Albert Daudistel

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Albert Daudistel (born December 2, 1890 in Frankfurt am Main , † July 30, 1955 in Reykjavík ) was a German writer (also wrote under the pseudonym Iceland ), bohemian , storyteller and revolutionary of the November Revolution of 1918/1919 .

Life

Albert Daudistel was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1890, where his father ran a small butcher's shop. The father tried in vain to put his son on an apprenticeship as a butcher. Albert ran away from home, from then on lived a vagabond life, became a sailor at the age of 18 and traveled the world. This was probably the most carefree part of his life. He describes his time as a vagabond in Italy in the most cheerful of colors in his autobiographical novel The Sacrifice .

At the beginning of the First World War he was forced into military service, “although I had absolutely no reason to take an active part in that war,” he later wrote. In the fall of 1915 he stood trial for mutiny and was sentenced to ten years in military prison. At the end of the First World War, Daudistel was one of the revolutionary crews of the warships. The one with Eugen Leviné befriended Daudistel was during the second Bavarian Soviet Republic in April / May 1919 (as successor to Felix Noeggerath ) People's Commissar at the Central Commission for political persecution and Foreign revolutionaries (Commission for Refugees). After its failure, that earned him six years of imprisonment in Bavaria. There, at the fortress Niederschönenfeld , he began to write. After his release, he published numerous short stories, short stories and novels during the Weimar Republic. He described his difficult living conditions at the end of the twenties in the report The Life of a Working Poet . He was a member of the writers' association Bund proletarian-revolutionary writers , which was founded in 1928 and was closely related to the KPD , from which he was expelled on May 20, 1930.

Wanted by the Gestapo, Daudistel emigrated with the help of his friend and writer Gerhart Pohl in the mid-1930s via the Giant Mountains to Prague and from there to Denmark and Iceland with the help of the KPD. As an impoverished writer he lived in Reykjavík until his death; his wife Edith provided for a living. Daudistel was still writing, but could no longer publish anything. His main work The Sacrifice , a novel in a natural narrative style and with autobiographical features, was reprinted in both the GDR and the FRG in 1981.

Works

  • The lame gods . Berlin 1924 (short stories)
  • The victim . Berlin 1925 (novel), also Moscow 1928, Berlin - Vienna - Zurich 1929, Munich and Berlin 1981, online
  • Closed for grief . Berlin 1926 (novel)
  • A beautifully unsuccessful trip around the world. Travelogue of a stowaway . Berlin 1926 (short stories)
  • The life of a working-class poet . in the Berlin newspaper Die Welt am Abend . 1929
  • The banana cruiser . Berlin 1935

literature

  • Walter Fähnders: "But these cursed people failed!" Albert Daudistel's novel The Sacrifice . In: “Peace, Freedom, Bread!”. Novels about the German November Revolution . Edited by Ulrich Kittstein / Regine Zeller. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2009 (Amsterdam Contributions to Newer German Studies 71), pp. 139–161. Digitized
  • Thor Whitehead: Stríð fyrir ströndum (War off the Coast). Almenna bókafélagið, Reykjavík 1985, pp. 67-68
  • Hansjörg Viesel (Ed.): Literati on the wall. Gutenberg Book Guild, Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Walter Fähnders and Martin Rector: Left radicalism and literature . Volume 2, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1974, pp. 157-172
  • Lexicon of socialist German literature . Eversdijck, 's-Gravenhage 1973
  • Wolfgang Weismantel: Daudistel, Albert . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German . Volume 2, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh [et al.] 1989.
  • Kurt Böttcher, Herbert Greiner-Mai , Harald Müller and Hannelore Prosche (eds.): Lexicon of German-language writers. From the beginning to the present. Volume 2, Olms, Hildesheim [et al.] 1993.
  • Christine Wittrock: “Albert Daudistel”, in: Burned. To forget? Edited by the Association of German Writers VS, Berlin 2007, p. 54

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Daudistel, Albert short article as digitized version in the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online
  2. ↑ mentioned in Wolfgang Reuter, Carsten Wurm:  Pohl, Gerhart. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 581 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ see Gerhart Pohl's "Fluchtburg" in the Riesengebirge p. 17
personal data
SURNAME Daudistel, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iceland (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1955
Place of death Reykjavík