Georg W. Pijet

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Georg Waldemar Pijet (born February 14, 1907 in Berlin ; died July 16, 1988 there ) was a German playwright, journalist and children's book author. His pseudonyms were Georg W. Manfred , Peter Pinkpank and Elmer Roth .

Life

Georg W. Pijet came from a working class family. He attended the Humboldt School and the Lessing University in Berlin and worked as a bank clerk. In 1924 he became unemployed and joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany . In 1925 he became a member of the KPD .

Pijet was active in the Workers' Theater Association of Germany and from 1928 to 1931 headed the playgroup of the "Proletarian Radio Association". He was a member of the main board of the League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers and its first secretary.

Until 1937 he was a radio editor. He was banned from publishing and was imprisoned. Pijet was also active in the resistance against National Socialism. From 1944 to 1945 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

In 1945 he became editor of the "Official Journal of the Berlin-Reinickendorf District Office". In 1946, Pijet was the publisher of the magazine “Berliner Kindermagazin” in the French-licensed publisher “Freund der Jugend”. In 1954 he moved to the GDR . Georg W. Pijet had been a member of the German Writers' Association since 1947 .

His estate is in the Akademie der Künste .

Works

  • Pucciana, or a dance of death in Venice. A romantic tragedy . Self-published, Berlin 1924.
  • Cruiser under red. Sailor tragedy in six acts . Arbeiter-Theaterverlag A. Jahn, Leipzig 1927. (= Revolution Stage 16)
  • D-Zug CK 3rd revolutionary spectacle in one elevator. Role book . Arbeiter-Theaterverlag A. Jahn, Leipzig 1928. (= Revolution Stage 19)
  • The street of the pants . Landfahrer Verlag, Berlin 1929. (= Landfahrer-Buch 1)
  • The crushed. Tragedy in five acts . Arbeiter-Theaterverlag A. Jahn, Leipzig 1929.
  • The mandate. A German citizen comedy in 5 acts . Arbeiter-Theaterverlag A. Jahn, Leipzig 1929.
  • Viennese barricades and other stories . Youth International, Berlin 1930. (= The red drummer 10)
    • Barikadoj en Vieno kaj aliaj rakontoj . Ekrelo, Leipzig 1932.
  • Worldview-bound radio criticism . In: Rufer und Hörer . 2 (1932/33), p. 463.
  • Struppi! A funny story about 4 boys and a dog . Herold Verlag, Stuttgart 1934. (22nd edition 1953)
  • Hunt for ghosts. Funny adventures of mysterious ghosts, mutineers, little slackers and brave boys . 6th - 7th thousand, Schneider, Leipzig, Vienna 1935.
  • Comrade Prince Dabby. An adventure story from Alaska . Verlag Freund der Jugend, Berlin-Reinickendorf 1946.
  • Scream in the fog. A boys' adventure in the Giant Mountains . Bardtenschlager, Reutlingen 1947.
  • Prickly pelvis. Tales of hedgehogs, foxes and other animals . Verlag Freund der Jugend, Berlin-Reinickendorf 1948. (= friendship with animals )
  • Barbara and Monika. A novel for women . Upper Bavarian Printing House, Rosenheim / Obb. 1953. (= The chest 62)
  • The scarecrow man. A piece for children in 6 pictures . Hofmeister, Leipzig 1956. (= children's stage )
  • Under the robber standard . Text drawings by Siegfried Oelke. Rauhen Haus agency, Hamburg 1958 (= Treasure Island 15)
  • Honest Finder G. mb H. An exciting but fun boys' adventure . Pan, Wildbad 1959.
  • The suspicion. Narration . Grandstand, Berlin 1963.
  • The food column and other stories . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1963 (= Rote Dietz series 38)
  • The bomb under the bed. Anecdotes about Marx and Engels and their contemporaries . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1972.
  • Trial for against Lenin . Anecdotes and episodes . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1974.
  • Tenements . In: Early radio plays . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 199-220.
  • Duel with the past. Anecdotes . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1982.
  • The boards of my world. Stories of a lifetime . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1987.

Radio plays

  • 1931: Driven hunt - one-time broadcast by the Breslau broadcaster on May 28, 1931
  • 1960: Love marriage - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1964: Tenement barracks - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1982: Driven Hunt - Director: Hans Bernd Müller (Radio Play - SR / SFB)
  • 1983: Driven Hunt - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)

literature

  • Pijet, Georg W. In: Lexicon of socialist German literature. From the beginning until 1945. Monographic-biographical accounts . Verlag Sprache und Literatur, Halle (Saale) 1963, pp. 397–398.
  • Pijet, Georg W. In: Lexicon of German-speaking writers. From the beginning to the present . Volume 2. L - Z . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1968, p. 171.
  • Pijet, Georg W. In: Proletarian-Revolutionary Literature 1918 to 1933. An outline . Volk und Wissen, Berlin 1970, pp. 323-324. (= Contemporary writers 9)
  • Alfred Klein: On behalf of your class. Path and achievement of the German working-class writers 1918–1933. Construction publishing house, Berlin. Weimar 1976, pp. 520-525.
  • Franz Hammer : Helping the anecdote regain its worth. Georg W. Pijet on his 75th birthday . In: Neues Deutschland from February 18, 1982.
  • Alfred Klein: Good and bad years. Georg W. Pijet: “The boards of my world. Stories of a Life ” . In: GDR literature ... in conversation . Construction publishing house, Berlin. Weimar 1987, pp. 311-319. ISSN  0233-1594
  • Horst Heitzenröther: Witness of our time and always its co-designer. On the death of the writer Georg W. Pijet . In: Neues Deutschland from July 19, 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon of Socialist German Literature , p. 397.
  2. ↑ Ursula Heukenkamp (ed.): Under the emergency roof. Post-war literature in Berlin 1945–1949 . Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1996, p. 226.
  3. ^ First German Writers' Congress October 4-8, 1947 . Edited by Ursula Reinhold, Dieter Schlenstedt and Horst Tanneberge
  4. ^ Academy of the Arts - Berlin
  5. ↑ Federal Archives
  6. ↑ Excerpt in: Proletarisch-Revolutionäre Literatur 1918 to 1933. Ein Abriß , pp. 233-235.
  7. ↑ Die Weltbühne 28-2 1932
personal data
SURNAME Pijet, Georg W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pijet, Georg Waldemar (full name); Manfred, Georg W. (pseudonym); Pinkpank, Peter (pseudonym); Roth, Elmer (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright, journalist and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1988
Place of death Berlin