Egon Larsen

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Egon Larsen (born Egon Lehrburger, July 13, 1904 in Munich ; died October 17, 1990 in London ) was a German-British journalist and writer .

Life

Egon Lehrburger worked as the Berlin correspondent of the Munich publishing house Knorr & Hirth for the newspaper Münchner Latest Nachrichten from 1928 . From 1929 he also wrote for the Berliner Tageblatt . Lehrburger was initially married to Helene Boetz, who later became a concentration camp prisoner as Helene Hünecke-Lolf in the Moringen concentration camp . In his second marriage, he was married to Ursula Lippmann, who translated the second volume of Pooh the Bear into German. His son Peter went to Israel as a photographer .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Lehrburger was banned from working and fled to France. In other European countries he still had a job for the New York Times picture service. From 1935 he lived as a journalist in Prague . After the Munich Agreement in 1938, he emigrated to London and changed his name.

Larsen was involved in the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain , for whose cultural program he wrote cabaret texts with Fritz Gottfurcht . In 1940 Agnes Bernelle performed his song The Cosmopolitan and The Twenty Years Old on the Little Stage in London , the music was written by Allan Gray . Annemarie Hase sang Die Lorelei there . Hase and Mowgli Sussmann recited the Why Song and The Clairvoyant in Cabaret 24 Black Sheep .

During the war he worked for the German-language program of the BBC and the soldier broadcaster Calais .

After the war, Larsen wrote for various newspapers and magazines, including the Süddeutsche Zeitung . From 1954 he was the London correspondent of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation , for which he also produced contributions for the school radio between 1968 and 1984 .

Larsen wrote popular science non-fiction books on a wide variety of subjects, including the history of technology , a story from Amnesty International , a biography of Count Rumford . He wrote the German translations himself. In the introduction to Atoms and Atomic Energy he wrote: This book will introduce the very young would-be scientist to an exciting field of modern knowledge, His memories appeared under the title Weimar Eyewitness (German Die Weimarer Republik ).

Larsen was a member of the German PEN Club in Exile and the Society of Authors . In 1945 he became a member of the Labor Party . In 1963 he received the Rudolf Diesel Medal .

Fonts (selection)

Dalton's List of Items. As an illustration in Atoms and Atomic Energy (1963, 1974)
Little history of technology for the youth
Superstitious farmers thought the first hydrogen balloon, which rose in Paris in 1783 and landed in a village, was the work of the devil and destroyed the shell ( Brief history of technology for the youth , after p. 96, contemporary print)
X-ray screening of a patient in 1904 ( Brief history of technology for young people , based on p. 176; unknown photographer)
  • as Roger G. Helburne: Chase across Europe. Longmans, Green and Co., London 1941.
  • Inventors' Cavalcade . London: Lindsay Drummond, 1943.
    • Adventure around steam and iron . German youth books. Berlin: Dreßler, 1954.
    • Thinking steel . German youth books. Berlin: Dreßler, 1954.
  • Inventors' scrapbook . Book cover John Heartfield . London: Lindsay Drummond, 1947.
    • Inventions and no end . Berlin: Dressler, 1953.
    • The artificial eye . Berlin: Dressler, 1954.
  • Erich Simm ; Egon Larsen: The patience of the poor or the vicious life and the blasphemous ballads of François Villon: A piece in 2 parts (10 scenes) . Music v. Theo Mackeben . Berlin-Charlottenburg, Waitzstr. 15: Schiermeyer, 1948.
  • Adventure of Technology: A Book of Inventors and Inventions . Berlin: Dressler, 1949.
  • Spotlight on films a primer for film lovers . Foreword by Michael Balcon . London: Parrish, 1950.
  • Men Who Changed The World. Stories of Invention and Discovery (1952).
    • Twelve that changed the world: Werk u. Fate of great inventors . Ebenhausen b. Munich: Langewiesche-Brandt, 1954.
  • Men Under the Sea (1955).
    • Humans and Depths of the Sea: The Adventurous History of Underwater Research . Ebenhausen b. Munich: Langewiesche-Brandt, 1957.
  • London . Munich-Buchenhain: People and Homeland, 1957.
  • You'll See: Report from the Future (1957).
    • You will still see the future . Berlin-Schöneberg: Weiss, 1957.
  • Atomic Energy: A Layman's Guide to the Nuclear Age (1958).
    • Atoms form a new world: atomic primer for everyone . Munich: Braun & Schneider, 1959.
  • Rebels for freedom . Berlin: Dressler, 1958.
  • Ideas and Invention (1960).
  • Little history of technology for the youth . Berlin: Weiss, 1961 (Wiesbaden: Panorama, 1984).
  • Vivian Fuchs: Conqueror of the Antarctic . Munich: List, 1961.
  • Count Rumford: An American in Munich . Munich: Prestel, 1961.
  • The Cavendish Laboratory: Nursery of Genius (1962).
  • Atoms and Atomic Energy . Illustrations Bernard Lodge. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963.
    • The secret of the atoms . Berlin: Dressler, 1962.
  • Men Who Fought for Freedom (1963).
    • Rebels for Freedom: From William Penn to Gandhi. The fate of famous freedom fighters . Frankfurt a. M .: Gutenberg Book Guild, 1963
  • Inventors (1965).
    • Adventure of technology: a book v. Inventors u. Inventions . Gütersloh: Bertelsmann-Lesering, 1967.
  • The Deceivers: Lives of the Great Imposters (1966)
    • Impostor: The elite of the crook world . Berlin-Schöneberg: Weiss, 1966.
  • Great Humorous Stories of the World (1967).
  • First with the Truth: Newspapermen in Action (1968).
    • The newspaper brings it to light . Stuttgart: Goverts, 1970.
  • A History of Inventions (1969).
  • Great Ideas in Engineering (1970).
  • Strange Sects and Cults: A Study of Their Origins and Influence (1972).
  • Weimar Eyewitness (1976).
    • The Weimar Republic: an eyewitness reports . Munich: Heyne, 1980.
  • New Sources of Energy and Power (1976).
  • Food. Past, Present and Future . Illustrations David Armitage. London: Frederick Muller, 1977.
  • Telecommunications: A History . Illustrations by Peter Bridgewater. London: Frederick Muller, 1977.
  • A Flame in Barbed Wire: The Story of Amnesty International . London, 1978.
    • Amnesty International: in the name of human rights. The story of Amnesty International . Foreword by Peter Benenson . Munich: Kindler, 1983.
  • Wit as a Weapon: The Political Joke in History (1980).
  • with Ota Filip : The Broken Pen: Writers in Exile . With assistance from Günter W. Lorenz. Stuttgart: Thienemann, 1984.
  • (Ed.): "And yet I like life". Clara Grunwald's letters. Mannheim 1985.
  • The world of Gabriele Tergit: from the life of an eternally young Berliner . Munich: Auerbach, 1987.
  • with John Cabot; Sebastian Cabot (Ed.): The discovery of North America in 1497 and the expeditions to South America and the Northern Arctic Ocean; ed. based on old sources . Stuttgart: Thienemann, Edition Erdmann. 1985

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helene Hünecke-Lolf , at DNB
  2. ^ Gabriele Tergit : The Exile Situation in England. In: Manfred Durzak (Hrsg.): The German exile literature. 1933-1945. Reclam, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-15-010225-1 , p. 142.
  3. ^ Egon Larsen: German Theater in London 1933-1945. An unknown chapter in cultural history. In: Deutsche Rundschau , 83 (1957), pp. 378-383.
  4. ↑ Volker Kühn (Ed.): Germany's Awakening: Cabaret under the swastika; 1933-1945. Volume 3. Quadriga, Weinheim 1989 ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 200, p. 352.
  5. ↑ Reinhard Hippen : Satire against Hitler. Cabaret in exile. pendo, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-85842-201-0 , pp. 120f; P. 112 f.
  6. ^ Egon Larsen: Atoms and Atomic Energy. 1974, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Larsen, Egon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egon Lehrburger; (Pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1990
Place of death London