Werner Thormann
Werner Thormann (born January 8, 1894 in Frankfurt am Main ; died May 23, 1947 in New York ) was a German left-Catholic journalist.
Life
Werner Thormann was the son of a Catholic high school professor. He attended the Lessing High School . In 1912 he began studying German, Romance languages and history at the University of Munich . During the First World War he was a soldier on the Western Front and the Eastern Front. He finished his studies in 1920 at the University of Frankfurt with a dissertation on Friedrich Schlegel's magazine Concordia .
Thorman initially worked from 1920 to 1923 at theaters in his hometown of Frankfurt. From 1923 to 1933 he was editor of the left -wing Catholic Rhein-Mainische Volkszeitung with a one-year break . At first he worked exclusively in the features section and as an acting critic. After Paul von Hindenburg was elected Chancellor in 1925 , Thormann increasingly wrote political articles with a focus on foreign policy in protest against this development. He also worked as the secretary of the former Chancellor Joseph Wirth and was editor-in-chief of the republican weekly newspaper Deutsche Republik from 1929 to 1933 .
Thormann took Austrian citizenship as early as the 1920s, but stayed in Germany. In March 1933 he fled from the National Socialists to Paris, where he initially worked as a correspondent for the Wiener Echo and the Telegraph . There he was from 1938 to 1940 as the successor to Arthur Koestler editor-in-chief of the exile magazine Die Zukunft and editor and spokesman for the German freedom broadcaster . He also worked for the French Ministry of Information from September 1939. In July 1940 he fled to New York via Spain. There he produced radio broadcasts intended for an audience in Germany. He also stayed briefly in Switzerland.
literature
- Elke Seefried: Werner Thormann. In: John M. Spalek , Konrad Feilchenfeldt , Sandra H. Hawrylchak (eds.): German-language exile literature since 1933. Volume 3. USA: Part 5. KG Saur, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-908255-42-2 , p. 177 -210.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thormann, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1947 |
| Place of death | new York |