Benno Voelkner

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Benno Gustav Voelkner (born September 3, 1900 in Ohra , Danzig , † January 21, 1974 in Schwerin ) was a German writer .

Life

Benno Voelkner was the son of a painter who was active in the SPD and in trade unions. His sister was the communist resistance fighter Käte Voelkner . After attending primary school , Voelkner trained as a plumber. From 1917 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . Then worked as a miner in the Ruhr area. In 1920 he took part in the suppression of the Kapp Putsch as a member of the “Karl Liebknecht” workers' battalion . Voelkner was sentenced to eight years in prison, but escaped serving this sentence by fleeing to the Free State of Gdansk . Since he did not receive a residence permit there, he led an unsteady wandering life in the following years. He kept u. a. in Scandinavia, the Netherlands and from 1927 to 1929 in the United States. After his sentence was lifted as part of an amnesty , he returned to Gdansk and worked there as a painter and driver. Here he also made his first attempts at writing.

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " Voelkner, who by then belonged to the KPD , was active in the resistance . At the same time he became a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer , which enabled him to publish his first books in the National Socialist German Reich. From 1939 Voelkner was a member of the NSDAP .

In the final phase of the Second World War , Voelkner led a refugee campaign from Danzig to Mecklenburg in 1945 . He became a member of the KPD again and was mayor of the Mecklenburg community of Krakow am See . After the forced unification of the SPD and KPD in the Soviet occupation zone in 1946, Voelkner was district secretary of the SED on Rügen , and from 1949 to 1950 he was a member of the HO state leadership of the state of Mecklenburg. From 1950 he lived as a freelance writer in Schwerin. From 1962 to 1967 he was a member of the SED district leadership in Schwerin.

Benno Voelkner was the author of novels and short stories, which are mainly settled in the village milieu of Mecklenburg and describe, among other things, problems of the integration of displaced persons into GDR society ( the days are getting brighter ) and the land reform ( the people of Karvenbruch ).

Benno Voelkner was a member of the GDR Writers' Association .

Awards

Works

  • Life for life , Leipzig 1938
  • The three righteous , Leipzig 1939
  • The blue diamond , Leipzig 1940
  • The secret of the negro , Leipzig 1940
  • Jacob Ow , Schwerin 1951
  • The days are getting lighter , Schwerin 1952
  • Zinneck and Lulu , Schwerin 1954
  • The people of Karvenbruch , Schwerin 1955
  • The love of Gerda Hellstedt , Berlin 1957
  • The valley of the angry brook , Berlin 1957
  • The farmers of Karvenbruch , Berlin 1959
  • The farmers and the gentlemen of Oertzen , Schwerin 1960
  • The shame , Rostock 1965

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Year of death after Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR , p. 350.
  2. ^ SVZ: Farewell to Benno Voelkner . In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . January 27, 1974, p. 1 f .
  3. ↑ Investigative Committee of Freedom Jurists (ed.): Former National Socialists in Pankow's service . Third supplemented edition / edition. Berlin-Zehlendorf 1950, p. 59 .
  4. ↑ EB / cm: An evening in memory of Voelkner . In: Nordkurier , September 3, 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Voelkner, Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voelkner Benno Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1974
Place of death Schwerin