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Manfred Georg Andreas Hausmann ( September 10, 1898 in Kassel – August 6, 1986 in Bremen ) was a German writer , journalist and lay preacher . After neo-romantic beginnings, he turned to Christianity in the early 1930s. In the 1920s he had many followers because of his "vagabond novels"; after the Second World War thanks to his numerous essays, poems, the widely read "Martin stories" and last but not least his sermons.

Manfred Hausmann, son of a manufacturer from Göttingen, attended high school and joined the Wandervogel movement at an early age. In 1916 he passed the Notabitur and became a soldier in the First World War . After the war he studied German, philosophy and art history in Göttingen and Munich . In 1922 he received his doctorate in Munich. phil. PhD. [1] In the spring of 1923 he worked for a while with Friedrich Gundolf in Heidelberg as a habilitation student and at the same time as dramaturg at the Hohentwiel Festival .

In 1923/24 – meanwhile married to the mathematics student Irmgard Schmidt – Hausmann completed a commercial apprenticeship in Bremen. In 1924 the twins Wolf and Tjark were born. In 1924 and 1925 Hausmann was the features editor of the Weser-Zeitung , and he also published his first novellas. [2] He dedicated the book edition with the first two novellas The Spring Celebration and Holder to "Mascha" - that was the nickname of Martha Vogeler (1905 to 1993), the third daughter of the Worpswede artist Heinrich Vogeler.

In 1924 Hausmann founded in Bremen together with Wilhelm Scharrelmann , Hans Friedrich Blunck , Hans Franck , Alma Rogge and others. The Kogge , a group of authors primarily anti-modern, conservative to z. T. völkisch-nationally minded authors of the Low German movement .

At the end of 1925 he resigned from the Weser-Zeitung and traveled through Germany as a tramp for a year, from which his first novel (Lampioon kisses girls and little birches) arose.

The great success of this novel enabled Hausmann to live as a freelance writer from 1927. He settled in the Worpswede artists' colony near Bremen. In 1929 he undertook a trip to America. In 1930 his daughter Bettina was born. As a result of intensive study of the Bible and the writings of Karl Barth , Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky , Hausmann turned to Christianity around 1933. When the (Jewish) publisher Samuel Fischer died in 1934, Hausmann gave the eulogy. [3] In 1936 his son Martin [4] was born. In 1938 his first book of poems , Years of Life , was published .

Hausmann is said to have reported for military service in 1939, but soon had to resign due to an old injury. [5] He lived a secluded life during the war.

From 1945 to 1950, Hausmann sat - as before the war from 1929 to 1933 - for the SPD in the Worpswede municipal council. In 1950 he moved from Worpswede to Bremen-Rönnebeck into a new house that he had built on the steep bank of the Weser, designed by the architect Rolf Störmer . He worked in Bremen from 1945 to 1952 as head of the feuilleton at the Weser-Kurier .

Hausmann's grave is in the Protestant cemetery of the Rönnebeck-Farge church ; he worked here as a preacher.

A 1986 obituary states: "With novels that became the favorite books of a generation in the late 1920s and early 1930s - Lampioon kisses girls and young birches , Salut gen Himmel , Abel with the harmonica - Manfred Hausmann presented himself as a descendant of the young Hamsun , young Hesse , as a romantic with fresh sentimentality and good-for-nothing charm.”

Arn Strohmeyer assumes that Hausmann has a “great affection for everything military”, which, despite his serious injuries in the war, did not wane throughout his life. [31] On the other hand, Hausmann's early works, mostly unpublished, above all poems and short stories, are a clear sign of his traumatization through the experiences of the First World War, which led to a rejection of all forms of violence.

Hausmann's positive comments in a 1978 circular from the Walter Flex Circle of Friends on the "war poet" Walter Flex , who died in 1917, and his poetry are interpreted by Strohmeyer as a sign of a fundamental agreement with his nationalism. [33] He also interprets Hausmann’s doctoral thesis from 1922 , art poetry and folk poetry in the German soldier’s song from 1914/18 [1] , as coming from an alleged preference of Hausmann for war – caused by the lasting impression that the experiences in the First World War had left on Hausmann . [33] Hausmann was already writing poems himself at this time, according to Das Schwert, in which he “virtually glorifies killing,” says Strohmeyer. [34] However, this and other poems by Hausmann can easily be interpreted as a kind of “woe call” about the fateful fascination that exerts power on people and the shock of their own abysses.

In his autobiographical curriculum vitae from 1931, Hausmann confessed that as a young soldier he initially understood “almost nothing about the nature and meaning of war”. It was only in the summer of 1918 in the hospital that "his eyes opened a little".

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