Herbert Lestiboudois

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Herbert Lestiboudois ( pseudonyms Bert , Udo Herb , Max Friedrich , Peter Purzel , Thesa Pohl , born May 21, 1907 in Hamburg ; † May 25, 1963 in Hamburg) was a German writer and journalist.

Life

The son of a delicatessen seller left secondary school without a degree and went to sea. He then completed an apprenticeship as typesetter and was active in the socialist youth movement. He published before 1933 a. a. literary contributions to the world stage. After the Nazi seizure of power, he first wrote non-political articles and later tried to intellectually infiltrate organs of German fascism through publications. In 1935 he was able to publish two articles in the SS magazine "Das Schwarze Korps". However, he was exposed and interrogated by the Gestapo. Afterwards he could no longer publish until the outbreak of war and worked as a casual worker. During the Second World War he published various satires under a pseudonym, including a. in the simplicissimus. After the war, he intervened, only marginally, in the public controversy about the desired return of Thomas Mann to Germany by presenting his refusal as a regrettable lack of empathy for the “inner emigrants” who remained in Germany. His most successful time as a writer was in the immediate post-war years. He became known with the poem "This is the glory of the soldiers". Because of the alleged vilification of the German soldier, a smear campaign was initiated by the bourgeois and conservative press, which was joined by the CDU, DP and FDP and which culminated in two attacks on his apartment. Lestiboudois, a member of the SPD at the time, left the party disappointed because, from his point of view, it had not supported him during the campaign against him, and at times he approached the KPD. In 1951 he took part in the Starnberg writers' meeting, to which over 50 writers from the GDR and the FRG appeared. In the early fifties he published regularly in left-wing publications, including in the GDR, e.g. B. in the magazine "Heute und Morgen" published by Willi Bredel. He died as a result of a car accident.

Works

  • Then the trumpets are silent , poems, Hamburg 1946.
  • Ninon. From the nocturnal notes of the soldier Cornelius , Hamburg 1946.
  • Chronicle of a rural life , Hamburg 1947.
  • Literary miniatures , Hamburg 1947.
  • My mother was also little people's child , in: Upwards. Youth magazine of the German Trade Union Federation (Brit. Zone), No. 12, vol. 2, June, 1949, p. 6.
  • Wish song of the Germans , poem, in: Heute und Morgen, 1954, H. 9.

literature

  • Portraits of progressive West German writers, in: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, Leipzig 120, 1953, 6, pp. 107-109.
  • Hamburg bibliography. Lexicon of persons. Edited by Franklin Kopitzsch / Dirk Brietzke , Hamburg 2003, p. 248 f.
  • Wagner, H.-U. (2005): Counter-speech. Herbert Lestiboudois answers Wolfgang Borchert's voices in the air. In: Annual issue of the International Wolfgang Borchert Society 17, pp. 22-25.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JF Grosser (ed.): The great controversy. An exchange of letters about Germany, Hamburg / Geneva / Paris 1963, p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Lestiboudois, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bert, Herbert; Herb, Udo; Friedrich, Max; Purzel, Peter; Pohl, Thesa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1963
Place of death Hamburg