Josef Magnus Wehner
Playwright, Author
1891 – 1973
Who was Josef Magnus Wehner?
Josef Magnus Wehner was a German writer and playwright. Celebrated as a "great German poet" his reputation is criticized for the militarism displayed in his work and his allegiance to the Nazi Party.
Wehner was one of the 88 German authors who signed the Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft, a 1933 "promise of most loyal obedience" to Adolf Hitler. 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 Nazi-past.
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- Born
- Nov 14, 1891
Bermbach - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 14, 1973
Munich
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on July 23, 2013
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