Manes Kadow

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Manes Kadow , actually Hermann Kadow (* 1905 in Beuel , † 1960 in Bonn ; pseudonyms Peter Bevelius , May Okay ) was a German journalist and playwright .

Life and activity

Kadow came from the Catholic youth movement . He has been writing tragicomic stage plays for them since the late 1920s, for example the work Vom Teufel staged , which first appeared in 1931. In 1946, according to Der Spiegel , he brought it up to date with human progress by including atomic bombs and bacterial projectiles.

After the Second World War , Kadow became editor at Rheinischer Merkur and manager of Südwestfunk . He also wrote for the Frankfurter Rundschau .

Fonts

  • Saint Nicholas you the robbers. A rowdy game for people and dolls. Bühnenvolksbundverlag, Berlin 1928. (New edition 1946)
  • Future hype. A topical-technical grotesque. Bühnenvolksbundverlag, Berlin 1930. (New edition 1947)
  • Pontius Pilate, procurator. Bühnenvolksbundverlag, Berlin 1932. (New editions 1947 and 1951)
  • The Devil's Cabaret. Bühnenvolksbundverlag, Berlin 1932. (New edition 1946 and 1953)
  • To the German people's theater. Bonn 1946.
  • The ghost on the night editorial office. Buchner, Munich 1946.
  • Around Oberammergau. Stuttgart-Rohr 1947.
  • The saint and the machine. Bonn 1947
  • The bridge man speaks. Bonn 1947.
  • Prayer book for city dwellers. Düsseldorf 1951.
  • The incredulous Thomas. German amateur play publisher, Rotenburg a. d. Fulda 1952.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There were only three left. In: Der Spiegel . February 21, 1948. Retrieved April 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kadow, Manes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kadow, Hermann; Bevelius, Peter (pseudonym); Okay, May (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Bump
DATE OF DEATH 1960
Place of death Bonn