Alfred Hein (writer)

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Alfred Hein ( pseudonym : Julius Beuthen , born October 7, 1894 in Beuthen / Upper Silesia , † December 30, 1945 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German writer.

Life

Alfred Hein was the son of an elementary school teacher. He grew up in Upper Silesia and showed early musical and literary talent; its first publication took place in 1906 in Westermanns monthly notebooks . Hein took part in the First World War as a volunteer . He belonged to a field airship unit; later he was a reporter to infantry units on the Western Front and took part in the Battle of Verdun in 1916 . In the same year his poem One Company Soldiers appeared in the Liller Frontzeitung , which was widely used as a marching song.

After the end of the First World War, Alfred Hein was a theater critic on the editorial board of the Hartungschen Zeitung in Königsberg . From 1923 to 1930 he headed the state department of the Reich Central Office for Homeland Service there . From 1930 Alfred Hein lived as a freelance writer in Berlin .

From 1943 on, Alfred Hein took part in the Second World War in the rank of NCO . After the last fighting of his unit in Upper Silesia , he was taken prisoner by the Soviets on May 8, 1945 and was taken to eastern Ukraine to do forced labor . There he fell so seriously ill that he was transported back home in October 1945. After recovering from time to time, he fell ill again in mid-December 1945 and was admitted to a hospital for returnees in Halle (Saale) , where he died two weeks later.

Alfred Hein's literary work includes novels, short stories, books for children and young people, essays, poems and radio plays. Many of his prose works are influenced by the experience of the First World War; in his poems he often used a folksong tone.

Hein's literary estate was looked after by his long-time partner Annke-Margarethe Knauer and is now in the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar .

Works

  • Collecting drum , Berlin 1917
  • The Terzinen to the dead Isot , Berlin 1918
  • The Songs of Peace , Weimar 1919
  • The unsaved , Stettin 1919
  • The Peace of the Linden Tree , Stettin 1920
  • Death ... , Szczecin 1920
  • The Frauenburger Reise , Dresden [u. a.] 1921
  • Kurts painter , Freiburg i. B. 1922
  • Immanuel Kant and Königsberg in his time , Berlin 1924 (together with Albert Goedeckemeyer and KH Clasen)
  • New poems , Berlin 1924
  • Pan and Elysia , Königsberg / Pr. 1925
  • Upper Silesia , Leipzig 1926 (together with Wilhelm Müller-Rüdersdorf)
  • A company of soldiers , Minden iW 1929
  • Annke , Stuttgart 1931
  • The storming of the "dead man" on May 20, 1916 , Langensalza [u. a.] 1932
  • The meaning of the war experience , Stuttgart 1932
  • The old man from the Prussian Forest , Langensalza [u. a.] 1933
  • Stormtroop Brooks , Leipzig 1933
  • Over shattered bridges - forward! , Langensalza [u. a.] 1933
  • Gloria! Victoria! , Langensalza [u. a.] 1934
  • The little book of the Great War , Langensalza [u. a.] 1934
  • Fridericus and my ancestor , Langensalza [u. a.] 1936
  • The drummer hits the parade! , Hall 1936
  • Beacon over Prussia , Langensalza [u. a.] 1937
  • Attack, grenadiers! , Berlin 1939
  • Beates father , Leipzig 1940
  • Little stories from great people , Stuttgart 1940
  • One devil , Berlin 1940
  • General Rössel intervenes , Berlin 1941
  • The master violin , Berlin 1941
  • Chess the Sun King , Berlin 1941
  • Holiday trip in love , Magdeburg 1941
  • You yourself are music , Berlin 1942
  • Höhe 304 , Leipzig 1942
  • 's Nannerl , Berlin 1942
  • Paul rescues the displaced , Berlin 1942
  • The sorcerer's apprentice , Berlin 1942
  • Seydlitz , Berlin 1943
  • Susanne and Jucunda , Magdeburg [a. a.] 1943
  • Calm blood, Gustav! and other stories , Berlin 1944
  • Home music , Augsburg 1968
  • Under the stars , Darmstadt 1969
  • At home in Upper Silesia , Dülmen / Westphalia 1982
  • The blue bird , Dülmen / Westf. 1984
  • Delta of Life , Dülmen 1984

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personal data
SURNAME Hein, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beuthen, Julius (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Beuthen , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1945
Place of death Halle (Saale)