[The Paracelsus dramas of Martha Sills-Fuchs in the circumstances of Julius Streicher's Society of German Public Health].

Abstract

Between 1936 and 1939 the Hungaro-Austrian author Martha Sills-Fuchs (1896-?) wrote three plays, in which Theophrast von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus is the main figure. Written for the ideological purposes of the 'Verein Deutsche Volksheilkunde', founded in 1935 by the radical German Nazi-leader Julius Streicher, Paracelsus was--totally neglecting the historical facts--shown as a precursor of Nazism. It could be demonstrated by detailed analysis, that Martha Sills-Fuchs sketched Paracelsus as a racist, a fighter against the jews, a follower of a mystical 'blood and soil'-ideology and as a medical doctor, who had great respect of 'mother nature' (as the Nazis claimed they had).