Otto Krille

Otto Moritz Krille (born August 5, 1878 in Börnersdorf near Gottleuba , † January 31, 1954 in Zurich ) was a German social democratic writer. Krille also published under the pseudonym Eugen Tubandt .

Life

Otto Moritz Krille grew up in poor circumstances, his father, the bricklayer Friedrich August Krille, died in 1878 before he was born, his mother, Wilhelmine Hornauer, was a farm and factory worker. At the age of thirteen he was sent to the soldiers' boys' education institution in small troops , then to the non-commissioned officers' school , " Marienberger Anstalt", where he was dismissed in 1893 for being unsuitable. Krille was a factory worker in Dresden until 1900 and joined the social democracy. He did his military service between 1900 and 1902. He then attended the Humboldt Academy in Berlin for a year . His second volume of poetry, From Narrow Alleys , received an introduction by Clara Zetkin and was published in 1904 by Johannes Sassenbach . In 1914 he published his autobiographical work “Unter dem Joch” at the Egon Fleischel publishing house. Krille was also involved in the youth work of the SPD .

Until 1914 he worked as an editor and editor for social democratic press organs. In the Lublinski affair triggered by Theodor Lessing in 1910 , Krille took a position on behalf of Lessing, casually mentioning that a volume of poetry would only be reviewed by the newspapers if an advertisement for the book had previously been placed. He also worked for the Swabian Tagwacht in Stuttgart and resigned from its editorial team with Friedrich Westmeyer on September 30, 1911 . He was a soldier in the First World War .

After the war he lived as a freelance writer in Munich , where he also held a position in the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he had to flee to Switzerland . In 1937 he was expatriated from Germany . Krille lived on the 50 SFr. , which he received monthly from the Swiss workers' aid organization in 1939, and had to beg the Swiss authorities to receive dental treatment. Krille was admitted to the Swiss Writers' Association (SSV) in 1937 , but received an expulsion order from the Swiss Aliens Police in 1940 for allegedly helping foreign communist functionaries and influencing youth in the communist sense and was interned in Switzerland from 1940 to 1941 .

He stayed in exile in Switzerland after the end of the war. His son Hans Krille (1923–1991, he called himself Jean Krillé), adopted in 1948, attended the Zurich School of Applied Arts in Switzerland with Max Gubler and Johannes Itten and studied art history in Bern . He worked as an architect and painted.

Works

• Sun longing, a poetry from the working life. undated (1903)
• From narrow streets. Poems. Johannes Sassenbach, Berlin 1904
• Anna Barenthin. Drama. J. Sassenbach, Berlin 1911
• The silent book. Poems. Fleischel, Berlin 1913
• The flood. Drama. 1914
• Under the yoke. The story of a youth. Fleischel, Berlin 1914 (reissued: Akademie-Verlag, 1975)
• Workers youth and education. Lecture. O. Wöhrle, Constance 1924
• The red palette. Thoughts and sketches. O. Wöhrle, Constance 1924
• Outcry and unison. Selected poems for the youth. Arbeiterjugend-Verlag, Berlin 1925
• The consecration. Festival. E. Altenberger, Waldenburg-Altwasser in Silesia 1927
• The colorful hour. Fairy tale. 1929
• Salvation. A prologue game. E. Altenberger, Waldenburg-Altwasser in Silesia 1929
• Spring storm. A speaking choir. E. Altenberger, Waldenburg-Altwasser in Silesia 1929
• The wanderer in the twilight. Oprecht, Zurich 1936. In Germany 1938 included in the “ List of harmful and undesirable literature ”.
• Sounds. Self-published, Zurich 1943. With a cover picture and twenty pen drawings by Hans Hofmann illegally self-published.

literature

• Krille, Otto . In: Lexicon of socialist German writers . Leipzig 1964, p. 300-302 with bibliography p. 301 f.
• Wolfgang Emmerich :  Krille, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 47 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Krille in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Otto Krille  in the German Digital Library
• Literature by and about Otto Krille in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Otto Krille , short biography in: Sozialistische Mitteilungen , January 1947
• Jong-Rak Shin: Self-published in the literary life of exile in the years 1933–1945. Dissertation Kassel 2007 [1]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ aftermath . Article by Otto Krille in the “Leipziger Volkszeitung” of April 8, 1910. Printed by: Samuel takes stock and Tomi milks the moral cow or the fall of the two kings
2. ↑ Internal party disputes of the Stuttgart SPD , at the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
3. ↑ HEIMAT LOS SCHWEIZ ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. German-language literature in exile in Switzerland 1933–1950, March 20 to May 25, 2003. Exhibition in the Strauhof Zurich 
4. ↑ Jong-Rak Shin: Self-published in the literary life of exile in the years 1933-1945 , dissertation Kassel 2007, p. 75ff, at DNB
5. ↑ Jean Krille at galleries royal marriages
6. ^ List of harmful and undesirable literature, as of December 31, 1938. Page 77. Leipzig, 1938.