Alexander Count Stenbock-Fermor

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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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stenbock-Fermor, Alexander Graf . reyntjes.de. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Stenbock-Fermor, Alexander Graf . reyntjes.de. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
personal data
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