Gerhart Baron

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Gerhart Baron (born May 7, 1904 in Kandrzin , Cosel district , Upper Silesia ; † March 7, 1978 in Linz , Upper Austria ) was an Austrian author .

Book coverː Gerhart Baron, Die Wiedergeburt. Eighty poems (Regensburg 1964)

Life

Baron was the oldest of ten children. His father, Gabriel Baron (1870–1919) was a simple post office clerk ("Oberpostschaffner") of rural origin and died early. Attending a secondary school in Zabrze / Hindenburg was not possible. Gerhart Baron had to take care of the widowed mother and his nine siblings financially. He completed his watchmaking apprenticeship , but then worked in industry . At the age of 13, Baron wrote his first poems. 1925 inclusion in Karl Bröger's anthology “Youngest Workers' Poetry ”. From 1924 he was a librarian in Hindenburg , built up a workers' library and from 1926 to 1933 also managed the branch libraries of the municipal public library, the Meisengrund Waldorf School and the Pestalozzi School in Mathesdorf . In 1927 he became a member of the literary circle “Young Upper Silesia” led by Bruno G. Tschierschke, editor of the “Oberschlesische Zeitung”, in Beuthen (from which the “Community of Young Upper Silesian Poets” later emerged). In 1929 he was involved as a working-class poet - with the Upper Silesian poet Wilhelm Tkaczyk (1907–1982) - in founding the “Upper Silesia Industrial Group” of the Association of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers (BPRS), which in 1933 could have been the cause of his unemployment . In 1937 he became a librarian in the Office for Upper Silesian Regional Studies and by chance escaped being sent to a concentration camp . In 1938 he began work on a complete bibliography of the Neissegau . From 1940 to 1941 he prepared for the Abitur , but then had to join the armed forces . He mainly worked in the administration of the prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz ( Stalag VIII A ). In 1944 Gerhart Baron was a troop librarian (“Gefreiter”) in Neisse with the staff / assault gun replacement department 300. In Gleiwitz , Baron met Fritz Hüser , the library manager of the Schaffgottschen Werke and later Dortmund library director. Towards the end of the war, Baron bei Fürstenberg on the Oder was seriously wounded. During his stay in the hospital, he was taken prisoner by the US.

As a displaced person he came to Upper Austria in 1946 , where he first worked in the factory of Lenzing AG and from 1955 found employment as an archivist for the Chamber of Labor in Linz. He built up the archive and managed it until his retirement in 1969. Poems in numerous anthologies, including from 1936 to 1942 also in the Munich literary magazine "Das Innere Reich" recommended by the Regensburg poet Georg Britting . In July 1944, Gerhart Baron had also sent his first volume of poetry “Arrival” (1943) to Gerhart Hauptmann, the Silesian Nobel Prize for Literature, “with old and heartfelt admiration”. Almost 50 poems were set to music after 1945 by Günter Bialas , Roland Häfner, Alexander Ecklebe and Viktor Bermeiser. Since 1950 he has been working on the "Bibliography of Workers 'Poetry in the German-speaking Area including Workers' Education", which has been on permanent loan from the Contemporary History Museum in Ebensee (Austria) since November 2019 . Gerhart Baron was married to the Upper Silesian pianist and piano teacher Margarete "Gritta" Jenoch (1906–1995) since July 1943. The marriage remained childless due to the war. A nephew is the culture manager and journalist Bernhard M. Baron from Upper Palatinate .

Gerhart Baron was a member of the SPD before 1933, after 1946 of the SPÖ as well as the Innviertel Artists Guild and the PEN Club Austria . Gerhart Baron's literary estate is in the archive of the Haus Oberschlesien Foundation in Ratingen / North Rhine-Westphalia.

Works

  • Young Upper Silesian Poetry . (Co-editor), Beuthen O / S, 1928
  • Arrival . (Poems), Potsdam 1943
  • The rebirth (poems), Regensburg 1964
  • The beginning. The beginnings of the workers' education associations in Upper Austria . Linz / Austria 1971
  • Quirim a stone . (Poems), Echzell 1981 posthumously, ISBN 3-921640-51-2
  • The city of Lubum . (5 Upper Silesian fairy tales), Waldbrunn 1982 posthumously, ISBN 3-921640-58-X
  • In deed and dream . (Poems), Waldbrunn 1982 posthumously, ISBN 3-921640-59-8
  • October woman in the snow . (Poems), Waldbrunn 1984 posthumously, ISBN 3-921640-71-7
  • Basnie. Fairy tale . (Polish / German) as a rule “Jewels of Silesian literature. Perły literatury śląskiej “N. 9, Lubowitz / Łubowice (Poland) 2013 posthumously, 2nd edition 2017, ISBN 978-83-935016-7-0

Awards

literature

  • Gerhard Lüdtke (ed.), Kürschner's German Literature Calendar for 1932 , Vol. 46, Berlin 1932, p. 50.
  • Gerhard Lüdtke (ed.), Kürschner's German Literature Calendar for 1934 , Vol. 47, Berlin 1934, p. 28.
  • Erich Grisar , what's left? On the question of German worker poetry, in: Neuer Vorwärts (Bonn) of November 6, 1953, p. 9.
  • Arno Lubos : History of the literature of Silesia . Volume II. Munich 1967, pp. 249-254.
  • Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1967. Volume 55, Berlin 1967, pp. 34–35.
  • Gerald Stieg , Bernd Witte: Outline of a History of German Workers' Literature . Stuttgart 1973, pp. 66 and 130, ISBN 3-12-391300-7 .
  • Jochen Hoffbauer : Gerhart Baron - a Silesian in the Innviertel. For the 100th birthday on May 7, 2004 . In: Schlesischer Kulturspiegel, vol. 39, No. 2/2004 (April – June), Würzburg 2004, pp. 26–27.
  • Herbert Hupka : "I stay happily lonely". For the 100th birthday of the “worker poet” Gerhart Baron . In: Kulturpolitische Korrespondenz (KK) No. 1184 of April 20, 2004. Ed. By the East German Cultural Council, Bonn.
  • Fritz Hüser 1908 - 1979. Letters . Edited by Jasmin Grande i. A. of the Fritz-Hüser-Gesellschaft Dortmund, Oberhausen 2008, pp. 15-27, ISBN 978-3-938834-39-8 .
  • Herbert Groß: Important Upper Silesians. Short biographies , Dülmen 1995, pp. 481-483, ISBN 3-87466-192-X .
  • Ernst Schraepler, Baron Gerhart: The beginning (review), In: International scientific correspondence (IWK) on the history of the German labor movement , ed. i. A. of the Historical Commission in Berlin, No. 14 / December 1971, Berlin, pp. 94–95.
  • Franz Schimanko, Prof. Gerhart Baron died , in: Bildungskurier , bulletin of the Socialist Education Center Linz (Austria), 29th year 1978, issue 2, p. 1.
  • Franz Heiduk : Gerhart Baron † . In: Quarterly magazine SCHLESIEN , Heft II / 1978, Würzburg, pp. 125–128.
  • Viktor Bermeiser, Workers' Life. Ballads, songs, songs and chansons for voice and piano. 1st issue, Electio Edition (Vienna) 1962, pp. 4–7.
  • Alexander Ecklebe, Six songs based on texts by Gerhart Baron for medium-high voice and piano, ed. by Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, SILESIA CANTAT series, issue 13, Dülmen 1977.
  • Suzanna Wycisk-Müller, Schöpferisches SCHLESIEN from A to Z , Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-95744-377-9 , p. 17.
  • Bernhard M. Baron , Gerhart Baron - a poet and social researcher from Upper Silesia , in: Eichendorff-Hefte / Zeszyty Eichendorffa No. 46/2014 , in the series “ Editio Silesia ”, ed. from the Upper Silesian Eichendorff Culture and Meeting Center, Lubowitz / Lubowice (Poland / Polska) 2014, pp. 24–32, ISSN  1730-4873 .

Web links

Commons : Gerhart Baron  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Gerhart Baron , biography and estate in the portal rheinische-literaturnachlaesse.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murawski Leokadia, The literary circle “Young Upper Silesia” in Beuthen OS., In: “Mitteilungen des Beuthener Geschichts- und Museumsverein”, Heft 34/35 - 1972/1973, Dortmund 1973, pp. 162–176.
  2. ^ Baron Gerhart, biography on the website Kulturportal West-Ost
  3. ↑ The wide range extends from Ostdeutsche Balladen , Eugen Diederichs, p. 79, Düsseldorf 1953, and Mirror of our Becoming. Man and Work in German Poetry from Goethe to Brecht , ed. by Renè Schwachhofer and Wilhelm Tkaczyk , Verlag der Nation Berlin / DDR 1969, pp. 144–146, on The Silesian Ballad Book. From Strachwitz to the present (ed. By Hanns Gottschalk) , Delp Munich 1973, pp. 64–68, to the end in: Wulf Kirsten : “Resistant is the easily vulnerable”. Poems in German from Nietzsche to Celan . Amman, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-938776-41-4 and in: Raymond Dittrich, Lute and Guitar in German-Language Poetry. An anthology vol. 2 , Engelsdorfer Verlag Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-96145-337-5 , pp. 228-229.
  4. ↑ Berlin State Library
  5. ↑ Gerhart Baron's archive in the Contemporary History Museum Ebensee (Austria)
  6. ^ Archives of the Haus Oberschlesien Foundation
  7. ↑ www.kulturportal-west-ost.eu/biographies/baron-gerhard-2/
personal data
SURNAME Baron, Gerhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Kandrzin , Cosel District , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1978
Place of death Linz , Upper Austria