Alexander Count Stenbock-Fermor
Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor (born January 30, 1902 at Nitau Castle near Riga , † May 8, 1972 in West Berlin ) was an author and resistance fighter during the Nazi era . He was a member of the White Guard and later the League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers . He wrote under the pseudonym "Peter Lorenz".
Life
Stenbock-Fermor was initially a volunteer in the Baltic State Army . He emigrated to Germany in 1920. Here he began to study engineering and got to know miners in the Ruhr area as a student trainee , where he transformed from anti-communist to communist. In 1929 he married Charlotte, born in Neustrelitz . Schledt (born August 20, 1906 in Dorpat , † February 1966 in Stockholm ). From 1929 he worked as a freelance writer, film author and radio play writer. Stenbock-Fermor became a member of the League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers.
At the end of 1931, Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor, on the initiative of Red Aid Germany, called for the establishment of non-partisan Scheringer committees , which campaigned for its amnesty . In this context he appeared on October 23, 1932 in Rölsdorf , in the dance hall of the Arnold Scheeben pub, at a meeting of the Rote Hilfe Düren in front of 600 people. He spoke on the subject: "From white officer to red soldier". Stenbock-Fermor reported on Richard Scheringer's conversion from National Socialism to Communism .
He was arrested on March 15, 1933 when the Berlin artists' colony was searched in the course of a major raid . He belonged to the magazine Aufbruch , which appeared from 1931 to 1933. There he was a member of the resistance organization RAS . At the end of the Second World War he lived in Mecklenburg. From November 1 to December 31, 1945 he was Lord Mayor of Neustrelitz . In 1947 he became chief editor of the newly founded publishing house Volk und Welt . He later worked as a screenwriter for DEFA . He lived in the West Berlin district of Wilmersdorf since the 1950s . After the wall was built on August 13, 1961, Stenbock-Fermor remained a member of the PEN Center East and West .
Most recently he worked on his autobiography, which at his death lasted until 1946 and was published in the GDR in 1974 in a version supplemented by Joachim Barckhausen for later years.
His grave was in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery. It was leveled in 2002 after the 30-year deadline.
In 2016, the publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg published its social study Germany from below. Travel through the proletarian province again.
Fonts
Books
- My experiences as a miner . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1928. New edition, with an afterword by Dirk Hallenberger, Verlag Henselowsky Boschmann, Bottrop 2017, ISBN 978-3-942094-76-4 .
- Germany from below. Travels through the proletarian provinces in 1930 . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1931. Verlag CJ Bucher, Lucerne and Frankfurt / M., 1980, ISBN 3-7658-0328-6
- Germany from below. Journey through the proletarian province 1930 . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1931. New edition, edited by Erhard Schütz and Christian Jäger, in Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945256-52-7 .
- Volunteer Stenbock. Report from the Baltic liberation struggle . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1929
- The house of Captain von Messer . Plaut, Wuppertal-Barmen 1933
- Teerkuhlen Castle. A heathen story . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1942
- Henriette . Story, Deutscher Filmverlag, Berlin 1949
- Harald Poelchau : The last hours . Memories of a prison pastor, recorded by Count Alexander Stenbock-Fermor. Volk und Welt publishing house , Berlin 1949
- Rathenau's murder . TV film with H. Kamnitzer. Henschel, Berlin 1962
- The red count. Autobiography . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1973
Scripts
- Morgenrot pit . Film by Joachim Barckhausen and Alexander Stenbock-Fermor. Based on an idea by Joachim Barckhausen. Directed by Wolfgang Schleif and Erich Freund, production management Adolf Hannemann, Potsdam 1948
- Semmelweis - savior of mothers . Film with Joachim Barckhausen, Deutscher Filmverlag, Berlin 1950
- Career in Paris . Based on motifs by Honoré de Balzac . Screenplay: Joachim Barckhausen, Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor. Camera: Fritz Lehmann. Music: Ernst Roters. Actors: Ernst Legal, Joachim Hildebrandt, Willy A. Kleinau, Directors: Georg C. Klaren, Hans-Georg Rudolph. DEFA, Berlin 1952
- The girl with the sulfur sticks (1953)
- The Miss von Scuderi . Screenplay Joachim Barckhausen; Alexander Stenbock-Fermor. Based on an amendment by ETA Hoffmann . Cinematography by Eugen Klagemann. Buildings by Erich Zander. Music Walter Sieber. Actors: Henny Porten; Willy A. Kleinau; Anne Vernon; Roland Alexandre; Angelika Hauff. Directed by Eugen York, DEFA, Berlin 1955
- The silent star (Original: Milczaca gwiazda ) (1960)
literature
- Stenbock-Fermor, Count Alexander. In: Lexicon of socialist German literature. From the beginnings to 1945. Monographic and bibliographic descriptions. 2nd edition, unchanged reprint of the 1st edition. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1964, pp. 476–477.
- Detlef Kühn : Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor and Bernt von Kügelgen: two Baltic German 'leftists'. In: Michael Garleff (Ed.): Baltic German, Weimar Republic and Third Reich (= The Baltic States in Past and Present. Vol. 1, 2). Volume 2. Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-12299-7 , p. 227 ff.
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1240-1242 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature on Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor in the state bibliography MV
- Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods: Livonia, 1935
- Short biography of Valentin Tschepego (Institute for Syndicalism Research)
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stenbock-Fermor, Alexander Graf . reyntjes.de. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
- ↑ Nikolaus Brauns: “Create Red Aid!” History and activities of the proletarian aid organization for political prisoners in Germany (1919–1938) . Verlag Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-89144-297-1 , p. 159.
- ↑ Stenbock-Fermor, Alexander Graf . reyntjes.de. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stenbock-Fermor, Alexander Graf |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lorenz, Peter (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and resistance fighter in the time of National Socialism |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1902 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nitau Castle |
DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1972 |
Place of death | West Berlin |