Albin Stuebs

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Albert Gustav Robert Stuebs , pseudonym Albin Stuebs , (born February 20, 1900 in Berlin , † July 2, 1977 in Hamburg ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Albin Stuebs attended elementary school in Berlin and learned the trade of goldsmith. The first literary works were created under the influence of the Wandervogel movement , in which Stuebs was involved from 1917 to the 1920s. He had been a member of the KPD since the mid-twenties . At the end of the 1920s he made up his Abitur and studied economics in Berlin. He also writes stories, one of which was published by Malik-Verlag.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he was imprisoned in April and July 1933. He emigrated to Czechoslovakia at the end of July 1933 . His novel Milly could no longer appear in Germany, the manuscript is considered lost. In Prague he worked on exile magazines ( Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ), The Counter-Attack, Die neue Weltbühne , Neue Deutsche Blätter ). There he also became a member of the Association of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers (BPRS). After the occupation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in autumn 1938 , Stuebs fled to England, where he lived until 1948 with interruptions. It was during the Second World War 1940-41 "enemy alien" as the ( enemy alien ) for 18 months in Australia interned, where he u. a. together with Peter Stadlen and Ulrich A. Boschwitz .

During his exile in England he broke with communism. After his return from exile in Hamburg, he worked as a department head at the NWDR , later NDR . Stuebs is considered to be the discoverer of Wolfgang Menge . He was a member of Group 47 and took part in the 1st All-German Writers' Congress in Berlin in 1947. His plays enjoyed a certain popularity on Hamburg stages in the 1950s (e.g. Ohnsorg Theater ).

Works

  • The man who got smaller and smaller , in: Wieland Herzfelde (Hrsg.): Dreissig new German narrators , Malik: Berlin, 1933, pp. 397-428, republished Leipzig, 1983, 260-79.
  • Freideutsche Siedlung Höhbeck , Neue Deutsche Blätter, 1934, No. 4, 214-223; 1935, No. 5, 293-298; 1935, No. 6, 354-359.
  • The pied piper among the shield citizens. Acting , in: Das Wort, H. 10, 1938, 65-74, also in: Hansjörg Schneider (Ed.): Pieces from Exile , Berlin, 1984, pp. 101-133
  • Spanish death , London, 1943
  • Romantic foreplay . Roman, Nuremberg, 1946
  • We poor German brothers. Drama , Nuremberg, 1948
  • The real Jakob , Nuremberg, 1949

literature

  • FC Weiskopf: Under strange skies. An outline of German literature in exile 1933–1945 , 1st edition Berlin and Weimar 1981, p. 67, p. 310.
  • Schneider, Hansjörg: An author and his debut. Albin Stübs in exile in Prague , in: Journal for German Studies. New series, H. 2, 1992, p. 367
  • Schneider, Hansjörg: The hunt for money: "The Wheel of Fortune" by Albin Stübs , in: Journal for German Studies. New series, H. 6, 1996, pp. 625-631
  • Ian Wallace: Praise of Migration: Albin Stuebs , in: German Monitor, Fractured Biographies edited by Ian Wallace, pp. 119–180 (62) 2003
  • Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography . Foreword by Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer , Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt, 1962

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stock list of the "Hay Internment Camp"
personal data
SURNAME Stuebs, Albin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stuebs, Albert Gustav Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1977
Place of death Hamburg