Karl Neumann (writer, 1878)

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Karl Neumann (born July 26, 1878 in Nienstedten / Holstein ; † July 15, 1935 in Wetzlar ) was a German writer who published under the pseudonym Max Dortu .

Life

Karl Neumann grew up in northern Germany, but the family emigrated to Italy in 1894, whereby the 16-year-old ran away after stints on Lake Garda and Venice. He then made his way through Europe as a navigator and vagabond until he married in 1906. In 1914 he refused to participate in the First World War , was tried by a court martial and sent to an asylum. The staunch socialist later lived in Wetzlar. His few books are mostly about proletarian work. In 1920 he published numerous poems in the magazine Die Aktion . The pseudonym Max Dortu goes back to the revolutionary Maximilian Dortu who was executed in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1849 and was also used by him in his private sphere. "In his novel Großstadt from 1922, the author almost breaks his nameless main character in the anonymity and hectic pace of the city of Berlin."

Works

  • We men from the quarry. An adventure book for the proletariat. Freedom Publishing Cooperative, Berlin 1921.
  • A colorful proletarian sketchbook . Freedom Publishing Cooperative, Berlin 1921.
  • Thomas Münzer . Lothar Joachim, Leipzig 1922.
  • Men from construction . Lothar Joachim, Leipzig 1922.
  • Big city . Lothar Joachim, Leipzig 1922.
  • The tamed adventurer . Fire publisher. Leipzig

literature

  • Marginalia: magazine for book art and bibliophiles. 1973.
  • Bibliographical calendar sheet of the Berlin City Library. 16. 1974.
  • E. Neiss: The world of work in the German poem.
  • O. Renkhoff: Nassau biography. Volume 100, p. 430.
  • German Literature Archive, Kallias. (numerous letters, etc.)
  • S. Barck (Ed.): Lexicon of socialist literature .. Your history in Germany until 1945.
  • Edda Hilbig: Max Dortu. A forgotten working-class writer. In: Messages from the Wetzlar History Association. 33rd issue. Self-published by the Wetzlarer Geschichtsverein eV, 1988.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wetzlarer-goethe-gesellschaft.de
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dortu, Max (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Nienstedten
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1935
Place of death Wetzlar