Jonny Rieger

Jonny G. Rieger , actually Paul Karl Gerhard Rieger , pseudonym Wolf Harten (born 1908 in Berlin ; died April 1, 1985 in Denmark ) was a German writer .

Life

Paul Karl Gerhard Rieger, born in Wedding in 1908, completed an apprenticeship as a chaser and then went rolling . He won a trip around the world advertised by the Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he emigrated and came to Denmark in 1934. After the German occupation of Denmark, he was drafted into the army in 1942. In 1944 he deserted on a home leave and saw the end of the war in Sweden.

One of his best-known works is A Balcony Over Lake Maggiore. Ticino travel guide from 1957.

Rieger belonged to the brotherhood of vagabonds around Gregor Gog .

Gregor Gog writes about him:

He was a poor eater of tramps who never know in the morning where the night to come will hide him. Law was to him a piece of bread for the day; by the way: eyes open! Turn the days over like the pages of a book and not lose a word of what life writes into this book every day. The earth was beautiful! And life was beautiful! But people lived in it like madmen in an asylum. Who - everyone? Who were the architects of this insane asylum? The same ones that hundreds of thousands and millions of people spit on the street like - like snot? Open your eyes, Jonny! You have to find out! He was young, in his early twenties; we had met three times since then. The greedy eyes said, "I'll eat you." But that wasn't meant too badly. The one who sat in front of me once and twice could still laugh like a boy. Instead of bread, he carried poems in his coat pocket. Words and sentences were there that knocked like bright hammer blows on a locked gate: "Open!"

The estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

Works

• Fire in the east. Zurich 1935. Gutenberg Book Guild.
• Go to hell, Jonny! Novel. Zurich 1936. Gutenberg Book Guild.
• Shanghai saknar all rättfärdighet (Shanghai knows no justice) Roman. Stockholm, Universal Press, 1938 (not published in German).
• De Överlevande. (The survivors) novel. Stockholm 1945. (Not published in German)
• Tropical freight. Novel. Zurich 1946
• Travel bug. Travel book. Zurich 1948.
• Jamen - du ler jo ikke (But - you don't laugh) Roman. Copenhagen 1953. (Not published in German)
• Greed and longing - capitalized. Novel. Stuttgart 1955. (Written in Danish. The original title: We meet in No Man's Land has been changed by the publisher.)
• Travel to gods and people. Travel book. Hamburg 1955. (Revised version of Reisefieber.)
• We saw moon over Surabaya. Novel. Stuttgart 1958.
• A balcony over Lake Maggiore. Ticino travel seduction book. Stuttgart 1957
• Kitagawa Utamaro, Sericulture - a women's profession. Zurich 1962. (Facsimile edition of a Japanese woodcut series of 12 sheets).
• My life is mine. Autobiographical novel. Stuttgart 1963. (Extended version of Greed and Longing - capitalized .)

literature

• Klaus Trappmann : Country road, customers, vagabonds. Gregor Gog's League of the Homeless . Berlin: Gerhardt Verlag 1980
• Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Ed.): Residence: Nowhere: Pictures, photos, documents of life and survival on the street . Exhibition catalog. 12 pages. Berlin 1982
• Klaus Schulte: Jonny Rieger (1908–1985). Writer , in: Willy Dähnhardt ; Birgit S. Nielsen (Ed.): Exile in Denmark: German-speaking scientists, artists and writers in Danish exile after 1933 , Heide: Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, 1993 ISBN 3-8042-0569-0 , pp. 625–654

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gregor Gog: Jonny. From: "League of the Homeless", Moscow 1936/37; reprinted in: Trappmann, Klaus: Landstrasse, customers, vagabonds. Gregor Gog's League of the Homeless. Berlin: Gerhardt Verlag 1980
2. ↑ Document of the Jonny Rieger estate in the German Literature Archive Marbach