Klaus Neukrantz

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Klaus Neukrantz (born May 27, 1897 in Berlin , † after 1941 ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Klaus Neukrantz grew up in a middle-class family and joined the youth movement . In 1914 he volunteered as a war volunteer . Four and a half years of trenches followed. In 1919, on the day of his discharge from the military, he met Hugo Haase in Königsberg , who introduced him to the values ​​of the labor movement . Back in Berlin, this led to a break with his family. He was politically active as a member of the opposition works council in the Kreuzberg district office . He joined the KPD in 1923 and from 1924 wrote for Welt am Abend , Die Rote Fahne , Arbeiter-Sender and Die Linkskurve . Die Linkskurve was the magazine of the Association of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers , of which he was a member from 1928 to 1935.

He is considered a pioneer in the use of broadcasting as an instrument of political education. In the magazine of the Arbeiter-Radio-Klub in 1926 he called for a "truly democratic handling of radio ..." so that "the most important contemporary world views and directions can find the modern catheter of our time while maintaining a natural objectivity in radio".

His best known work is Barrikaden am Wedding (1931). Here he describes the events of the Blutmai 1929 in Berlin in a reportage-like manner with documents . The book was banned immediately after its publication.

After the Nazis came to power , Neukrantz was arrested and mistreated and later taken to a psychiatric institution. There his traces are lost. The date of his death is unknown.

reception

In Peter Weiss 'main work The Aesthetics of Resistance , Neukrantz' book Barricades am Wedding is extensively recognized. The first-person narrator contrasts Franz Kafka's novel Das Schloss and reflects extensively on the potential value of both works for the labor movement.

Works

  • For your two marks? Clarification about today's radio program . Berlin 1932

literature

  • Neukrantz, Klaus . In: Lexicon of socialist German literature . Leipzig 1964, pp. 388-390 with bibliography, p. 390.
  • Peter Weiss : The notebooks . Critical complete edition. Edited by Jürgen Schulte in collaboration with Wiebke Amthor and Jenny Willner. Digital library. Berlin: Directmedia Publishing, 2005, p. 17.037. ISBN 978-3-89853-549-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Neukrantz: Democratization of broadcasting . In: Der Neue Rundfunk. Radio magazine of the creative people. Vol. 1 (1926), No. 26, p. 843. Quoted from Klingsporn 1988, p. 79.