Franz Krey

Franz Krey (born on January 4, 1904 in Essen ; died on January 24, 1997 there ) was a German working-class writer.

Life

Franz Krey was born into a family of steel smelters. He attended an elementary school in Essen and then began an apprenticeship in a Krupp drawing office . He did not finish his apprenticeship because the management fired him. He carried out various activities, including a. Tugs underground, hostel maintenance, auxiliary fitters and hammer in a coal mine. Because of frequent unemployment he went on a hike. Due to lack of money, he broke off an apprenticeship at a mechanical engineering school. In 1925 he became a member of the KPD .

He published sketches, short stories, poems and narratives in Ruhrecho. Organ of the KPD Ruhr area and in the Red Flag . He described himself as "a poet out of unemployment". For a time he headed the "Westphalian Echo". He was a member of the Association of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers in Germany .

His only published novel Maria and the Paragraph. A novel to § 218 described the gray harbor impact of § 218 to destitute workers women quacks were driven into his hands. Friedrich Wolf wrote about the value of the novel that it shows a world of experience "which no mere writer can have".

In 1934, Krey was arrested for illegal resistance work as part of a large wave of arrests.

Franz Krey died in Essen on January 24, 1997.

Works

• The putt . In: The cultural will . 1929.
• Maria and the paragraph. A novel about § 218 . 1st - 25th thousand Internationaler Arbeiter-Verlag, Vienna, Berlin, Zurich 1931. (= Der Rote 1-Mark-Roman 5)
  • Maria and the paragraph. A novel about § 218 . 25–35 thousand Internationaler Arbeiter-Verlag, Vienna, Berlin, Zurich 1931. (= Der Rote 1-Mark-Roman 5)
  • Mary and Paragraph 218 . New Course Publishing House, Berlin 1972 (= comrades of Revolution 1)

literature

• Krey, Franz In: Lexicon of socialist German literature. From the beginning until 1945. Monographic-biographical accounts . Verlag Sprache und Literatur, Halle (Saale) 1963, pp. 298–299 as well as pp. 56 and 427.
• Krey, Franz . In: Proletarian-Revolutionary Literature 1918 to 1933. An outline . People and knowledge, Berlin 1970, p. 323. (= contemporary writers. 9).
• Simone Barck : Krey, Franz. In: Dies. (Ed.): Lexicon of socialist literature. Their history in Germany until 1945. Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 978-3-476-01237-1 , p. 263.
• Dirk Hallenberger: Always on the side of the oppressed. On the death of the writer Franz Krey (1904–1997) from Essen . In: Yearbook Ruhr Area . Klartext Verlag, Essen 1997, pp. 578-580.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 6, Kraatz - Menges. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25036-1 , page 64. Digitalisat
• Jasmin Grande (Ed.): Fritz Hüser 1908–1979. Letters on behalf of the Fritz Hüser Society. Assoverlag, Oberhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938834-39-8 .

Web links

• Franz Krey Maria and the paragraph
• Arrest of functionaries of the KPD in the Lower and Middle Rhine area and in the Ruhr area, u. a. Franz Krey Franz Krey  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lexicon of Socialist German Literature , p. 299.
2. ^ Lexicon of socialist German literature , p. 298.