Albert Hotopp

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Albert Hotopp (born September 20, 1886 in Berlin , † after August 1, 1942 in the USSR ) was a German writer .

Life

Albert Hotopp was the son of a blacksmith. After training as a waiter, he worked in this profession until 1904. Then he went to Bremen, where he worked as a machine worker; then he went to sea as a stoker and sailor on merchant ships. During this time he got his first impressions of strike action by the labor movement in Great Britain . He joined the SPD and worked as a fitter of railway signal systems. After his departure from social democracy in 1912, he sympathized at times with anarcho-syndicalist currents. Hotopp was also an employee of the union press . In the First World War he was a radio operator.

Albert Hotopp took part in the November Revolution in 1918 and became a member of the USPD , in 1920 he switched to the KPD . He was now active as a stoker and crane operator and also active as a works council . After a strike he was charged with preparing for high treason and sentenced to three years in prison, which he served in Cottbus from 1923 to 1926 . During this time, the first short stories were written and published in the Rote Fahne . After his release from prison, Hotopp was political leader of the KPD in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district and city ​​councilor until 1929 . He was a member of the Red Front Fighters Association and since 1928 of the Association of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers ; a close friendship connected him with the author Willi Bredel .

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " Albert Hotopp lived illegally in Germany until February 1934. He then emigrated to the Soviet Union , where he first worked in German-language publishing and from 1936 was lecturer for German and dean at a foreign language institute in Moscow . He was arrested on May 22, 1941 and sentenced to death by shooting on August 1, 1942. However, the sentence was not carried out. After that his track is lost; Hotopp is believed to have died in a Soviet gulag labor camp .

Albert Hotopp is best known for his novel Fischkutter HF 13 , in which the author provides a realistic representation of life at sea from a communist perspective. The three volumes of short stories published in the Soviet Union mainly deal with working life, wartime experiences and anti-fascist resistance against National Socialism .

Works

  • Fishing cutter HF 13 , Berlin 1930
  • Storms over the sea , Engels 1933
  • The Invincibles , Engels 1935
  • Stander "Z" , Moscow 1936
  • Fishing cutter HF 13 , unchanged. Reprint of the edition from 1930. Ed. And with a follow-up by Ulf-Thomas Lesle and Ulrike Jarnach. Hamburg 1986

literature

  • Ulrike Jarnach: Albert Hotopp: Author of everyday proletarian life in Hamburg? In: Inge Stephan / Hans-Gerd Winter (eds.): "Love that drops anchor in the abyss". Authors and the literary field in Hamburg in the 20th century. Hamburg 1990, 111-129.
  • Hotopp, Albert . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hotopp, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after August 1, 1942
Place of death USSR