Heinz Stroh (Author)

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Heinz Stroh (born 1899 ; died February 10, 1952 in Nuremberg ) was a German journalist and writer.

Life

Heinz Stroh was a literary and theater critic for the Berliner Börsenzeitung between 1924 and 1933 , and Thomas Mann returned the favor in 1926 for friendly reviews from him with a signed portrait photograph.

After seizing power in 1933, Stroh first fled to Prague , where he published in the magazine Selbstwehr , in the Jewish Revue and in the Jewish Almanac (1937). Thomas Mann stood up for him as a capable, careful and versatile writer and gave him an interview during his stay in Prague in 1934, but did not agree to its reproduction because the interview was used against him in Mann's expatriation proceedings. In 1939 Stroh had to flee to London , where he was bombed out in a German air raid and interned for some time in 1940 as an enemy foreigner . In 1945 he returned to Germany as a member of the Allied forces. He stayed in Germany, became a newspaper editor in Nuremberg and again published the booklet with the childhood novels. In Nuremberg he tried to give cultural life a new accent by founding a Thomas Mann Society. Thomas Mann visited him there on August 4, 1949.

Apart from his publications, Heinz Stroh left only a few traces. The German National Library has a so-called “splinter estate” in the German Exile Archive.

Stroh was a member of the PEN Center for Writers in Exile in German-speaking countries .

Fonts (selection)

  • Ed .: The lonely. Childhood novella. Weismann, Munich 1947, first: 1921. With contributions by Hermann Hesse , Ossip Dymov , Fjodor Sologub , Stefan Zweig , Josef Mühlberger , Adolf von Hatzfeld , and Robert Musil
  • Thirteen short stories. Drei-Fichten-Verlag, Munich 1946.
  • The great European Edvard Beneš. A biography. Kittl, Mährisch-Ostrau 1938 (1935).
  • A dream life! Alweiss, Berlin 1927.
  • Completion. Novelist. Study. S. Alweiss, Berlin 1926.
  • Commitment to Alva: two essays. Israel 195x, OCLC 502071479 .
  • Arnold Zweig , called Shadows. With an afterword by Heinz Stroh, Universal-Bibliothek. 6711. Leipzig 1926.

literature

  • Heinz J. Armbrust, Gert Heine, Who is who in Thomas Mann's life? A dictionary of persons. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-465-03558-9 .
  • Literary Landmarks of 1952 . In: Books Abroad . tape 27 , no. 2 , 1953, ISSN  0006-7431 , p. 138–142 , JSTOR : 40091788 (English, A Necrology: Todesnachricht): “Heinz Stroh, German journalist, author and drama critic, Nuremberg, February 10”

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jewish Almanac for the year 5698 (1937/38).
  2. ↑ Jörg Thunecke: German-speaking Exillyric from 1933 to the post-war period. Rodopi, Amsterdam 1998, ISBN 90-420-0574-2 , p. 226.
  3. ^ Preliminary skirmish of the visit by the Lord Mayor of Nuremberg, Otto Ziebill In: Der Spiegel . June 9, 1949 ( spiegel.de )
personal data
SURNAME Straw, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1952
Place of death Nuremberg