbach (1903–1992), friend and executor of Paul Ernst's estate, became an important figure in the association who researched extensively and throughout his life on his person and work.[9] He wrote most of the older research literature on Paul Ernst.[10] He contributed significantly to the continued existence of the society alongside his niece, the doctor and art collector Hildegard Blanke (born 1938), and Heinrich Steinmeyer (1908–2001), both of whom served as directors.
Publications
In irregular succession, newsletters and the magazine "Der Wille zur Form" have been published.[11] Furthermore, annual gifts were published for the members.[12]
Presidents
- 1933–1941: Will Vesper (1882–1962).[13] [14]
- 1941–1942: Interregnum, provisionally by Vice-President Max Wachler (1878–1960).
- 1942–1945: (1883–1967)
- 1956–1966: Pastor Georg Noth (1890–1966).[15] [16] [17]
- 1966–1978: Pastor Karl Vogel (1911–2000).[18]
- 1978–1989: Wolfgang Stroedel (1910–1997).[19] [20]
- 1989–1996: (1935–2019).
- 1996–2012: Horst Thomé (1947–2012).[21] [22] [23]
- since 2012: Marco Bastianelli (born 1976).[24]
Well-known members
- Hermann Apelt (1876–1960), jurist, politician, senator of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.
- Hans Ludwig von Arnim (1889–1971), church functionary, politician and author.
- Helmut Bartuschek (1905–1984), poet and translator of French literature.
- Hans Bogner (1895–1948), classical philologist.
- Joseph Breitbach (1903–1980), writer and publicist.
- Hildegard Châtellier (1936–2014), university professor and author.[25]
- Eberhard Clemen (1910–1996), lyricist and language teacher[26]
- Ottomar Enking (1867–1945), writer
- Herbert G. Göpfert (1907–2007), publishing bookseller, editor and honorary professor.
- Günter Hartung (born 1932), Germanist, literary scholar, university professor and author.[27]
- Wolfgang Heilmann (1913–1992), philosopher and university lecturer.
- Louis Ferdinand Helbig (1935–2019), Germanist and literary scholar.[28]
- Karl Herke (1889–1965), philosopher, literary scholar, writer and visual artist.[29]
- Curt Hotzel (1894–1967), writer, journalist and publicist.
- Hans-Windekilde Jannasch (1883–1981), educator and writer.
- Paul Anton Keller (1907–1976), writer.
- Martin Kießig (1907–1994), educator, literary critic, author and publicist.
- Joachim Konrad (1903–1979), Lutheran pastor and professor of theology.[30]
- Julius Albert Kühn (1887–1970), teacher, writer and literary historian.[31]
- Carl Heinz Kurz (1920–1993), teacher, writer and publicist.[32]
- Karl August Kutzbach (1903–1992), private scholar, publicist, dean of Paul Ernst research.[33]
- Rudolf Lange (1914–2007), educator, journalist, theatre critic, writer and publicist.
- Norbert Langer (1899–1975), literary historian and publicist.
- Arthur Luther (1876–1955), literary scholar, librarian, translator and interpreter.
- Ernst Metelmann (1901–1981), writer, proofreader and editor.[34]
- Eberhard Wolfgang Möller (1906–1972), writer and playwright.
- Kurt Oxenius (1881–1950), paediatrician, writer and bibliophile, co-founder of the Society of Friends of Books in Chemnitz in 1921.[35]
- Karl Polheim (1883–1967), Germanist, literary scholar, university professor and rector.
- Karl Konrad Polheim (1927–2004), literary scholar.[36]
- Adolf Potthoff (1897–1969), journalist, educator and writer.
- Herbert Reinecker (1914–2007), journalist and author.
- Paul Rilla (1896–1954), journalist and literary scholar.
- Helmut Schoepke (1903–1996), poet and publisher.
- Rolf Schroers (1919–1981), writer.
- Gerhard Schumann (1911–1995), writer.
- Heribert Schwarzbauer (1922–2009), writer, literary and art critic.[37]
- Albert Soergel (1880–1958), literary historian.
- Werner Sombart (1863–1941), sociologist and economist, university professor.
- Curt Stefke (1894–1943), painter and draughtsman.[38] [39]
- Eberhard Ter-Nedden (1908–1986), theologian, philologist, translator and university professor[40]
- Will Vesper (1882–1962), writer and literary critic.
- Walther Vogel (1880–1938), historian and university professor.
- August Winnig (1878–1956), trade unionist, politician and writer.
- Max Zweig (1892–1992), playwright.
Memberships
Notes and References
- http://paul-ernst.net/index.php/ziele-und-aufgaben Aims and Objectives of the Paul Ernst Society
- http://paul-ernst.net/index.php/veranstaltungen Paul Ernst at the Leipzig Book Fair 2017
- https://www.uni-regensburg.de/bibliothek/bestaende/sonderbestaende/paulernst/index.html Paul-Ernst-Archive/Collection Kutzbach.
- http://www.ub.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/informationen/sammlungen.html Privatbibliothek Paul Ernst
- http://www.dla-marbach.de/index.php?id=450&ADISDB=BF&WEB=JA&ADISOI=12019 Nachlass Paul Ernst
- http://www.zeit.de/1983/42/toetender-blick/komplettansicht Killing Gaze.
- Beate Hörr: Tragedy and Ideology – Concepts of Tragedy in Spain and Germany in the First Half of the 20th Century, Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1997,, .
- https://books.google.com/books?id=iVF1AQAAQBAJ&dq=paul+ernst+gesellschaft&pg=PP8 Karl Schön: The Emperor's Book by Paul Ernst – A Historical Epic.
- Foreword, in Jutta Bucquet-Radczewski: Die neuklassische Tragödie bei Paul Ernst (1900–1910). Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993,, .
- https://books.google.com/books?id=iVF1AQAAQBAJ&q=paul+ernst+gesellschaftSascha&pg=PP8 Kiefer: The German Novelle in the 20th. Jahrhundert – Eine Gattungsgeschichte.
- http://www.wehrhahn-verlag.de/index.php?section=02&subsection=details&id=1157 Der Wille zur Form
- http://paul-ernst.net/index.php/publikationen Jahresgabe der Paul-Ernst-Gesellschaft.
- http://kalliope-verbund.info/de/ead?ead.id=DE-611-HS-673690 Letter from Will Vesper to Karl August Kutzbach
- http://kalliope-verbund.info/de/ead?ead.id=DE-611-HS-1247359 Letter from Will Vesper to Karl August Kutzbach
- Wolfgang Heilmann: Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst (1866–1933), in Neue Deutsche Biographie, Vol. IV, Berlin 1971 (reprint of 1959), .
- Georg Noth: Predigt am 15. Juli 1945 in Breslau über Matth. 9,35–38, in Dietmar Neß:, here 48. Quoted after Christian Erdmann-Schott: Geh aus Deinem Vaterland... Vertreibung – Integration – Vermächtnis der evangelischen Schlesier. Lectures, essays, sermons. LIT Verlag, Münster 2008,, pp. 47f.
- http://kalliope.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/de/ead?ead.id=DE-611-HS-508261 Speech by Paul Ernst
- http://heimatverein-ubstadt-weiher.de/weiher/die-glocken-von-weiher/ The Bells of Weiher
- https://opac.ub.uni-potsdam.de/DB=1/FKT=5025/FRM=NH%2B7770%2BWIE/IMPLAND=Y/LNG=DU/LRSET=1/MAT=/SET=1/SID=1178b239-7/SRT=YOP/TTL=1/SHW?FRST=8 Stroedel, Wolfgang
- https://emuseum.duesseldorf.de/view/people/asitem/S/6198?t:state:flow=91e13748-d1ab-4f8a-957b-e12f14989765 Wolfgang Stroedel
- http://www.germanistenverzeichnis.phil.uni-erlangen.de/institutslisten/files/de/01200_de/1290_de.html Horst Thomé, Prof. Dr.
- http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/ilwndl/abteilung/people/em/horst-thome Prof. Dr. Horst Thomé
- http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/ilwndl/abteilung/people/em/Horst-Thome/Kondolenz_2012-10-15.pdf Traueranzeige Prof. Dr. Horst Thomé
- http://docenti.unimc.it/marco.bastianelli Marco Bastianelli
- http://www.germanistenverzeichnis.phil.uni-erlangen.de/institutslisten/files/fr/00900_fr/928_fr.html Hildegard Châtellier
- https://www.lexikon-westfaelischer-autorinnen-und-autoren.de/autoren/clemen-eberhard/ Eberhard Clemen
- http://d-nb.info/gnd/135646391 Günter Hartung
- http://kulturportal-west-ost.eu/korrespondenzen/literatur-und-kunst-279 Louis Ferdinand Helbig
- http://d-nb.info/gnd/116736593 Karl Herke
- http://kulturportal-west-ost.eu/biographien/konrad-joachim-2 Joachim Konrad
- https://www.archivportal-d.de/person/gnd/122424336?query=Julius+K%C3%BChn&isThumbnailFiltered=false&rows=20&offset=0&viewType=list Julius Kühn
- http://d-nb.info/gnd/118725599 Carl Heinz Kurz
- http://d-nb.info/gnd/116642580 Karl August Kutzbach
- http://d-nb.info/gnd/116944536 Ernst Metelmann
- http://kalliope-verbund.info/de/eac?eac.id=117080195 Oxenius, Kurt
- Heimo Reinitzer (ed.): Textkritik und Interpretation – Festschrift für Karl Konrad Polheim zum 60. Geburtstag, Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern 1987, .
- https://franz-nabl-institut.uni-graz.at/de/bestaende/spezialsammlungen/ Heribert Schwarzbauer
- http://d-nb.info/gnd/117228125 Curt Stefke
- http://kalliope-verbund.info/de/ead?ead.id=DE-611-HS-726935 Letter from Curt Stefke to Karl August Kutzbach
- http://d-nb.info/gnd/117273333 Eberhard Ter-Nedden
- http://www.alg.de/de/mitgliedersuche/mitglieddetailansicht.html?memberID=1246 Paul-Ernst-Gesellschaft