Max Schröder (journalist)
Max Robert Paul Schröder (born April 16, 1900 in Lübeck , † January 14, 1958 in East Berlin ) was a German journalist and editor.
Life
Max Schröder came from a middle-class background as the son of a lawyer. After high school and military service in 1918, he studied art history and classical philology in Rostock , Freiburg, Munich, Berlin and Göttingen from May 1918 to 1924 . In 1932 he joined the KPD . He emigrated to France in 1933 and lived in Paris . He worked on the Brown Book against the Reichstag Fire Trial and on the German Freedom Library . From 1936 to 1939 he was managing director of "Deutsche Informations" ("Nouvelles d 'Allemagne"). With the beginning of the Second World War he was interned in France and Morocco. In 1941 he was able to flee from Marseille to the USA . Schröder lived in New York from 1941 to 1946 and was anonymous editor-in-chief of The German-American magazine . In 1945 he married the American journalist Edith Anderson . He returned to Germany in 1946 and lived in Berlin. In 1947 his wife followed him to Berlin. He joined the SED in 1947 and in the same year became chief editor of the Berlin publishing house . As a member of the publishing house, Schröder was an influential mediator of exile literature , prepared the publication of classic editions and significantly shaped the profile of Aufbau Verlag. In 1956 Schröder became a member of the German PEN Center East a. West. In 1957 he received the Lessing Prize of the GDR .
His urn was buried in the grave complex for the victims and persecuted of the Nazi regime in the Berlin central cemetery Friedrichsfelde .
Fonts
- From here and now , Berlin: set up in 1957
literature
- Edith Anderson: Love in Exile. An American writer's memories of life in post-war Berlin . Edited by Cornelia Schroeder, translated by Christa and Clemens Tragelehn, Berlin 2007 (autobiography of his wife)
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Schroeder, Max (originally Schröder) . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Max Schroeder in memory , Berlin: set up in 1958
- Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 (= International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 ). Volume 1, Munich: Saur 1980 ISBN 3-598-10087-6
Web links
- Biography in the DRAFD Wiki
- Max Schroeder Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schröder, Max Robert Paul (full name); Schroeder, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1958 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |