Kurt Pinthus

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Kurt Pinthus

Kurt Pinthus (born April 29, 1886 in Erfurt , † July 11, 1975 in Marbach am Neckar ; pseudonym Paulus Potter ) was a German writer and journalist.

Berlin memorial plaque on the house at Heilbronner Strasse 2, in Berlin-Schöneberg

Life

Kurt Pinthus went to the Royal High School in Erfurt . He then studied literary history, philosophy and history at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin , Geneva and Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1910. phil. PhD. As a mediator and pioneer of literary expressionism in Germany, he was in constant contact with authors such as Johannes R. Becher , Gottfried Benn , Max Brod , Theodor Däubler , Albert Ehrenstein , Walter Hasenclever , Kurt Hiller , Franz Kafka , Franz Werfel and Paul Zech . In his function as literary advisor to Rowohlt Verlag and as editor at Kurt Wolff Verlag, he helped many expressionist writers to get their publications published. During the Soviet Republic after World War I , Pinthus was a soldier's council . In 1919/1920 he published the anthology of poems Menschheitsdämmerung , which became a standard literary work and the introduction of which shows the history of the development of literary expressionism.

In the early 1920s Pinthus was dramaturge at the Reinhardt Theaters in Berlin. He then worked as a journalist for several German and international newspapers and magazines. Between 1925 and 1933 he was a broadcaster and member of the literary commission at the Funk-hour Berlin . In 1933 his works were banned by the National Socialists. In 1937 he fled to the USA . From 1938 to 1940 he was a lecturer at the New School for Social Research in New York City , from 1941 to 1947 scientific advisor to the theater collection of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC From 1947 to 1961 Pinthus taught theater history at Columbia University in New York . From 1957 he traveled to Europe several times and decided to return to Germany in 1967. In Marbach am Neckar, where he spent the last years of his life, he worked in the German Literature Archive of the Schiller National Museum . His estate is also looked after there.

Works

  • The cinema book , Leipzig: Wolff, 1914
  • Old-time war adventures , Munich: Georg Müller, 1914
  • German war speeches , Munich, Berlin: Georg Müller, 1916
  • as publisher: Menschheitsdämmerung , Symphony of Recent Poetry , Rowohlt, Berlin 1920; revised edition: Menschheitsdämmerung - A Document of Expressionism , with a significantly expanded bio-bibliographical appendix, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1959ff, ISBN 3-499-45055-0
  • The contemporary , Stuttgart: Klett, 1971

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personal data
SURNAME Pinthus, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Potter, Paulus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1975
Place of death Marbach am Neckar