Arnold Bauer

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Arnold Johannes Bauer (born November 16, 1909 in Berlin , † September 2, 2006 there ) was a German writer and a resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

During the Weimar Republic, the homosexual farmer moved around Klaus Mann , Adolf Brand , Ludwig Renn and Magnus Hirschfeld . After graduating from the Karl-Marx-Schule in Berlin-Neukölln, Bauer was active in a socialist student group that was close to the KPD. At the beginning of the 1930s, the student group established contacts with national revolutionary circles around Harro Schulze-Boysen and with the magazine Der gegen , which was considered a platform for a “national communism”.

During the Nazi era, too, Bauer met with Harro Schulze-Boysen, who initiated the Red Orchestra's resistance movement . Bauer was arrested in connection with the Gestapo investigations against members of the Red Orchestra, but was released again because he - even according to his own statements - did not belong to the inner circle of Schulze-Boysen. At that time, Bauer was friends with the graphic artist, actor and resistance fighter Werner Dissel . During the Nazi era, Bauer was imprisoned for a total of 15 months. As a member of the Wehrmacht, he worked in the Army Archives in Berlin-Wannsee. He experienced the end of the war as a soldier in the Berlin-Spandau fortress.

In the post-war period, Bauer worked as a freelance writer in West Berlin. It began with a literary work on Thomas Mann and became known to a wider public through the novel Childhood in Twilight . From 1949 he worked as a journalist, including for the Neue Zeitung and the Berliner Morgenpost . Literary portraits followed from 1967 about Käthe Kollwitz , Stefan Zweig , Rudolf Virchow , Carl Zuckmayer and Rainer Maria Rilke . Daniel remained unpublished in the den of lions. A time novel from the years 1925–1945 , on which the author was already working in 1947.

Arnold Bauer's grave in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Arnold Bauer died in Berlin at the beginning of September 2006 at the age of 96. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 10-D-17).

Works (selection)

  • Thomas Mann and the crisis of bourgeois culture . Publishing house of the German Book Distribution and Publishing Company, Berlin 1946.
  • Childhood in Twilight . Heinz Ullstein / Helmut Kindler / FUK Verlag, Berlin 1947.
  • Stefan Zweig . Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1960 (7th revised edition 1996).
  • Rudolf Virchow - the political doctor . Stapp, Berlin 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Lehmann (ed.); Central research center of the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime VVN (ed.): Resistance group Schulze-Boysen / Harnack. VVN publishing house. Berlin 1948. pp. 18, 28.
  2. ^ Jochen Schmidt: Arnold Johannes Bauer (obituary). In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 17, 2006. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 483.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Arnold Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 2006
Place of death Berlin