Komakichi Nohara

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Komakichi Nohara ( Japanese 野 原 駒 吉 , Nohara Komakichi ; also: Wilhelm Koma Nohara , Wilhelm Komakichi von Nohara ; born June 4, 1899 in Yokohama ; † September 26, 1950 in Berlin ) was a Japanese - German writer .

Life

Komakichi Nohara was the son of a Japanese father and a German mother. From 1920 to 1921 studied it art history at the University of Berlin . He then lived as a freelance writer in Berlin . According to Wolfgang Harich , he was a member of the League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers in the 1920s . Since he was married to a Latvian Jew, he had to save them, so Harich, employees at the Japanese embassy in Berlin has become. There he acted as a speechwriter for the Ambassador Oshima and as an interpreter for military discussions between the Wehrmacht leadership and the Japanese military leadership, under the direction of Admiral Nomura , in Berlin. Usually he interpreted between Nomura on the one hand and Karl Dönitz and Erich Raeder on the other. He passed on his findings to anti-fascist circles in Sweden during the Second World War . In 1944 he moved to Strausberg , from where he delivered his material. After that he lived in Moscow for a year . After the war he lived in Jüterbog and for the last few years in Berlin (West).

Komakichi Nohara, who wrote in German , was the author of books for young people , travelogues and political writings. His work The True Face of Japan has also been translated into several languages.

Works

  • My holiday book , Leipzig 1929 (together with Wolf Durian )
  • Theo struggles through! , Leipzig 1930
  • Hans and Kathrin discover Berlin , Leipzig 1931
  • The night on the Lummenfelsen , Leipzig 1932
  • You have to scratch your fingers, Kathe! , Leipzig 1933
  • Erwin in Shanghai , Leipzig 1934
  • Don Hans from the wild riders , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1935
  • The diver Ali , Berlin 1935
  • The true face of Japan , Dresden 1935
  • The "yellow danger" , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1936
  • "Johann! The chicken for Napoleon!" , Freiburg 1937
  • Brazil day and night , Berlin 1938
  • Three sisters go to Tokyo , Berlin [a. a.] 1938
  • Men of the desert , Freiburg 1938
  • Smuggler in the Haff , Berlin [a. a.] 1940
  • The secret of the pirate island , Augsburg 1952

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Hartmann: Japanese students at the Berlin University 1920-1945. Berlin 2003, p. 100.
  2. ^ Siegfried Prokop: I was born too early. In the footsteps of Wolfgang Harich . Dietz, Berlin 1997, pp. 20f .; Prokop reproduces a conversation with Harich here.
personal data
SURNAME Nohara, Komakichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 野 原 駒 吉 (Japanese); Nohara, Wilhelm Koma; Nohara, Wilhelm Komakichi from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Yokohama
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1950
Place of death Berlin