Bruno Vogel

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Bruno Vogel (born September 29, 1898 in Leipzig , † April 5, 1987 in London ) was a German writer.

Life

In 1916 Vogel volunteered as a war volunteer . After the end of the war he returned to Leipzig. In 1923 his first article appeared in the Leipziger Volkszeitung . From this time on, he wrote mostly glosses for various newspapers and magazines, including in reflection and departure . In 1925, Vogels Es lebe der Krieg appeared, the first German anti-war book. In 1926 he founded the Revolutionary Pacifists group together with Kurt Hiller . In 1929 he was elected as an assessor to the board of the Scientific and Humanitarian Committee . In 1931 he emigrated to Austria. Just two years later, in 1933, he left Austria via Switzerland and France for Norway . From there he went to South Africa in 1937 . In 1952 he returned to Europe from South Africa and lived in London until his death in 1987. He could no longer find publishers for his manuscripts Slegs vir Blankes (Afrikaans: Only for Whites , short stories) and Mashango (Roman), which were written in English from the 1950s onwards .

Long live the war!

The book Es lebe der Krieg! Published in 1924 by the Leipzig publishing house Die Wölfe ! was one of the first German anti-war books after the First World War. In the following year a lawsuit was brought against Vogel, his publisher and the illustrator of the book Rüdiger Berlit . The charges were blasphemy and disseminating lewd literature. Of the 5,000 copies of the first edition, none could be confiscated as all had already been sold. Of a second edition of 10,000 copies printed in 1925, only 2,000 were sold, the other 8,000 were confiscated. The trial ended in March 1929 with a conviction of the publisher and the ban on reprinting the offending chapters The Death of Private Müller III and Die ohne Zukunft .

Alf

Bruno Vogels Alf tells the story of two high school students in Wilhelminian Germany around 1915. Felix and Alf fall in love and discover their sexuality together, but the limits set by the church, school and the state destroy their brief happiness. Alf registers as a volunteer in the First World War and finds the "heroic death". Felix then promises his dead friend: "I want to fight against malice and stupidity, to help prevent other people, like the two of us, from having to go through such difficult things out of ignorance."

Alf is an anti-militaristic youth novel and a classic of homosexual emancipation literature with a special reception story. The first edition was published in 1929 by Asy-Verlag in Berlin and by the Guild of Freedom Book Friends . A second edition followed as early as 1931. In 1977 Alf was published again by Verlag Achenbach (Lollar an der Lahn), and in 2011 the Hamburg publisher Männerschwarm brought out the novel as volume 59 in its library rosa Winkel series , now in its fourth edition. An English translation was published in 1992 by Samuel B. Johnson at the London publisher GMP Publishers Ltd. submitted.

Works

  • Long live the war! Leipzig [1924].
  • A goulash and other sketches. Rudolstadt 1928.
  • Alf. Guild of Freedom Book Friends, Berlin 1929.
  • A young rebel: Stories and sketches from the Weimar Republic. Grandstand, Berlin 1986.

literature

  • Martin Baumeister: Aesthetics of Deterrence. The attempt at a pacifist representation of war - Bruno Vogel: Long live the war! A letter (1925). In: Amsterdam Contributions to Newer German Studies , Volume 53, pp. 165–180 ( books.google.de ).
  • Raimund Wolfert: Get to Know Bruno Vogel. In: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide. Volume 17, No. 1, 2010, pp. 29-31.
  • Raimund Wolfert: Nowhere at home. The eventful life of Bruno Vogel. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 5th 1987
Place of death London