Karl Schnog

Karl Schnog ( pseudonyms : Anton Emerenzer , Carl Coblentz , Ernst Huth , Kornschlag , Tom Palmer , Charly vom Thurm ; born June 14, 1897 in Cologne , † August 23, 1964 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Karl Schnog was the son of a craftsman . After attending primary school , he completed a commercial apprenticeship . He took as a soldier in the First World War, in part, dedicated in 1918 in a workers' and soldiers . After the end of the war he took language and acting lessons and then appeared as an actor and emcee at various theaters and literary cabarets in Berlin and other cities; he worked u. a. with Erwin Piscator and Erich Weinert . From 1925 Schnog was free writer and from 1927 spokesman in broadcasting . He wrote radio plays and provided articles for the satirical magazine " Lachen links " , which is closely related to the SPD , and for the Münzenbergs " Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung ".

After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, Karl Schnog fled abroad. He first went to Switzerland and finally came to Luxembourg via France in October 1933 . In the following years he worked there for various Luxembourg newspapers and organs of the German exile press, such as " Deutsche Freiheit " and " Neuen Vorwärts ". Schnog, whose German citizenship had been revoked in 1936 , tried in vain to emigrate to the United States . After the invasion of the Wehrmacht in Luxembourg, he was in May 1940 by the Gestapo arrested. As a prisoner, he went through the Dachau , Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald concentration camps . After his liberation, he returned to Luxembourg in 1945, where he worked for the UN broadcaster . In 1946 he went to the Soviet Zone . There he worked as editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine " Ulenspiegel ". He joined the SED and was an editor at Berliner Rundfunk from 1948 to 1951 . He then lived again as a freelance writer in East Berlin .

Karl Schnog was the author of short stories , satires , poems , plays and cabaret texts. As a radio play author, he was one of the pioneers of this genre in Germany in the 1920s . Schnog received in 1957 the East German Heinrich Heine Prize and the Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in silver.

Gezumpel , published by Leon Hirsch , Berlin-Schöneberg 1925
Chin hook , Luxembourg 1934
La Grande Compagnie de Colonization , Luxembourg 1937 (under the name Tom Palmer)
Unknown concentration camp , Luxembourg 1945
Each to his own , Berlin 1947
Zeitgedichte - contemporary history from 1925 to 1950 , Berlin 1949
Charlie Chaplin , Berlin 1960

Volker Kühn: Schnog, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 340 f. ( Digitized version ).
Schnog, Karl. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 .
Rolf Tauscher: Literary satire of exile against National Socialism and Hitler Germany . Hamburg 1992, pp. 57-66 (on Kinnhaken. Kampfgedichte 1933/34 )

personal data
SURNAME	Schnog, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Emerenzer, Anton; Coblentz, Carl; Huth, Ernst; Kornschlag; Palmer, Tom; Thurm, Charly vom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 14, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	23rd August 1964
Place of death	Berlin