Josef Magnus Wehner
German playwright
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Josef Magnus Wehner (14 November 1891 in Bernbach – 14 December 1973 in Munich) 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 | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 November 1891 Bernbach |
| Died | 14 December 1973 (aged 82) Munich |
| Occupations | 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.
