Hardy worm

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Hardy Worm , actually Eberhard Friedrich Worm (born February 8, 1896 in Berlin , † August 29, 1973 in Berlin) was a left-wing journalist, satirist and publisher, especially in the Weimar Republic . After the Second World War he published detective novels under a pseudonym .

Life

Hardy Worm was born in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . During the First World War he was an observer and student pilot on the Naval Aviation Station List on Sylt and was elected to the soldiers' council at the end of the war . After the November Revolution he agitated for the Spartakusbund and was imprisoned in Moabit prison for 6 months . Here he wrote prose and poems about his mother, which appeared in the newspaper Revolution (Vienna) and the USPD- Illustrated Free World . His cell mate Karl Radek shaped his worldview.

In 1921 he worked under Heinrich Wandt for the Free Press in Berlin. In his satirical newspaper Harakiri , articles by Oskar Kanehl , Raoul Hausmann , Hugo Kersten , Max Herrmann-Neisse , Johannes Baader and Bertolt Brecht have appeared . At the time when his book The brothel banned and he was sentenced to a fine, he saw himself as a Dadaist .

For the short-lived magazine Welt am Sonntag he won over authors like Ossietzky , Kurt Hiller , Helene Stöcker , Armin T. Wegner , Emil Julius Gumbel and Tucholsky . Worm founded the cabaret Die Rote Nachtigall , was a KPD member for a short time (article in Die Rote Fahne ) and published court reports.

For several years he worked as editor of the Berliner Volkszeitung of the Mosse group under Otto Nuschke and used a variety of pseudonyms during that time. He wrote texts for the cabaret Wespen ( Leon Hirsch , Erich Weinert and others).

1931 to February 1933 Worm was editor-in-chief of the satirical newspaper Die Ente by publisher Bernhard Gröttrup (Auffenberg-Verlag), which was then banned. Main authors were Elisabeth Castonier , Weinert, Roda Roda , Erich Mühsam , Stefan Heym .

Worm went into exile in Paris and published articles and a detective novel in the émigré press. He took part in the Comintern's committee for the preparation of a German Popular Front in February 1936 and its congress. With the conquest of France in the western campaign in 1940 by German troops, Worm went to London, where he lived until 1945. After the war he wrote in Vienna as a journalist for Neues Österreich and later, until bankruptcy, as editor-in-chief for Mein Film . Under the pseudonym Ferry Rocker, he published some detective novels that have been translated into several languages. Three more books appeared posthumously in the GDR .

Works (selection)

  • Guntermann, Georg: Dada portfolio Berlin 1920/21: five rarities, one rarity and an essay on the subject . (Series: Testimonies of the Twentieth Century). Bonn. Nenzel. 1995:
    • Fried Hardy Worm: The brothel: a grotesque publication . Title page Ludwig Wronkow . 1921
    • Worm, Fried-Hardy: A Family Drama (1920)
    • Worm, Fried-Hardy: Harakiri !? : a grotesque publication (1920)
    • Worm, Fried-Hardy: Harakiri: Zeitschrift der Grotesken, 1 (1920)
  • Rocker, Ferry: The Green Arrow . Leipzig: Sachsenbuch, 1991 (first 1933)
  • Rocker, Ferry: Kensington Murder . Munich: Goldmann, 1953
  • Rocker, Ferry: On a foggy night . Munich: Goldmann, 1953
  • Rocker, Ferry: The Secret of the Tower . Munich: Goldmann, 1953
  • Rocker, Ferry: John Kennedy's Guests . Munich: Goldmann, 1953
  • Worm, Hardy: The Song of Songs from the Nepp . Buchverlag Der Morgen. Berlin. 1978
  • Worm, Hardy: Around Alexanderplatz . Berlin: Verl. Tribüne, 1981
  • Worm, Hardy: Forays of an ironic . Berlin: Verl. Tribüne, 1982
  • Rocker, Ferry: Marie Antoinette The ordeal of a queen . Vienna, Wiener Verlag, 1948

literature

  • Volker Kühn (Ed.): Germany's Awakening: Cabaret under the swastika; 1933-1945 . Volume 3. Weinheim: Quadriga, 1989 ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 388 (short biography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Goldmann (Hrsg.): Lexicon of Goldmann pocket books . tape 1000 . Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1963, p. 262 .
personal data
SURNAME Worm, Hardy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Worm, Eberhard Friedrich (real name); Worm, Fried-Hardy; Rocker, Ferry (pseudonym); Harlander, Ossip (pseudonym); Merrit, Lo (pseudonym); Orje (pseudonym); Orje from Seestrasse (pseudonym); Ripper, Frank (pseudonym); Nick, Pick (pseudonym); Flipp, Paddy (pseudonym); flipp flapp (pseudonym); Störtebecker, Klaus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Journalist and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 29th August 1973
Place of death Berlin