Erich Kühn (writer, 1887)

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Erich Kühn (born August 23, 1887 in Dresden , † March 5, 1953 in Hamburg ) was a German writer , journalist , theater man and politician .

Life

Erich Kühn was born into a middle-class Catholic family in Dresden and grew up there.

He began his professional career in Berlin as a journalist, among others for the Vossische Zeitung , where he wrote for the feature section . Even before the First World War , his work area expanded to Hamburg , where his new home was from 1920.

In 1921 Kühn married Margarethe Schärf in Berlin, who gave birth to six children. In addition to his regular articles in the Vossische Zeitung, he now worked continuously in the Hamburg Correspondents .

In addition to his journalistic activities, Kühn had a particular fondness for the theater . He wrote Christmas tales and in 1932 became commercial director of the Thalia Theater under the direction of Erich Ziegel . When Ziegel emigrated to Vienna in 1933 because of his Jewish origins, Erich Kühn and Paul Mundorf succeeded him as business director of the Thalia Theater. He held this position until 1936.

In 1935 Kühn was banned from working / writing by the National Socialists , but thanks to the help of friends he was able to remain incognito professionally as an editor of the Oldesloer Zeitung from 1935 to 1945 . Kühn also helped politically persecuted people. He and his family hid a Jewish former judge and his wife during the Nazi era.

During the war and afterwards until his death, Kühn worked as a freelance writer (novels, stories, short stories and poems) and continued to work as a journalist - arts section - among others for the Hamburger Anzeiger , after the war also for the new Norddeutscher Rundfunk and again for the Thalia Theater with constantly new Christmas fairy tales and adaptations of older models.

Kühn and 28 other people founded the CDP, the Christian Democratic Party, on October 1, 1945 . This CDP formed the basis for the CDU in Hamburg that was formed in 1946.

Kühn did not seek a career in what would later become the Bundestag, but instead remained as a local politician in the Hamburg-Nord district committee , to which he was elected third in the list of the Father City Association of Hamburg in 1949, and in the Fuhlsbüttler local committee. He was also the local chairman of the CDU in Fuhlsbüttel from 1948 until his death. After his death, his wife Margarethe continued his work. The Kühn Bridge over the Alster in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf is named after Kühn .

Works

  • Herman Reichenbach, biographical study, Drei Masken Verlag Berlin, 1924
  • Man I, fragment of a life, Robert Mölig Verlag, Hamburg, 1947
  • Haenlein the other, novel, Hans Koehler Verlag, Hamburg, 1947
  • The golden bowl, novel, Robert Mölig Verlag, Hamburg, 1948
  • Stars, Bread and Stones, Roman, Hans Koehler Verlag, Hamburg, 1950
  • The hammer throw, novel, Hans Köhler Verlag, Hamburg, 1947
  • Little Federspiel, poems, Hans Koehler Verlag, Hamburg, 1948
  • The girl Esther, Koehler Verlag, Hamburg
  • The pendulum swings
  • Eva in red, a comedy
  • He or she, a comedy
  • But your highness, comedy
  • Love leader, comedy
  • Gruschke, comedy
  • Cinderella (fairy tale game) ,
  • Hansel and Gretel (fairy tale game) ,
  • And many other pieces, short stories, short stories, novellas

source

  • Klaus Timm: Erich Kühn - Stories from Klein-Borstel Volume 18, Hamburg, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festschrift "65 years CDU district association Hamburg-Nord", Soeth-Verlag, Glinde 2015, page 11.
personal data
SURNAME Bold, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer , journalist , theater man and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1953
Place of death Hamburg