Gerhart Pohl

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Gerhart Pohl (born July 9, 1902 in Trachenberg , Silesia , † August 15, 1966 in Berlin (West) ) was a German writer and editor .

life and work

Honorary grave, Potsdamer Chaussee 75, in Berlin-Nikolassee

During the Weimar Republic, Pohl was temporarily the editor of the magazine Die neue Bücherschau. A literary monthly. Poetry, criticism, graphics.

From 1926 to 1932, Pohl worked as a speaker and presenter for the first radio stations to emerge in Germany. At the regional broadcasters Funk-Hour Berlin , ORAG Königsberg, SFS Breslau, WERAG Cologne, SWR Frankfurt, MIRAG Leipzig and the national broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) he was involved in a total of 79 programs on art and literature and read his own writings and prose , Essays and poems before. This made him a pioneer in conveying literary content in the early days of broadcasting .

In 1932 he bought a small wooden house in Krummhübel- Wolfshau in Lower Silesia , the model for the Fluchtburg in his later novel of the same name from 1955. Pohl met here regularly with friends and like-minded people, namely those opposed to and persecuted by the Nazi regime (including Will Erich Peuckert , Carlo Mierendorff , Theodor Haubach , Johannes Wüsten , Jochen Klepper and Werner Milch ). Pohl himself was temporarily banned from his profession by the National Socialists by excluding him from the Reichsschrifttumskammer in 1935 . There, however, there were differences with regard to Gerhart Pohl: Kurt Metzner spoke out against Pohl, Wilhelm Ihde in favor of his whereabouts, and he was given the opportunity to apply for special permission for publication on a case-by-case basis. His successful novel The Brothers Wagemann was published around 1936 . In 1939, an application made by Pohl for re-admission to the Reichsschrifttumskammer was finally granted, not least due to discrete influence on the part of Gerhart Hauptmann in the background.

The author and editor (at times: Aufbau Verlag ) was a narrator , novelist , playwright and essayist . He was also the editor , editor and employee of Gerhart Hauptmann in the latter years of his life. After 1950 he also wrote old memoranda under the pseudonym Silesius on the question of the formerly German eastern territories. The first post-war edition of his novels The Wagemann Brothers and Der verrückte Ferdinand appeared in the German Book Association in 1952 , and the late work after 1945 was overseen and published by Lettner-Verlag (Berlin).

His profound key novel Fluchtburg (1955), which reflects persecution, resistance and emigration - internal as well as external - during the Nazi era on the basis of his own experience is particularly important . The book published by Lettner-Verlag was awarded the East German Literature Prize. The memory book of Gerhart Hauptmann's last days in Silesia is also important: Am I still in my house? (1953; edition with afterword by his friend Günter Gerstmann, 2004; newly published in 2011 by Plöttner Verlag ; also: translation in the USA).

Gerhart Pohl was buried in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf . The grave is one of the honor graves of the State of Berlin .

His estate , as far as it is preserved, is in the Gerhart-Pohl archive in the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

Gerhart Pohl's house in Wolfshau, the former “Refuge Castle”, has been under construction since 2015 on the initiative of the “Fluchtburg e. V: “restored as a memorial and a German-Polish meeting place.

Honors

Fonts

  • Diary of strange seductions. Stories, E. Gottschalk, Berlin 1924.
  • German judicial murder - the legal and political material on the Fechenbach case at the same time the answer of the German intellectuals to the German republic. With contributions by Johannes R. Becher ; Otto Flake ; Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster and others and legal statements by Arnold Freymuth; Friedrich Kitzinger ; Eduard Kohlrausch … Erich Oldenburg, Leipzig 1924. Attached article by the Swiss journalist René Payot The Fechenberg case .
  • Game playful. Stories, A. Schultz, Berlin 1929.
  • Advance into the 20th century. Ges. Essays u. Article from the "Neue Bücherschau", WR Lindner, Leipzig 1932.
  • The Wagemann brothers . Roman, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1936.
  • Fall of the Goddess - The Strange Fate of Miss Aubry . Novelle, Stollberg Verlag, Merseburg 1939.
  • Mad Ferdinand . Roman, Deutsche Verl. Anstalt, Stuttgart 1939
  • Immortality: German speeches from 2 centuries . Worried u. Introduced by Gerhart Pohl, Buchmeister-Verlag and Gutenberg Book Guild, Berlin 1942
  • The lucky guy . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1943. Overall title: Bertelsmann field post books
  • Between yesterday and tomorrow: stories from two decades. Chronos-Verlag, Berlin 1948.
  • The recorder. Story, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1948. (New edition 1957 under the title Harter Süd in Lettner-Verlag, Berlin . )
  • How many murderers are there today? Stories, Lettner-Verlag, Berlin 1953. (New edition 1954 ibid. Under the title Angel Masks. )
  • Am i still in my house - The last days of Gerhart Hauptmann. Lettner-Verlag, Berlin 1953.
  • Refuge. Roman, Lettner-Verlag, Berlin 1955.
  • Hiking on Mount Athos. Lettner-Verlag, Berlin 1960.
  • Southeastern melody - essay, speech, radio play. Lettner-Verlag, Berlin 1963.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gerhart Pohl: Formation of a real community of readers . In O. V.]: The book donates community (commemorative publication for the fortieth anniversary of the German Book Association), Berlin a. a. 1964, p. 55 f.
  2. ↑ Cf. Theresia Wittenbrink: Writer in front of the microphone - author appearances on radio during the Weimar Republic 1924–1932. In: Publications of the German Broadcasting Archive. Volume 36, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2006
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 461.
  4. ^ Jan-Pieter Barbian : The Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany: Books in the Media Dictatorship, Bloomsbury, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4411-7923-4 , page 163.
  5. ↑ https://www.goerlitzer-anzeiger.de/goerlitz/gesellschaft/15502_die-fluchtburg-in-krummhuebel-wird-saniert.html
personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Gerhart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silesius old man
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Trachenberg , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 1966
Place of death Berlin (West)