Background
Hans Friedrich Blunck was born in Altona, Hamburg, on 3 September 1888.
Hans Friedrich Blunck was born in Altona, Hamburg, on 3 September 1888.
Blunck was appointed a government Councillor in 1920, and in 1925 legal adviser to the University of Hamburg.
He fully collaborated with the Nazis, declaring in 1934 that 'an old world has collapsed and we Germans are showing the way to a new form of life. We carry a new belief in man and mankind in our hearts.' President of the Reich Chamber of Literature ( 1934—5), a member of the Reich Culture Senate and of the Academy of Literature.
After World War II. he posed as a lamb ot innocence. His two-volume memoirs. Unwegsame Zeiten (1952), are notable mainly for their unrepentant, callous whitewash of Hitler’s Germany.
(The boo was described by the Nazi historian of literature...)
1936Unwegsame Zeit
(Two-volume memoirs are notable mainly for their unrepenta...)
1952(it is a collection of fairy-tales, legends and ghost stor...)
1928Kampf der Gesteine
(The story is dealing with the Stone Age.)
(A book about Central America.)
1929(A niovel about Brasil.)
1927Die Urvatersage
1934Sage vorn Reich
1940His literary work reflected his North German peasant background and strong interest in the folklore of the Baltic and North Sea coastal inhabitants. Historical novels, fairy-tales, prehistorical novels combining Nordic Promethean myths, viking saga and poetry predominated in his work which contained a marked dose of völkisch and National Socialist ideology.