Edgar Hahnewald

Edgar William Hahnewald (born August 21, 1884 in Wilschdorf ; † January 6, 1961 in Solna , Sweden) was a German writer , editor and illustrator . He also published under the pseudonym Manfred .

Live and act

Hahnewald was the child of an accountant and grew up in a family of seven. First of all, he learned the profession of a decorative painter .

His journalistic career began in Gera . In 1908 he worked as an editor of the "Reussische Tribüne" in Gera and became a member of the SPD . Here he also became the mentor of the younger journalist Erich Knauf .

From 1912 he was local editor of the Dresdner Volkszeitung . He stayed that way with interruptions during his time as a soldier until 1933, when he had to leave the newspaper, town and home. During this time in Dresden he was also chairman of the Volksbühne and Volkshochschule and a member of the workers' education committee.

On March 18, 1933, he emigrated to the ČSR as a politically persecuted person , was editor of the “Social Democrat” in Prague and a permanent employee of various newspapers.

In 1938 he fled to Sweden. In January 1943 he was elected to the board of the SPD local group in Stockholm . In July 1943 he resigned because of contacts with the Socialist Workers' Party in Germany . He illustrated scientific books for Swedish publishers, especially books on zoology and botany. He did not return to Germany in 1945, it would be, as he wrote to his daughter, the "reunion with a mutilated love" when he thinks of the destroyed Dresden. In 1961 Edgar Hahnewald died in Solna, Sweden.

Works (selection)

Debris. Stories, Kaden, Dresden 1916
Summer days. Dresden 1919
The green film: a hiking book. Kaden, Dresden 1920
Saxon landscapes. (= Heimatbücherei der Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz. Volume 3), Dresden 1922
The trip to Sylt: a trip to the Elbe. Schünemann, Bremen 1924
The old Dresden Jewish cemetery. In: Yearbook of the Saxon Youth. Kaden, Dresden 1926, pp. 161–175
German landscapes and cities. Callwey, Munich 1926
In passing. 1926
Between the Saale and the Spree. Dresden 1929
Saxon homeland images. FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1989 ISBN 3-325-00246-3
Saxon beauty: between Kammweg and central Saxony. Mironde-Verlag, Niederfrohna 2010, ISBN 978-3-937654-41-6

literature

Hahnewald, Edgar Wilhelm. In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Nekrolog 1936-1970. Saur, Munich 1973, DNB 740107917 , p. 237.
Hahnewald, Edgar Wilhelm. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933. Volume 1. Saur, Munich 1980, DNB 801115787 , p. 265.

Swen Steinberg: "Karl Herschowitz is coming home." The writer-journalist Edgar Hahnewald between Saxon identity and his homeland in exile. With a critical edition. Metropol, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86331-294-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Hahnewald, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer, editor and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wilschdorf
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 1961
Place of death	Solna , Sweden