Kurt Herwarth Ball

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Kurt Herwarth Ball (born September 7, 1903 in Berlin , † April 24, 1977 in Leipzig ), pseudonyms Jochim Dreetz and Hanns Tedesko , was a German writer .

Life

After the First World War, the worker's son Kurt Herwarth Ball performed various activities, including as a worker in a wood tar factory and as a stoker in a Berlin residential complex. Then his parents moved to Angermünde, where he also worked in agriculture. As early as the 1920s, he was active in literature with articles and stories for newspapers and magazines. After he had written the accompanying text for several illustrated books during this time, his first independent novel, Feud on Iceland , was published in 1930 , in which he took up old Icelandic myths.

In 1930 Kurt Herwarth Ball moved to Leipzig, where he lived at Mühligstrasse 3. During this time he had long been an enthusiastic supporter of National Socialism . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP . In Leipzig he apparently also got to know the well-known anti-Semite Theodor Fritsch , who had been publishing the Hammer magazine since 1902 , and became his colleague. After the death of Fritsch he led the magazine completely in his anti-Semitic meaning further than chief editor from 1932 to 1935. Ball worked as an undercover agent of the SD operates. In 1936, the "Reichssender Leipzig" praised Ball "Martial arts of the Nordic spirit". During this time Ball was also the author of the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps and other Nazi magazines.

After the Second World War , Ball's writings Die Ways der Wolfsöhne (Limpert, Berlin 1938), Spuk an der Oder (Schmidt & Spring, Leipzig 1938) and Der blinde Bauer ( Ludendorff , Munich 1939) were on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone set.

Ball adapted in the post-war period. He joined the NDPD in 1949 , was a city district councilor in Leipzig-West and in 1952 secretary of the Leipzig Writers' Association. However, he had to resign in 1957. From 1945 he worked for a few years as an unskilled worker in a Leipzig steel foundry. He processed his experiences there, entirely in the "sense of socialist realism", in the book Halle zwo , published in 1949 . He then worked for a long time in the editorial team of the Leipziger Volkszeitung , was editor-in-chief of the Leipziger Supplement of the National-Zeitung from 1949 to 1952 and published several entertaining novels and stories, most of which dealt with everyday problems in the propagated building of socialism . Together with Lothar Weise he wrote several titles from the science fiction genre.

When the GDR Ministry of the Interior closed the "Ball" file in 1950, the head of the local Leipzig police department, which was responsible for the persecution of National Socialists (K5), was surprised and said that Ball had one for his SD activities instead earned several years in prison.

Commitment to book burning

The German student body , DSt, commented on the book burning as part of the campaign against the un-German spirit in April and May 1933 in his appeal "German", which the DSt distributed throughout the Reich in its "article service". In it, Ball propagates the "12 theses against the un-German spirit", which were posted in universities on April 12, 1933 as a prelude:

“And then there has to be something else, this one that the German student body started: The fight against the subhumanity of foreigners. If we want to redesign and preserve the soul of the German people into a blazing flame, then we confidently take hold of the hands that hold out the 12 theses of the German student body to us. Twelve times this hard will of the young sex: 'German!' Twelve times the very strong, blood-like, down-to-earth call: 'German!' And this call from students, from a young generation who got to know hard must as a student trainee in the starving years, as a military student in dishonorable years. Let us close the ranks of the German people who are fighting for the future in politics, business, science and literature, in all art, we stand together, a new front that marches inexorably, whose call is only one word: Germany ! "

The five regional magazines Fränkischer Kurier, Würzburger Generalanzeiger, Fränkisches Volksblatt, Neue Bayerische Landeszeitung and Fränkisches Volk were compelled by a letter from the DSt to print the entire article Ball on the same day, April 22nd, and followed this request. Munich newspapers were also asked to do so.

Awards

Works

  • Feud on Island Berlin around 1930
  • The Jomsburg Vikings , 1936
  • Germanic storm surge , 1936
  • Blue light on the Swedish Tower , 1937
  • Three people and a yard , 1937
  • The daughter , 1937
  • Egil, Fighter and Skald , 1937
  • The Paths of the Wolf Sons , 1938
  • The Zabern peasant murder , 1938
  • Spook on the Oder , 1938
  • The blind farmer , 1939
  • The Jomsburg Vikings , 1941
  • De three Kiezelsteenen. A Sprookje for great people. Dutch, transl. Martien Beversluis. Westland, Amsterdam 1942
  • Harvest , 1944
  • Hall two , 1949
  • Schandau novella , 1952
  • Why is Anna Kersten silent? , 1954
  • Written on the weekend , 1955
  • Who Called Raid 01? , 1955, published in “ The New Adventure ” 65
  • Deal with Barbara , 1956
  • A harmless vacationer . 1956
  • ... goes to Port Said , 1957
  • Special order , 1957
  • Love pink. Little Town Novel , 1957
  • Alarm on station Einstein , 1957 with Lothar Weise , published in "Das neue Abenteuer" 119 & 120
  • Kathrin Wenzel , 1958
  • Signals from Venus , 1958 with Lothar Weise, appeared in “The New Adventure” 134
  • Brand im Mondobservatorium , 1959 with Lothar Weise, published in “Das neue Abenteuer” 161
  • Nuclear fire over the Pacific , 1959 with Lothar Weise, published in “ Excitingly told ” 31
  • Like you and me , 1959
  • Pardoned by our time , 1959
  • Master Annette , 1960
  • The Dragon Collection , 1961
  • Majoll in the Labyrinth , 1961
  • Murder without a trace , 1963
  • Günter and Christiane , 1964
  • Alarm at the bridge , 1965
  • The following summer , 1966
  • Doctor scandal , 1966
  • The glacier is coming , 1966
  • Im Eis des Komet , 1968 with Lothar Weise, published in “The New Adventure” 270
  • Who sent Maria Z.? , 1972
  • In the hurricane off Kamchatka , 1973
  • Dangerous solo effort , 1975
  • Miracles don't happen every day , 1976
  • A life later , 1978

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ-Biographie , Bonn / Berlin 1964, p. 22f.
  • Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 27.
  • Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 10.
  • Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR - Nazis in the GDR . Elisabeth Reichmann Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-923137-00-1 , pp. 141f.
  • Hartmut Mechtel : Kurt Herwarth Ball. In: Erik Simon , Olaf R. Spittel (ed.): The science fiction of the GDR. Authors and works. A lexicon. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 , p. 101 f.
  • Freya Leinemann: First right, then left. How the Leipzig writer Kurt Herwarth Ball wrote German history. In: From the author to the censorship file. Adventure in reading country GDR. Ed. Siegfried Lokatis, Theresia Rost, Grit Steuer. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2014 ISBN 9783954621101 pp. 93-103.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Rusch: Kurt Herwarth Ball . In: Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels (Leipzig) 6/1953, p. 520.
  2. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1937/38, Col. 22.
  3. ^ Carsten Schreiber: Elite im Verborgenen , Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, p. 15
  4. ↑ Freya Leinemann: First right, then left. How the Leipzig writer Kurt Herwarth Ball wrote German history. In: From the author to the censorship file. Adventure in reading country GDR. Ed. Siegfried Lokatis, Theresia Rost, Grit Steuer. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2014, p. 96.
  5. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out . Berlin: Zentralverlag, 1946; accessed on January 11, 2017.
  6. ^ Carsten Schreiber: Elite in Hidden. Ideology and regional domination practice of the security service of the SS and its network using the example of Saxony. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008 ISBN 3486585436 p. 366
  7. ↑ quoted from: The Burning of Books. Edited by Gerhard Sauder. Ullstein, Frankfurt 1985, p. 86. Also in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , VfZ, 1968, no. 4, p. 354 online (PDF; 5.8 MB). Blocking in the orig.
  8. ↑ quoted from: The Burning of Books. Edited by Gerhard Sauder. Ullstein, Frankfurt 1985, p. 86. Also in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , VfZ, 1968, no. 4, p. 361 online (PDF; 5.8 MB). Blocking in the orig.
  9. ↑ Karl-Heinz Schubert: Facts that left-wing people cannot ignore . Braunbuch DDR, accessed on January 11, 2017.
  10. ↑ The Blind Farmer on archive.org, accessed on January 11, 2017.
  11. ↑ German according to DNB: Three pebbles on one path, it cannot be proven that actually appeared in German. The Dutch publishing house was a company owned by the German occupiers.
personal data
SURNAME Ball, Kurt Herwarth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreetz, Joachim (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1977
Place of death Leipzig