Günter Dallmann

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Günter Julius Dallmann (born March 26, 1911 in Berlin ; † February 7, 2009 in Stockholm ) was a German journalist , publicist , poet , translator and language teacher .

Life

Günter Dallmann was born in Berlin in 1911 to Jewish parents. His father worked as a doctor of dentistry and was close to the USPD . The affinity for politics passed on to the son at an early age.

As early as 1926, Dallmann began his journalistic career, mostly under a pseudonym , with articles in the Weltbühne , Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ), Welt am Abend and in the anarchist- oriented weekly newspaper Die Schwarze Fahne . His lyrical role model was a friend of his father's, Franz Pfemfert , and his weekly Die Aktion . Eighteen year old Dallmann took part in the May 1, 1929 (the so-called Bloody Sunday ) in a demonstration in Berlin's Schoeneberg in part, was due to resistance to state violence arrested, but thanks to his press card of Black Flag released. After attending the Joachim-Friedrich-Gymnasium , Dallmann studied from 1929 to 1930 at the Berlin University in the newspaper studies seminar with Emil Dovifat and was involved in the "student group" (RSG), which was led by his fellow student Franz Hammer , with whom he was a lifelong friendship. Dallmann continued his studies in Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg with the subjects sociology , political science , national economy and new German literature and wrote his dissertation , which he did not finish.

In Heidelberg, Dallmann met Johanna Herz (1910–2000), whom he married in 1935. There he invented his pseudonym Lot Anker , which he first used for the article Let badges speak in the weekly German Republic directed by Werner Thormann . He also published in numerous newspapers and magazines such as the Junge Front or the Neue Bücherschau .

From 1931 to 1933 Dallmann was a member of the KPD . After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he left Heidelberg on 17 March 1933 and moved in May 1933 as a political refugee , first to Switzerland and then from July 1933 to October 1934 to France. In the spring of 1934, Dallmann received a confirmation of attendance from his Heidelberg professor Arnold Bergstraesser retrospectively with the seminar reference that he had completed the scientific work on the structural change of the modern state in Heidelberg.

Now in exile , Dallmann wrote articles for Klaus Mann's short-lived exile magazine Die Sammlung . For example, in 1934 art politics as a misunderstanding , in which he drew a revealing summary of the cultural-political activities of National Socialism . He was also able to publish lyrical contributions in the Saarland Deutsche Freiheit, which has not yet been harmonized, and in the Berne Tagwacht . Dallmann and his wife were also members of the Association of German Teacher Emigrants .

In 1934 Dallmann finally moved to Sweden, where he immediately began to learn the Swedish language , so that later, after the end of the war , he could work as a journalist, publicist and translator. As an emigrant , Dallmann first had to overcome considerable political resistance from the Swedish editors before he was able to prevail and was allowed to publish in Swedish newspapers. His articles then appeared under the various pseudonyms Lot Anker, Sven Haegner, Eric Landelius, Karl Mörne, HP Schlicht, Günter Dalm in Swedish newspapers, including the renowned daily newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet , but also in exile magazines such as Free Germany , Deutsche Freedom , The Blue Booklet or The Future .

In 1935 he became a member of the Socialist Workers' Party (SAP) and married Johanna Herz, who had also fled from Germany; In 1940 the couple had a daughter. In 1938, Dallmann met his ex-brother-in-law, the journalist Max Barth (1896–1970), who had arrived from Riga and who had married Johanna Herz's sister but had been divorced from her since 1935, in 1938 , and Dallmann last met in Paris in 1934 had met. Under the pseudonym Sven Haegner, Dallmann published the article Sweden and the Third Reich , in which he condemned the Reich Association Sweden-Germany , founded in 1938 , which tried to make National Socialism socially acceptable in Sweden.

From 1939 to 1944, Dallmann also worked as a language teacher at a Stockholm Adult Education Center and was involved with his wife, who was also a teacher, for a time in a teaching community. From 1943 Dallmann also worked as an archive employee , financially supported by the state . In 1944 he was one of the founding members of the working group for democratic Germans and was a member of SAP and the FDKB. On August 31, 1945, Dallmann was granted Swedish citizenship in Stockholm and he also did his military service there .

In the post-war period he returned to Berlin as a journalist for two years and from 1948 worked as a correspondent for the Swedish news agency and the Stockholm editorial office of Agence Europénne des Presse . From 1949 to 1973 Dallmann published for the Berlin daily newspapers Kurier and Tagesspiegel and was editor of a Swedish employee magazine . He reported regularly for Swedish newspapers on the cultural and political developments in East and West Germany , and since 1973 he has been a regular contributor to the magazine Europäische ideen . In 1971 he received the Vilhelm Moberg grant for his journalistic work , which was awarded by the anarchist- syndicalist weekly Arbetaren and awarded journalists who critically discussed society's issues with a democratic attitude. Dallmann also worked as a visiting lecturer at Stockholm University for almost a decade . In contrast to his wife, who had integrated well as a high school teacher in Sweden for many years, he still felt like a staunch Berliner, but a permanent return to the country that was responsible for the murder of his parents was out of the question for him. In 1963 Dallmann responded with his poem Homecoming? skeptical of an appeal by the Berlin Senator for Art and Science Adolf Arndt , who called on the emigrants to return to Germany.

A commemorative publication was dedicated to Dallmann in 1981 to mark his seventieth birthday . From 1990, he again wrote articles for the 1946 newly established world stage , which he regarded as his spiritual home, to their attitude in 1993. Even in exile in Sweden Dallmann had the acquaintance with the also living there painter and writer Peter Weiss made the He reviewed autobiographical books Vanishing Point , Farewell to Parents and The Aesthetics of Resistance in the Swedish journal Moderna Språk and also published other articles on Weiss in Swedish and German newspapers. The relationship with Weiss cooled down in 1965 because the refined Marxist Dallmann could not come to terms with Peter Weiss's partisanship for orthodox Eastern Bloc socialism . In his reply by letter, the person criticized tried to put the difference of opinion into perspective in an understanding tone. In 1986 Dallmann took part in the opening of the exhibition Exile in Sweden at the Academy of Arts (West) and read from his poems on the occasion. Another commemorative publication under the title The New Fascism? The publisher Andreas W. Mytze dedicated it to him in 2006 on his 95th birthday.

Dallmann remained true to his socialist ideals until his death in February 2009 . His grave is in Skogskyrkogården cemetery .

style

In Dallmann's poems, Helmut Müssener writes in the essay volume Deutschsprachige Exillyrik from 1933 to the post-war period “about political poetry in the succession of Kästner , Mehring , Weinert . Shaped by socialist ideals, to which Günter Dallmann remained true even in exile , they are sober and flippant, never sentimental or even self-pitying, satirical and occasionally pessimistic-bitter. The aim is to activate the reader, and only the topics dealt with distinguish these poems from those that he published before 1933. ”In the afterword to the 1995 edition of the poem, Klaus Täubert emphasizes the functionality of Dallmann's poetry. She was Gebrauchslyrik in Brecht ''s sense, have the Expressionism shaken and flankiere the prose of New Objectivity , sometimes couplet - or nursery rhyme-like . In her social polemics and her degree of politicization, she recalled Mascha Kaléko , Max Colpet , Erich Weinert, Erich Kästner, Max Herrmann-Neisse and Karl Schnog .

In the early 1930s, Dallmann had also written polemical essays, a "multitude of political, highly sarcastic comments on the already catastrophic situation of the first German republic, " according to Täubert. In exile, of course, he was concerned with daily German politics and the situation of all those persecuted by the Nazi regime. So he warned in Europe: Start without finish of a danger of war that could only be prevented by a " social revolution ", and in Zwischen den Grenzpfaehlen described the gloomy life prospects of German emigrants in France, whose hopes of return to a liberated homeland were threatened with the possibility that France "come to an understanding" with Hitler instead of fighting him.

After the war he devoted himself to essays on literature and film, as well as book translations. He also acted as an information broker between the Swedish and German news media and in this way continued to participate in the dissemination of current political issues.

Works

  • Günter Dallmann (Lot Anker): Heckling. Poems from a great and a very short time . Afterword by Klaus Täubert. AW Mytze, London 1995.

Translations

  • Hjalmar Söderberg: Doctor glass. Roman (= Library Suhrkamp ; Volume 173). Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1966. (Also in: Hjalmar Söderberg: The Players. Twelve Stories and a Novel (= The Other Library ; Volume 184). Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000. ISBN 978-3-8218-4184- 7. )
  • Hjalmar Bergman: Scandal in Wadköping. Novel . With an afterword by Otto Oberholzer. Walter-Verlag, Olten / Freiburg im Breisgau 1969.

Journalism (selection)

  • 1930: Poverty is a great shine from within! In: Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung , IX. Vol. 52 (Christmas number: Towards the New Year: Forward! Is the big slogan, ours is the world ), Neuer Deutscher Verlag, Berlin.
  • 1930: Tucholsky satire misinterpreted . In: Die Weltbühne , XXVI. Vol. 15, April 8, 1930, p. 560 f.
  • 1931: Lot Anker: Let the badge speak . In: German Republic , issue 31.
  • 1933: Lot Anker: The Jewish tribe . In: The Blue Booklet. Theater, art, politics, economics , Volume 13, No. 2, August 15, 1933, p. 47 f.
  • 1933: Plumb anchor: Europe: Start without finish . In: The Blue Booklet. Theater, art, politics, economics , Volume 13, No. 3, September 1, 1933, pp. 65–67.
  • 1933: Lot anchor: Between the border posts . In: The Blue Booklet. Theater, Art, Politics, Economy , Volume 13, No. 4, September 15, 1933, pp. 104–108.
  • 1933: Günter Dallmann: Fire-proof German literature . In: The Blue Booklet. Theater, Art, Politics, Economics , Volume 13, No. 6, October 15, 1933, pp. 188–190.
  • 1933: Lot Anker: Simultaneous suicide note . In: German freedom. The only independent daily newspaper (Germany) . Features supplement German Voices , October 7, 1933.
  • 1934: Lot Anker: Emigrant writes to Hermann G. In: Deutsche Freiheit. The only independent daily newspaper (Germany) , February 9, 1934. (Also in: Verse der Emigration . Collected by Heinz Wielek. Graphia Publishing House, Karlsbad 1935, pp. 101-102.)
  • 1934: Ballad from Julius Blackmailer (based on Otto Reuter) . In: German freedom. The only independent daily newspaper (Germany) , 10./11. May. 1934.
  • 1934: Günter Dallmann: Uncertain Germany . In: The Collection. Literary monthly , 1st year, 4th issue, pp. 221–222.
  • 1934: Günter Dallmann: Art politics as a misunderstanding . In: The Collection. Literary monthly , 1st year, 9th issue, pp. 501–502.
  • 1935: colleague Fattke . In: Berner Tagwacht , August 16, 1935.
  • 1937: Lot Anker: Stalin as theoretician . In: Free Germany , October 7, 1937.
  • 1939: A wake Europe in Swedish literature . Simultaneously with the poem Spring 1938 by Elmar Dictonus, transferred by Günter Dallmann. In: The future. A new Germany: a new Europe! , Paris, No. 12, p. 6.
  • 1939: Lot Anker: Skepticism and readiness in the north . In: The future. A new Germany: a new Europe! , Paris, No. 12, p. 8.
  • 1939: Sven Haegner: Sweden and the Third Reich . In: The future. A new Germany: a new Europe! , Paris, No. 12, p. 9.
  • 1939: G. Dn .: Strindberg's correspondence . In: The future. A new Germany: a new Europe! , Paris, No. 12, p. 9.
  • 1959: Erich Kästner. When I was a little boy . In: Moderna Språk , Gustav Korlén (ed.), The modern Language Teachers' Association of Sweden, Malmö, 53rd volume, issue 4, October 1959, pp. 436-439.
  • 1959: Israel film - made in Germany . In: Chaplin. Tidskrift för film , issue 6/1959, pp. 144–145.
  • 1961: Filmstaden Berlin . In: Chaplin. Tidskrift för film , issue 3/1961, pp. 71–73.
  • 1961: Vidräkning med en ungdom (accounting for a youth) . In: Sundsvalls Tidning , May 28, 1961.
  • 1962: Peter Weiss. Farewell to my parents . In: Moderna Språk , Gustav Korlén (Ed.), The modern Language Teachers' Association of Sweden, Malmö, 56th vol. 3, pp. 339–342.
  • 1963: Peter Weiss flyktrapport (Peter Weiss' escape report ). In: Sundsvalls Tidning , January 14, 1963.
  • 1964: Back to the mother tongue. Peter Weiss . In: Moderna Språk , Gustav Korlén (ed.), The modern Language Teachers' Association of Sweden, Malmö, 58th vol. 1, pp. 8-12.
  • 1967: Very angry with Sweden. How Peter Weiss reacts to the criticism . In Saarbrücker Zeitung , February 8, 1967.
  • 1967: Marianne Eichholz: Berlin. A lyrical city map, Cologne 1964. Ingeborg Bachmann: A place for coincidences, Berlin 1965 . In: Moderna Språk , Gustav Korlén (Ed.), The modern Language Teachers' Association of Sweden, Malmö, Volume 61, No. 4, pp. 400–403.
  • 1978: Peter Weiss 'The Aesthetics of Resistance , Volume 1. In: Moderna Språk , Gustav Korlén (Ed.), The modern Language Teachers' Association of Sweden, Malmö, Volume 72, Issue 3, pp. 301–306.
  • 1980: THE ACTION / Franz Pfemfert . In: Robert Havemann 70 . Andreas W. Mytze (ed.), European ideas , Issue 48, 1980, pp 61-75.
  • 1987: En bok om EM Rémarque '- eller: Tyska Litteraturämnen i skamvrån . In: Moderna Språk , Gustav Korlén (ed.), The modern Language Teachers' Association of Sweden, Malmö, 81. Vol. 3, pp. 238–242.
  • 1992: Secret paths to chaos . In: The Fourth Reich? Andreas W. Mytze (ed.), European ideas , Issue 80, 1992, p 5 f.
  • 1992: Farewell to Marlene . In: The world stage. Wochenschrift für Politik, Kunst, Wirtschaft , Volume 87, Issue 21, May 19, 1992, pp. 627–629.
  • 1995: Letter to the pumpkin seed editorial team. A document from 1984 . In: Still in exile? Andreas W. Mytze (ed.), European ideas , Issue 95, 1995, p 19 f.

Awards

  • 1971: Vilhelm Moberg Prize for Journalism, Stockholm.

literature

  • Renate Lingons, Kerstin Svevar: The publicist Günter Dallmann. A biography with a selection from his journalistic activities . German Institute, Stockholm 1971.
  • Günter Dallmann. Tillägnan från vänner on 70-årsdagen den 26 mars 1981 (Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Günter Dallmann with contributions by Gustav Korlén, Evert Arvidsson and Richard Löwenthal as well as Dallmann's poem Flykting from 1935). Own print, Stockholm 1981.
  • Klaus Täubert: Epilogue . In: Günter Dallmann (Lot Anker): Heckling. Poems from a great and a very short time . AW Mytze, London 1995, pp. 84-90.
  • Günter Dallmann on his 95th birthday . In: The new fascism? . Andreas W. Mytze (ed.), European ideas , No. 133, 2006, p 1 ff.
  • Dallmann, Günter , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 201
  • Dallmann, Günter , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 121

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Walther: Proposal. Günter Dallmann reads in the Zimmermann bookstore. In: taz.de. September 29, 1995. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Klaus Täubert: Epilogue . In: Heckling. Poems from a great and a very short time . Afterword by Klaus Täubert. AW Mytze, London 1995, p. 84-90 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Manfred Schlösser (Ed.): Exile in Sweden . Akademie der Künste , Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-88331-949-X , Günter Dallmann, p. 46 f .
  4. ↑ a b c Günter Dallmann . In: Heckling. Poems from a great and a very short time . Afterword by Klaus Täubert. AW Mytze, London 1995 (blurb).
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Anne E. Dünzelmann: Stockholm walks. On the trail of German exiles 1933–1945 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7412-5416-1 , Günter Dallmann, p. 64 f .
  6. ↑ Alphabetical overview of the biographical material (A – G). Günter Dallmann. In: exil-archive.de. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
  7. ^ A b Helmut Müssener: The German-speaking emigration in Sweden after 1933. Your history and cultural achievement . Ed .: Tyska Institutions Stockholms Universitet. Holmqvists Reprotryck, Stockholm 1971, short biographies, p. 642–679 , here p. 649 (institutional allocation unclear despite autopsy, as Stockholm Universitet only stamped and foreword written in Uppsala; information such as WorldCat).
  8. ^ Günter Dallmann: Art politics as a misunderstanding . In: Klaus Mann (ed.): The collection . Literary monthly under the patronage of André Gide, Aldous Huxley, Heinrich Mann. No. 9/1934 . Querido, Amsterdam September 1934, glosses, p. 501 f . (Also published as a reprint by Rogner & Bernhard in Zweiausendeins, 1986).
  9. ↑ Hildegard Feidel-Mertz / Hermann Schnorbach : teachers in emigration. The Association of German Teacher Emigrants (1933–39) in the traditional context of the democratic teachers' movement , Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel, 1981, ISBN 3-407-54114-7 , p. 228
  10. ↑ a b Helmut Müssener: Exile in Sweden. Political and cultural emigration after 1933 . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-446-11850-0 , Who is who in German-language literature in Sweden, p. 501 .
  11. ^ Helmut Müssener: The German-speaking emigration in Sweden after 1933. Your history and cultural achievement . Ed .: Tyska Institutions Stockholms Universitet. Holmqvists Reprotryck, Stockholm 1971, chapter 9.4. The journalists, S. 480–489 , here pp. 481, 483 (institutional assignment unclear despite autopsy, as Stockholm Universitet only stamped and wrote foreword in Uppsala; information such as WorldCat).
  12. ^ A b Peter Weiss: Letter to Günter Dallmann. A document from 1965 . In: european ideas . No. 142 , 2008, ISSN  0344-2888 , p. 36 f .
  13. ↑ Helmut Müssener: Exile in Sweden. Political and cultural emigration after 1933 . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-446-11850-0 , Politically Oriented Associations. The Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP) in the Swedish emigration. Your history, organization and goals, p. 170 .
  14. ^ Anne E. Dünzelmann: Stockholm walks. On the trail of German exiles 1933–1945 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7412-5416-1 , Max Barth, p. 42 f .
  15. ↑ Helmut Müssener: Exile in Sweden. Political and cultural emigration after 1933 . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-446-11850-0 , The groups of German-speaking emigration in Sweden. Your history and journalism. Teacher Community, S. 115 .
  16. ^ Anne E. Dünzelmann: Stockholm walks. On the trail of German exiles 1933–1945 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7412-5416-1 , Chapter IV Appendix, p. 222 .
  17. ↑ Helmut Müssener: Exile in Sweden. Political and cultural emigration after 1933 . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-446-11850-0 , Politically Oriented Associations. The Working Group of Democratic Germans and "Human Rights in a New Germany", p. 183 .
  18. ^ A b c d Helmut Müssener: The German-speaking emigration in Sweden after 1933. Your history and cultural achievement . Ed .: Tyska Institutions Stockholms Universitet. Holmqvists Reprotryck, Stockholm 1971, chapter 9.4. The journalists, S. 480–489 , here p. 483 (institutional assignment unclear despite autopsy, as Stockholm Universitet only stamped and foreword written in Uppsala; information such as WorldCat).
  19. ↑ a b Helmut Müssener: Nelly Sachs and… German-speaking Exile (?) - Poetry in Sweden . In: Jörg Thunecke (Hrsg.): Deutschsprachige Exillyrik from 1933 to the post-war period (=  Amsterdam contributions to recent German studies ). tape 44 . Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1998, ISBN 90-420-0574-2 , pp. 101–117 , here p. 108 ff .
  20. ↑ Lot anchor: Europe: start without finish . In: The Blue Booklet . Theater, art, politics, business. 13th year no. 3 , September 1, 1933, pp. 65-67 .
  21. ↑ Plumb anchor: Between the border posts . In: The Blue Booklet . Theater, art, politics, business. 13th year no. 4 , September 15, 1933, p. 104-108 .
personal data
SURNAME Dallmann, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dallmann, Günter Julius (full name); Solder anchor (pseudonym); Haegner, Sven (pseudonym); Landelius, Eric (pseudonym); Mörne, Karl (pseudonym); Schlicht, HP (pseudonym); Dalm, Günter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish journalist, publicist, poet, translator, language teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2009
Place of death Stockholm