Friedrich Strindberg
Friedrich Strindberg , also Friedrich Strindberg-Wedekind , pseudonym Fredrik Uhlson , (born August 21, 1897 , † March 30, 1978 in Italy ) was a Swedish-German journalist .
Life
Friedrich Strindberg was the son of Frank Wedekind and Frida Strindberg , at the time still wife of August Strindberg . He was accepted as a son by August Strindberg and grew up with his grandmother in Saxen . As an adult, he first lived in Vienna , where he married the playwright Maria Lazar in 1923 , but she separated from him again.
He and his wife hid Jews in his apartment.
In 1943 Strindberg moved to Sweden. August Strindberg's heirs tried to prevent this and wanted to revoke his Swedish citizenship. This might have ended fatally for Friedrich Strindberg, as his biological father was wrongly declared as a "mixed Jewish race" in Germany.
In 1949 Friedrich Strindberg settled in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1957 he was the editor-in-chief of Weltbild , and in 1961 of Quick . In 1972 he moved to Italy , where he died a few years later.
Strindberg, together with his second wife Utje , is posthumously honored in Sweden as Righteous Among the Nations . His name is also immortalized on the Yad Vashem memorial .
Works
Strindberg worked as a freelance journalist for the Ullstein publishing house and for various newspapers. During a trip to Abyssinia in 1934, the book Abyssinia in the Storm was published in 1936 . Small diary from the East African War .
Apparently Strindberg was one of the first journalists in Nazi Germany to know about Hitler's deportations to concentration camps and gas chambers . He wrote a documentary novel about it, which appeared in February 1945 under the title Under jorden i Berlin ( In the underground in Berlin ) and under the pseudonym Fredrik Uhlson as the only work on this subject before the end of the war by Bonnier. The heroes of the work are a prospective rabbi and his girlfriend who find out at the last moment that the Gestapo is about to pick them up and go into hiding. The real role models of these heroes are Herbert and Lotte Strauss, who also report on their experiences in the Third Reich in their own volumes of memoirs. Strindberg himself appears in the work as a Swedish photographer who informs the two of the atrocities committed by the Nazis.
literature
- Jochen Reinert: Strindbergs Sohn , article in: Ossietzky, two-week publication for politics / culture / economy 7/2005
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strindberg, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strindberg-Wedekind, Friedrich (full name); Uhlson, Fredrik (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish-German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1897 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1978 |
| Place of death | Italy |