Josef Magnus Wehner
Josef Magnus Wehner (14 November 1891 – 14 December 1973) was a German writer and playwright. Celebrated (locally, in Fulda) as a "great German poet" his reputation is criticized for the militarism displayed in his work and his allegiance to the NSDAP.
Josef Magnus Wehner | |
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Born | 14 November 1891 |
Died | 14 December 1973 |
Nationality | German |
Occupation | writer and playwright |
Wehner was one of the 88 German authors who signed the Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft, a 1933 "promise of most loyal obedience" to Adolf Hitler.[1] After the war, he wrote a number of feast plays for religious occasions, including celebrations for Rabanus Maurus and Saint Boniface. In a 1988 study of Wehner, Joachim Hohmann concluded that Wehner's past was too easily forgotten and that his reputation as a Catholic Heimatdichter was undeserved and white-washed his national socialist past.[2]
Works (selection)
- Das Fuldaer Bonifatiusspiel. Fulda: Parzeller, 1954.
- Die Versuchung des Rabanus Maurus. Fulda, 1956.
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References
- 88 "writers", from Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900–1949, Volume 12 of Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, University of California Press 1998 ISBN 0-520-07278-2, p. 367-8
- Hohmann, Joachim S. (1988). Leben und Werk des Kriegs- und Heimatdichters Josef Magnus Wehner. Zeitdruck. pp. 120–23. ISBN 3-924789-12-6.
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