Hanns-Erich Kaminski

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Hanns-Erich Kaminski (born November 29, 1899 in Labiau , East Prussia, † 1963 in Buenos Aires ) was a German journalist and writer who fled from the National Socialists first to France and then to Argentina . He wrote under the pseudonyms Max Tann and Noël Pierre Lenoir .

Life

The son of Jewish merchants attended high school in Königsberg and graduated from high school in 1917. After the end of the First World War , he studied economics, social science, philosophy and literature at the Universities of Königsberg, Freiburg, Berlin, Frankfurt and Heidelberg. In 1922 he was in Heidelberg with a thesis on "Theory of dumping" doctorate .

After completing his studies, Kaminski worked as a journalist and from 1921 to 1933 worked for the Weltbühne , for which he wrote 101 articles. From 1926 he also worked as an editor for the social democratic newspaper Volksstimme in Frankfurt am Main . At the same time he made numerous trips, including to Italy, Spain, Spanish Morocco and France. He lived in Berlin from 1928 and wrote for various newspapers, including the Berliner Tageblatt and the Vossische Zeitung .

In June 1932, Kaminski, along with Albert Einstein , Erich Kästner , Käthe Kollwitz , Heinrich Mann , Arnold Zweig and others, was one of the signatories of an urgent appeal that pleaded for the two big left-wing parties, the SPD and KPD , to "merge" in the face of the threat of National Socialist takeover .

Under the impression of the National Socialist takeover, Kaminski emigrated to Paris in February 1933 , where he continued to work as a journalist and in political exile organizations. In the initial phase of the Spanish Civil War , he traveled to Catalonia in 1936 and published a travelogue in France in 1937 under the title Ceux de Barcelone , which was marked by clear sympathy for the Spanish anarchists.

After the German occupation of France in World War II , Kaminski and his partner Anita Karfunkel fled to Portugal with false papers. In Lisbon they both received a visa for Argentina. Kaminski and Anita Karfunkel had lived in Buenos Aires since 1941, where he then worked as a teacher at a grammar school and authored numerous publications under the name Noël Pierre Lenoir. On June 13, 1941, he was expatriated from the German Reich .

Works

  • Fascism in Italy. Foundations, rise, fall , Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft, Berlin 1925.
  • Ceux de Barcelone , Denoël, Paris 1937 (translations into Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Dutch and German).
    • German edition under the title: Barcelona. A day and its consequences , Berlin, edition tranvía, 1986 (2nd edition: 2004).
  • Céline en chemise brune ou Le Mal du Présent , Nouvelles Editions Excelsior, Paris 1938 (also in Portuguese and Dutch translations).
  • Michel Bakounine. La Vie d'un Révolutionnaire , Aubier-Montaigne, Paris 1938 (also in Italian translation).
  • El nazismo como problema sexual, ensayo de psicopatología , Imán, Buenos Aires 1941.
  • (Noel Pierre Lenoir :) Los Problemas de la Paz . Editorial Claridad, Buenos Aires 1943.
  • (Noel Pierre Lenoir :) Préface à la paix . Montreal 1944.
  • (Noel Pierre Lenoir :) El renacimiento socialista . Buenos Aires, Claridad [1946]
  • (Noel Pierre Lenoir :) Sociologia de la revolucion. Génesis, desarrollo y eclipse de las revoluciones a través de la historia . Buenos Aires, Claridad 1947.
  • (Noël Pierre Lenoir :) Revolución, altitud 4000 metros , Buenos Aires: Editorial Cátedra Lisandro de la Torre, 1958.
  • (Noel Pierre Lenoir :) Historia del amor en occidente . Buenos Aires: Ediciones Peuser, 1959.

literature

  • Ursula Langkau-Alex: German Popular Front 1932–1939. Between Berlin, Paris, Prague and Moscow. Volume 1: Prehistory and founding of the committee for the preparation of a German popular front . Berlin, Akademie Verlag 2004, p. 34.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Friedhelm Greis, Stefanie Oswalt (Ed.): Make Germany out of Teutschland. A political reader on the "world stage" . Lukas, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-026-9 , p. 518
  2. ↑ Ursula Langkau-Alex: German Popular Front 1932–1939. Between Berlin, Paris, Prague and Moscow. Volume 1, Berlin 2004, p. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Kaminski, Hanns-Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenoir, Noël Pierre (pseudonym); Tann, Max (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Labiau
DATE OF DEATH 1963
Place of death Buenos Aires