Georg W. Pijet
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.
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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
- Pijet, Georg W (aldemar). In: Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area . Digitized
- Biographical manual of the SBZ / GDR digitized
- Albert Sixtus archive digitized
- Georg W. Pijet archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Lexicon of Socialist German Literature , p. 397.
- ↑ Ursula Heukenkamp (ed.): Under the emergency roof. Post-war literature in Berlin 1945–1949 . Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1996, p. 226.
- ^ First German Writers' Congress October 4-8, 1947 . Edited by Ursula Reinhold, Dieter Schlenstedt and Horst Tanneberge
- ^ Academy of the Arts - Berlin
- ↑ Federal Archives
- ↑ Excerpt in: Proletarisch-Revolutionäre Literatur 1918 to 1933. Ein Abriß , pp. 233-235.
- ↑ Die Weltbühne 28-2 1932
personal data | |
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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 |