Hanns Vogts

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Johannes Joseph Vogts , called Hanns Vogts , pseudonyms : H. de Boer , Georg Kemmel , Joh. Chr. Voigt (born December 2, 1900 in Mönchengladbach ; † June 20, 1976 in Freudenstadt ) was a German writer .

Life

After attending elementary school, Hanns Vogts graduated from the teacher training college in Odenkirchen from 1915 to 1921 . He then worked for a short time as an assistant in a Mönchengladbach company. From 1922 to 1924 he worked as tutor and private secretary for the author Georg Kaiser in Grünheide near Berlin ; from 1924 to 1933 he was a teacher at the secular school in Lintfort / Niederrhein . Since the beginning of the thirties he has been involved in the KPD and contributed to left-wing magazines such as B. Die Linkenkurve and Die neue Bucherschau . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he was dismissed from school in 1933. Vogts fled to the Netherlands , where he went under the name “H. de Boer ”wrote for the anti-fascist magazine Das Freie Wort , published in Amsterdam .

In 1934 Hanns Vogts returned to Germany. He first stayed in Andernach , where he officially lived as an unemployed person, but also carried out various activities. From 1937 to 1939 he was a teacher at a private school in Zarrentin in Mecklenburg and from 1939 at a private commercial college in Calw / Black Forest . In 1941 he became a member of the NSDAP for reasons of camouflage . After being drafted into the Wehrmacht for a short time in 1943, but then released for health reasons, he organized and led a resistance group in Calw . After July 20, 1944 , a complaint was made against Vogts, but this did not result in any criminal prosecution.

After the end of the Second World War , Vogts was a member of the KPD until he left in 1950 and was a member of the city ​​council of Calw . In 1947 Vogts and others founded the Pan-Verlag in Wildbad , for which he also worked as a lecturer . From 1951 he lived as a freelance writer in Freudenstadt . His lawsuit for redress and reinstatement in the civil service was finally rejected in 1959.

Hanns Vogts was the author of books for young people , poems and plays . His extensive estate , which u. a. also includes the unpublished expressionist dramas from the 1920s, is stored in the Mönchengladbach city ​​archive .

Works

  • Eleven boys and a soccer ball , Wildbad 1947
  • And it is evening and morning , Wildbad 1948
  • Robinson am Rhein , Darmstadt 1951
  • And we live on earth , Wildbad in the Black Forest in 1952
  • Start in life , Berlin 1954
  • Tattooed day , Wiesbaden 1970

Editing

literature

  • Vogts, Hanns . In: Lexicon of socialist German literature. From the beginning until 1945. Monographic-biographical accounts . Verlag Sprach und Literatur, Halle (Saale) 1963, pp. 507–508.
  • Claudia Coenes: estate of Hanns Vogt . City Archives Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach 1992.
  • Hans Schürings: "A great hope of German literature". The life path of the writer and educator Hanns Vogts (1900–1976) . In: June. Magazine for literature and culture . Edited on behalf of the Association for the Promotion of Art and Culture in and from the Mönchengladbach Region eV (KUKU). Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 1997, issue 27, pp. 129-140.

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