Max Barth (journalist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Max Barth ( pseudonyms including: Bufti , Mufti ; born January 22, 1896 in Waldkirch ; † July 15, 1970 ibid) was a German political journalist .

Life

After secondary school , he attended the Karlsruhe teachers' seminar . During the First World War he fought in Belgium , France , Poland and Romania . Then he was an elementary school teacher for three years .

From 1922 Barth worked as a freelance author and journalist. His first publications appeared in early 1924 in the “ Sonntags-Zeitung ” in Stuttgart . In the same year the publicist Erich Schairer (1887-1956), who had founded this pacifist-radical-democratic newspaper in 1920, brought him into the editorial office and Barth became one of the most productive and versatile employees under numerous pseudonyms.

In August 1932, however, he was dismissed because of political differences. Barth founded his own small weekly newspaper ("Die Direction"). Because of the threat of arrest for "high treason" - Barth had called for a general strike in his newspaper to ward off National Socialism - he fled to Switzerland in early March 1933 . This began a 17-year exile that led Barth around the world - to France (1933 and 1935) and Spain (1934), to Czechoslovakia (1935), to Norway (1938), Sweden (1940) and finally to the USA (1941).

In 1950 he returned to Germany and initially lived in Stuttgart . Two years later (1952) he moved to his birthplace Waldkirch, where he "lived to the end" - disappointed with the political developments and his own "superfluity " .

Works

  • Kabif [pseudonyms: Mufti, Bufti]. Poems. Stuttgart: Verlag der "Sonntags-Zeitung" 1930.
  • The Rubaijat of Omar Khaijam . Frankfurt: European Publishing House 1963.
  • The night of the emperor. The Lord of the Empire . Waldkirch: private print 1964.
  • A strange dog . Waldkirch: private print 1964.
  • The red stone and other stories . Waldkirch: private print 1966.
  • Hellentorer Chronicle . Waldkirch: private printing no year
  • Track in the shore sand. A selection from the factory . Waldkirch: Waldkircher Verlag 1971.
  • Escape to the world. Exile memories 1933-1950. Edited by Manfred Bosch . Waldkircher Verlag, Waldkirch 1986.
  • Praise the dialect. Waldkirch idioms . Texts and poems. Waldkirch: Waldkircher Verlag 1986.
  • From the island book. Waldkircher reprint. An almanac. Waldkirch: Waldkircher Verlag 1989.

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Barth, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bufti (pseudonym); Mufti (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldkirch
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1970
Place of death Waldkirch