Karl Grünberg (writer)

Karl Grünberg (left) signs books at the Berlin Writers' Bazaar in 1954

Karl Grünberg (born November 5, 1891 in Berlin , † February 1, 1972 in Berlin-Grünau ) was a German communist writer and journalist .

Life

Karl Grünberg joined the SPD in 1911, switched to the USPD in 1919 and finally to the KPD in 1920. He was a co-founder of the League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers (1928–1935). Grünberg was one of the authors whose works were thrown into the flames in the book burning organized by the Nazis on May 10, 1933 . After 1933 Grünberg participated in the communist resistance against National Socialism and was temporarily imprisoned in the Sonnenburg concentration camp . From 1936 he worked as a chemical technician at Schering AG in Berlin. From 1943 to 1945 he served in the air raid police in Essen and Berlin.

In the last days of April 1945, he and others founded the “People's Committee Berlin-Pankow”. This committee wrote the first appeal to the residents of the Berlin-Pankow district on May 2, 1945. Immediately after the end of the war, Karl Grünberg took over the rebuilding of the Pankow judiciary for a few months. For several years he was the editor of the SMAD newspaper Daily Rundschau . Then he worked again as a freelance writer.

Works

• The socialist people's armed forces , 1919
• Burning Ruhr , novel from the time of the Kapp Putsch and the Ruhr uprising , 1928 ( E-Text )
• The Moloch , novel, 1931
  • second version: Gloria Victoria , 1960
• The shadow quartet , autobiographical novel, 1948
• Hitler Youth Burscheidt , 1948
• The Escape from Eden , 1949
• The steel flows golden , play, 1950
• Heroes of work. From the life and work of the heroes of our time , 1951 (including: Hans Garbe - The man in the fiery furnace )
• It started in Eden , 1951/1953
• Episodes. Experience reports from six decades of the struggle for socialism , 1960
• In slow motion through the Weimar Republic , 1960
• The gold treasure in the taiga , 1961
• The Faithful from Galgenberg , 1965
• From the taiga to the Caucasus. Experiences from the twenties and later , 1970 (later under the title Between Taiga and Caucasus )
• How I saw it , short stories, 1972

literature

• Oliver Kersten: The Friends of Nature movement in the Berlin-Brandenburg region 1908–1989 / 90. Continuities and breaks. Berlin 2007 (additional dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin 2004) (Naturfreunde-Verlag Freizeit und Wander), pp. 49 f., 305; ISBN 978-3-925311-31-4 .
• Volker Weidermann : The book of burned books . Cologne: Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008; ISBN 978-3-462-03962-7 . (On Grünberg, pages 123–125)
• Karl Grünberg , in: Richard Drews / Alfred Kantorowicz (eds.), Banned and burned. German literature - suppressed for 12 years , Berlin and Munich: Heinz Ullstein - Helmut Kindler Verlag, 1947, p. 53.
• Paul Sielaff: Karl Grünberg and the Ruhr area . The coal pot in proletarian literature, RotFuchs June 2010, p. 24
• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Grünberg, Karl . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Karl Grünberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Karl Grünberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karl Grünberg Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin