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.