Hans Christoph Kaergel
Hans Christoph Kaergel (born 6 February 1889 in Strzegom, died 9 May 1946 in Wrocław) is a German writer and playwright.
The parents of Hans Christoph Kaergel were teachers. He himself completed the teacher's seminar in Boleslawiec. In the years 1910-1921 he worked as a teacher at Weißwasser / Oberlausitz. In 1921 he founded the Bühnenvolksbund für Sachsen and moved to Dresden. In the interwar period he wrote dramas on the eastern border of the Reich directed against Poles and Czechs: Volk ohne Heimat (1922) and Hockewanzel, Andreas Hollmann (1933). They are influenced by Gerhart Hauptmann's work. He also wrote novels related to the anti-Christian theology of Hermann Stehr and Joseph Wittig: Heinrich Budschigk (1925) and Ein Mann stellt sich dem Schicksal (1929). After 1933, he spoke on the side of the Nazis. From 1936 he lived in Przesieka in the Giant Mountains. In 1939 he became head of the Silesian Chamber of Writers of the Reich. After World War II he was arrested. He died in prison at ul. Kleczkowska in Wroclaw. Bibliography Authoritative control (person):
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