Franz Carl Weiskopf

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Gotthold Gloger in conversation with Franz Carl Weiskopf and Alex Wedding at the conference of young authors in Leipzig, March 8, 1954.
Bust of FC Weiskopf above the grave slab

Franz Carl Weiskopf ( pseudonyms : Petr Buk , Pierre Buk , FWL Kovacs , born April 3, 1900 in Prague ; died September 14, 1955 in Berlin ) was a German-speaking writer; mostly only known as FC Weiskopf .

Life

Franz Carl Weiskopf was the son of a Jewish-German bank employee and a Czech mother. He attended German-language schools in Prague and from 1919 to 1923 studied German and history at the university in his hometown. In 1923 he received his doctorate in philosophy . After joining the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1921 , he traveled to the Soviet Union for the first time in 1926 . In 1928 he moved to Berlin, where he became editor of the feature pages of the newspaper Berlin am Morgen . In the same year he married Grete Bernheim , who later became known under the pseudonym Alex Wedding . He became a member of the League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers and took part in 1930 with Anna Seghers at a conference of revolutionary writers in Kharkov in the Soviet Union.

After the National Socialists came to power , Weiskopf returned to Prague in 1933, where he became editor-in-chief of the anti-fascist Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ). When the newspaper had to cease its publication in October 1938, Weiskopf fled to Paris. From there he managed to flee further to the USA in April 1939 with the help of the League of American Writers . He spent the war years in New York .

After the end of the Second World War , Weiskopf worked in the diplomatic service of Czechoslovakia , initially as counselor in Washington, DC , in 1949/50 as envoy in Stockholm and from 1950 to 1952 as ambassador in Beijing . In 1952 he returned to Prague, but in 1953 he moved to East Berlin . In the last years of his life he was a board member of the Writers' Association of the GDR and, together with Willi Bredel, published the magazine neue deutsche literature . He was a member of the PEN

FC Weiskopf's work consists of novels, stories, reports, anecdotes, poetry and essays. His narrative works, which are always realistic and stylistically far above the average of other authors of socialist realism , are mostly set in the middle classes of Czechoslovakia and depict the path of solidarity between citizens and workers since the First World War .

His wife initiated a prize named after Weiskopf , which has been awarded since 1956 for special services to preserving the German language ("language critical" and "language reflective").

Grete and Franz Carl Weiskopf are buried in a shared grave complex in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin.

Works

  • There's a drum , Berlin-Schöneberg 1923
  • The escape to France , Vienna [among others] 1926
  • Change to the 21st century , Berlin 1927
  • Those who have no choice are spoiled for choice , Berlin 1928
  • The dream of the hairdresser Cimbura , Berlin 1930
  • The state without the unemployed , Berlin 1931 (together with Ernst Glaeser and Alfred Kurella )
  • The Slav song , Berlin 1931
  • Future in the shell , Berlin 1932
  • The stronger ones , Moscow [among others] 1934
  • Die Temptation , Zurich 1937 (1954 under the title Lissy or The Temptation )
  • La tragédie tchécoslavaque , Paris 1939 (under the name Pierre Buk)
  • The untamed Balkans , New York 1941 (under the name Frederic WL Kovacs)
  • A New Day Ago , Mexico 1944
  • Ascension Command , Stockholm 1945
  • The Invincibles , New York 1945
  • Under strange skies , Berlin 1948; NA: Under Strange Skies, an outline of German literature in exile 1933 - 1947; with an appendix of text samples from works by exiled writers , afterword by Irmfried Hiebel, annotated list of authors by Wulf Kirsten. Structure, Berlin 1981, DNB 810886715 .
  • Farewell to peace , Berlin 1950
  • The misery and greatness of our days , Berlin 1950
  • The distant sound , Berlin 1950
  • People, cities and years , Vienna 1950
  • Children of their time , Berlin 1951
  • The trip to Canton , Berlin 1953
  • The book of anecdotes , Berlin 1954
  • From all four winds , Berlin 1954
  • Defense of the German language , Berlin 1955
  • Literary forays , Berlin 1956
  • Collected works , Berlin
    • Vol. 1. Farewell to Peace , 1960 (published by Dietz Verlag in 1950)
    • Vol. 2. In the middle of the stream. World in labor , 1960
    • Vol. 3. The Slav song. Before a new day , 1960
    • Vol. 4. Lissy. Suicide Squad , 1960
    • Vol. 5. Poems and Adaptations , 1960
    • Vol. 6. Anecdotes and Stories , 1960
    • Vol. 7. Reports , 1960
    • Vol. 8. On literature and language. Defense of the German language , 1960
  • Correspondence 1942 - 1948 , Berlin [including] 1990 (with Bodo Uhse )

Editing

  • January days , Prague-Karlin 1926
  • Denise Leblond-Zola: Zola - his life, his work, his struggle , Berlin 1932
  • Hundred towers , an anthology of Czech and Slovak poetry, New York 1945
  • Kisch calendar , Berlin 1955

Translations

  • Czech songs , Berlin 1925
  • The heart-a shield , London 1937
  • Song of the Yellow Earth , Berlin 1951
  • Chien Tien: Des Tien Tschien song from the cart , Berlin 1953
  • Max Švabinský : Butterfly Time , Prague 1954

Film adaptations

literature

  • Franziska Arndt: Preliminary bibliography of literary works by and about FC Weiskopf (1900–1955) , Berlin 1958 (together with Achim Roscher)
  • Marianne Angermüller: Preliminary finding aid for the literary estate of FC Weiskopf (1900–1955) , Berlin
    • Vol. 1. Documents from the literary activities of FC Weiskopf , 1958
  • Grete Weiskopf (Ed.): Memories of a Friend , Berlin 1963
  • Weiskopf, Franz Carl . In: Lexicon of socialist German literature . Leipzig 1964, pp. 537-540 with bibliography, p. 540.
  • Franziska Arndt: FC Weiskopf , Leipzig 1965
  • Ludvík Václavek: FC Weiskopf and Czechoslovakia (= Acta universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis , Volume 25: Facultas philosophica: Philologica , Volume 12), Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, Praha 1965, DNB 455200653 .
  • Irmfried Hiebel: The literary views of Franz Carl Weiskopf: Contributions to a Weiskopf picture , Leipzig 1970, DNB 482012862 (Dissertation University of Leipzig, Section Cultural Studies and German Studies, July 8, 1970, 444 pages).
  • Irmfried Hiebel: FC Weiskopf, writer and critic (= contributions to the history of German socialist literature in the 20th century , volume 5), Aufbau, Berlin [among others] 1973, DNB 740109049 .
  • Petra Gallmeister: The historical novels by FC Weiskopf "Farewell to Peace" and "In the Middle of the Stream" (= European University Writings , Series 1, German Language and Literature , Volume 622), Lang, Frankfurt am Main [among others] 1983, ISBN 3- 8204-7320-3 (Dissertation, Wuppertal University, 1982, 232 pages).
  • Volker Haase: "If you don't want to eradicate or castrate 70 million ...". A contribution to FC Weiskopf's ideas about Germany policy in exile. In: Literary and political concepts of Germany 1938–1949 . Contribution to a conference of the German Literature Archive in Marbach and the Evangelical Academy Tutzing in connection with the Arno Schmidt Foundation and the Carl Zuckmayer Society. Edited by Gunther Nickel, Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, pp. 239-269, ISBN 978-3-89244-721-4 .
  • Volker Weidermann : The book of burned books . Cologne: Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008; ISBN 978-3-462-03962-7 (on Weiskopf, pages 55/57).
  • Jürgen Kaulfuss, Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Weiskopf, FC (Franz Carl) . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Christiane Zehl Romero: Franz Carl Weiskopf , in: John M. Spalek , Konrad Feilchenfeldt , Sandra H. Hawrylchak (eds.): German-language exile literature since 1933. Volume 3. USA: Part 5 . Bern: KG Saur, 2005 ISBN 3-908255-42-2 , pp. 240-270

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SURNAME Weiskopf, Franz Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buk, Petr (pseudonym); Buk, Pierre (pseudonym); Kovacs, FWL (pseudonym); Weiskopf, FC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1955
Place of death Berlin