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.Aims and Objectives of the Paul Ernst Society, on paul-ernst.net, retrieved 31 January 2021. 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.Paul Ernst at the Leipzig Book Fair 2017, on paul-ernst.net, retrieved 31 January 2021. 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),Paul-Ernst-Archive/Collection Kutzbach. In Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg, on uni-regensburg.de, retrieved 31 January 2021. at the Ruhr University Bochum (Privatbibliothek Paul Ernst)Privatbibliothek Paul Ernst, in Ruhr-Uni Bochum, on: ruhr-uni-bochum.de, retrieved 19 November 2017. and at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (estate) exists.Nachlass Paul Ernst, in Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, on dla-marbach.de, retrieved 31 January 2021.

History The literary society was founded in July 1933, just two months after the death of Paul Ernst.Killing Gaze. In Die Zeit 42 (1983), 14 October 1983, on zeit.de, retrieved 31 January 2021.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, , . 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.Karl Schön: The Emperor's Book by Paul Ernst – A Historical Epic. BookRix, Munich 2013, . 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.Foreword, in Jutta Bucquet-Radczewski: Die neuklassische Tragödie bei Paul Ernst (1900–1910). Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993, , . He wrote most of the older research literature on Paul Ernst.Kiefer: The German Novelle in the 20th. Jahrhundert – Eine Gattungsgeschichte. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne/Weimar 2010, , . 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.Der Wille zur Form, on wehrhahn-verlag.de, retrieved 31 January 2021. Furthermore, annual gifts were published for the members.Jahresgabe der Paul-Ernst-Gesellschaft. on paul-ernst.net, retrieved 31 January 2021.

Presidents 1933–1941: Will Vesper (1882–1962).Letter from Will Vesper to Karl August Kutzbach, in Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg, Paul-Ernst-Archiv / Sammlung Kutzbach, Signatur: 250/AM 95805 B8-25,2 bis 25,3/1, on kalliope-verbund.info, retrieved 31 January 2021.Letter from Will Vesper to Karl August Kutzbach, in Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg, Paul-Ernst-Archiv / Sammlung Kutzbach, Signatur: 250/AM 95805 M2 S6-2,6/4, on kalliope-verbund.info, retrieved 31 January 2021. 1941–1942: Interregnum, provisionally by Vice-President Max Wachler (1878–1960). 1942–1945: (1883–1967) 1956–1966: Pastor Georg Noth (1890–1966).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.Speech by Paul Ernst at the Stahlhelm, presumably held in Breslau, mediated by Georg Noth, University Library Regensburg, shelfmark 250/AM 95801 M2-2,4/3, on staatsbibliothek-berlin.de, retrieved 31 January 2021. 1966–1978: Pastor Karl Vogel (1911–2000).The Bells of Weiher, on heimatverein-ubstadt-weiher.de, retrieved 31 January 2021. 1978–1989: Wolfgang Stroedel (1910–1997).Stroedel, Wolfgang, on uni-potsdam.de, retrieved 31 January 2021.Wolfgang Stroedel, on duesseldorf.de, retrieved 31 January 2021. 1989–1996: (1935–2019). 1996–2012: Horst Thomé (1947–2012).Horst Thomé, Prof. Dr., on uni-erlangen.de, retrieved 31 January 2021.Prof. Dr. Horst Thomé, on uni-stuttgart.de, retrieved 31 January 2021.Traueranzeige Prof. Dr. Horst Thomé, on uni-stuttgart.de, retrieved 31 January 2021. since 2012: Marco Bastianelli (born 1976).Marco Bastianelli, on unimc.it, retrieved 31 January 2021.

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.Hildegard Châtellier, on uni-erlangen.de, retrieved 31 January 2021. Eberhard Clemen (1910–1996), lyricist and language teacherEberhard Clemen on WestfAutoren 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.Günter Hartung, on d-nb.info, retrieved 31 January 2021. Wolfgang Heilmann (1913–1992), philosopher and university lecturer. Louis Ferdinand Helbig (1935–2019), Germanist and literary scholar.Louis Ferdinand Helbig, on kulturportal-west-ost.eu, retrieved 31 January 2021. Karl Herke (1889–1965), philosopher, literary scholar, writer and visual artist.Karl Herke, on d-nb.info, retrieved 31 January 2021. 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.Joachim Konrad, on kulturportal-west-ost.eu, retrieved 31 January 2021. Julius Albert Kühn (1887–1970), teacher, writer and literary historian.Julius Kühn, on archivportal-d.de, retrieved 31 January 2021. Carl Heinz Kurz (1920–1993), teacher, writer and publicist.Carl Heinz Kurz, on d-nb.info, retrieved 31 January 2021. Karl August Kutzbach (1903–1992), private scholar, publicist, dean of Paul Ernst research.Karl August Kutzbach, on d-nb.info, retrieved 31 January 2021. 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.Ernst Metelmann, on d-nb.info, retrieved 31 January 2021. 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.Oxenius, Kurt, on kalliope-verbund.info, retrieved 31 January 2021. Karl Polheim (1883–1967), Germanist, literary scholar, university professor and rector. Karl Konrad Polheim (1927–2004), literary scholar.Heimo Reinitzer (ed.): Textkritik und Interpretation – Festschrift für Karl Konrad Polheim zum 60. Geburtstag, Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern 1987, . 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.Heribert Schwarzbauer, on uni-graz.at, retrieved 31 January 2021. Albert Soergel (1880–1958), literary historian. Werner Sombart (1863–1941), sociologist and economist, university professor. Curt Stefke (1894–1943), painter and draughtsman.Curt Stefke, on d-nb.info, retrieved 31 January 2021.Letter from Curt Stefke to Karl August Kutzbach, in University Library Regensburg, shelfmark: 250/AM 95805 B8-30,1/25, on kalliope-verbund.info, retrieved 31 January 2021. Eberhard Ter-Nedden (1908–1986), theologian, philologist, translator and university professorEberhard Ter-Nedden, on d-nb.info, retrieved 31 January 2021. 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 Paul-Ernst-Gesellschaft , on alg.de, retrieved 31 January 2021.

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