Georg Gretor

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Georg Gretor , pseudonym Georges Barbizon , (born July 25, 1892 in Barbizon , † December 30, 1943 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish journalist.

Life

Georg Gretor was a son of the Swiss painter Rosa Pfäffinger from her Parisian relationship with the Danish painter and art dealer Willy Gretor . He grew up partly in France, partly in England, and from 1904 on with Käthe Kollwitz , a college friend of his mother's. There he lived for several years with Hans , Karl and Peter Kollwitz . From 1911 to 1913 he was a student at the Free School Community of Wickersdorf , where he also taught French as a substitute teacher. Under his pseudonym Georges Barbizon , he and Siegfried Bernfeld gave the school newspaper The Beginning. Youth magazine. The beginning goes back to a school newspaper of the same title published between 1908 and 1910. In 1911 another four issues were published at irregular intervals; from May 1913 up to and including July 1914 the magazine was published monthly. When the First World War broke out , Gretor, who had Swiss citizenship through his mother , went to Switzerland and studied at the universities of Zurich and Basel.

In 1922 he married the Danish writer Esther Kaae and moved with her to Denmark . He worked in Copenhagen as a correspondent for various German newspapers. In 1927 he organized the first major exhibition of Icelandic art here, a selection of which was subsequently shown through the Nordic Society in Lübeck, Kiel, Hamburg and Berlin.

From 1927 the couple lived in Germany again. Gretor worked as a correspondent for the newspaper Politiken in Hamburg . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , they finally returned to Denmark in 1933. Georg Gretor became editor at Politiken . Both were active in the fight against National Socialism , primarily in journalism, but also through direct support for emigrants who took them in at their Jenrikhus home in Frederikssund .

Works

  • (Ed.): The beginning. ( Digital copies )
  • Youth movement and youth castle. With a foreword by Bruno Goetz . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1918.
  • Iceland's culture and its young painting. Edited by the Nordic Society. E. Diederichs, Jena 1928.

literature

  • Gideon Botsch, Josef Haverkamp: Youth Movement, Anti-Semitism and Right-Wing Politics: From the “Freideutschen Jugendtag” to the present. (= European-Jewish studies - contributions 13). de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11030642-2 ; P. 80, note 16.
  • Thomas Raff (Ed.): The truth is often unlikely: Thomas Theodor Heine's letters to Franz Schoenberner from exile (= publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry 82. ISSN  0418-8128 ). Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-89244465-7 , p. 333.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So Botsch / Haverkamp (lit.); according to GND 1942 in Frederikssund
  2. ^ Yury Winterberg , Sonya Winterberg : Kollwitz. The biography. Bertelsmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-10202-2 , p. 90 (with Gretor's children's photo).
  3. ^ Directory of pupils and teachers of the Free School Community of Wickersdorf. In: Archives of the German youth movement , Ludwigstein Castle near Witzenhausen in Hesse.
  4. ↑ Peter Dudek : “You are and will remain the old abstract ideologue!” The reform pedagogue Gustav Wyneken (1875–1864). A biography . Julius Klinkhardt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7815-2176-6 , pp. 174-186 (citation: p. 177).
  5. ↑ ZDB ID 543340-x
  6. ↑ First steps in promoting Icelandic art in Copenhagen. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  7. ↑ Ellemor angle Georg Moltved: Jenrikhus og Georg Gretor. In: Jul i Frederikssund. 13 (1991), pp. 23-30.
personal data
SURNAME Gretor, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barbizon, Georges (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Barbizon
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1943
Place of death Copenhagen