Maximilian Scheer

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Maximilian Scheer (born April 22, 1896 as Walter Schlieper in Haan , Rhineland , † February 3, 1978 in East Berlin ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Maximilian Scheer was the son of a blacksmith and a farmer's wife. After attending elementary school , he carried out various activities, especially as an office worker. After briefly taking part in the First World War as a soldier , he was a. a. In a leading position in a steelworks in the Ruhr area , as an office manager of a metal goods store in Cologne and in the late 1920s in the management of a Soviet export company in Germany. Scheer attended lectures in ethnology , theater studies and literary history as a guest student at the University of Cologne . He was a co-founder of the literary association “ Oktobergruppe ” and provided journalistic articles and theater reviews for various German newspapers such as the Berliner Börsen-Courier . After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he emigrated in March 1933 after Paris .

In France, Schlieper / Scheer adopted the pseudonym Maximilian Scheer. From 1933 to 1936 Scheer worked in Paris for the press agency INPRESS, which was also founded by Sándor Radó , who had also emigrated, and contributed to the exiled newspapers “Neue Weltbühne”, the French edition of the “ Counterattack ”, which originally only appeared in Prague, and the “ Pariser Tageblatt / Pariser Tageszeitung” «And other organs of the German exile press , but also for French newspapers. He was involved in the anti-fascist resistance and contributed to the 1936 documentary “ The German People Accuses ”. - After the start of the Second World War , he was arrested by the French authorities in September 1939 and passed through several internment camps . In July 1940 he managed to escape to the United States via Marseille and Lisbon . - Scheer lived in New York during his American exile , where he worked for the Overseas News Agency and wrote for German-language American and exile magazines . From 1944 he belonged to the “ Council for a Democratic Germany ”, an attempt to establish a broad alliance of German emigrants in the United States. Scheer returned to Germany in 1947.

Maximilian Scheer settled in East Germany , where he worked from November 1947 to September 1949 as editor-in-chief of the magazine Ost und West published by Alfred Kantorowicz , which appeared from July 1947 to December 1949. He then headed the “Artistic Word” main department of the Berliner Rundfunk and the Deutschlandsender until 1952 . From 1952 he worked as a freelance journalist and writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he traveled extensively to the Arab countries, East Africa and Cuba ; his travels formed the basis for numerous volumes of reports.

In addition to his reports, Maximilian Scheer also wrote narrative works and radio plays. He was since 1951 member of the East German PEN Center , it belonged to the Peace Council of the GDR on, was board member of the League for People's Friendship and member of the German-Arab Society . In 1956 he received the German Peace Medal , 1962 a National Prize , 1965 the Carl von Ossietzky Medal , 1966 the orderStar of Friendship of Nations ”, 1971 the order “ Banner of Labor ”, 1974 the Johannes R. Becher Medal and 1956 the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1976 in gold.

tomb

He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin.

Fonts

Monographs:

  • Drive to the Rhine. Berlin 1948.
  • Encounters in Europe and America. Berlin 1949.
  • Courage to be free. Berlin-Treptow 1951.
  • Hello, neighbor ... Berlin 1952.
  • Paths of life in our days. Berlin 1952.
  • Black and white at the Waterberg. Schwerin 1952.
  • Sixteen bunches of straw. Berlin 1953.
  • Ethel and Julius. Berlin 1954.
  • Player. Berlin 1955.
  • As an eyewitness in Egypt. Berlin 1956.
  • Arab trip. Berlin 1957.
  • Friends through Rudolf Leonhard. Berlin 1958.
  • with Kurt Klingner: Countries on the Nile. Leipzig 1958.
  • Algeria. Berlin 1959.
  • Peace in court. Berlin 1959.
  • Iraq. Berlin 1959.
  • Hassan and the Sheikh. Berlin 1960.
  • Serious people's adventures. Berlin 1961.
  • From Africa to Cuba. Berlin 1961.
  • The retaliation of Abdul Salem. Berlin 1962.
  • Indian days and Arabic tales. Berlin u. a. 1964.
  • It was like that in Paris. Berlin 1964.
  • The interrogation on the Nile. Berlin 1969.
  • The way to San Rafael. Berlin 1971.
  • A restless life. Berlin 1975.
  • In my opinion. Berlin 1977.

As editor and / or editor:

  • (Anonymous) The German people accuse - Hitler's war against the peace fighters in Germany. A book of facts. Foreword by Romain Rolland . Editor Maximilian Scheer. Paris 1936
    • Extended new edition, edited by Katharina Schlieper (Scheer's daughter), Laika, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 9783942281201 ; Foreword Romain Rolland of the French edition from 1937 and currently Lionel Richard
  • Blood and Honor. With the collaboration of a collective of German anti-fascists. Foreword by Emil Julius Gumbel . Published by the non-partisan German Aid Committee, Paris. Editions du Carrefour, Paris 1937
  • Rudolf Leonhard : Rudolf Leonhard tells. Berlin 1955
  • Rudolf Leonhard: Le Vernet . Berlin 1961
  • Rudolf Leonhard: Sails on the Horizon. Berlin 1963
  • Rudolf Leonhard: A life in poetry. Berlin 1964
  • Rudolf Leonhard: The way and the goal. Berlin 1970
  • George Jackson : Dearest Angela, first among equals: prison letters. Berlin 1971

Filmography

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report on the new edition .
  2. Review on Deutschlandradio Kultur July 15, 2012.