Paul Körner-Schrader

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Paul Körner-Schrader ( pseudonym for Karl Schrader , born April 25, 1900 in Wedderstedt / Harz, † May 18, 1962 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Karl Schrader was the son of a social democratic wheelwright . He had a tough childhood and adolescence and was forced to break off an apprenticeship as a gardener. In 1917 he was drafted into the military. Having a self-penned pacifist had spread poem, he was charged with high treason accused and a one-year prison sentence convicted, he in the fortress Thorn was serving.

After the November Revolution of 1918 Schrader was a member of a soldiers' council ; he became a member of the Spartakusbund and in 1919 the KPD . Because of its participation in the Central German uprising in 1921, he was in absentia sentenced to seven years in prison. Schrader went into hiding and worked under the name Paul Körner in industry, mining and agriculture. After his sentence was overturned in 1928 by a general amnesty , Körner-Schrader became editor of the communist newspaper Die Rote Fahne and a member of the Association of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers . In the following years his publications brought him several trials and a total of five years imprisonment, among other things for "literary treason" and blasphemy . His first novel Schlagende Wetter was banned in 1929 before it was published.

After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", a writing ban was imposed on Körner-Schrader ; In the years that followed, the author was subjected to permanent persecution and repeated imprisonment by the authorities of the National Socialist German Reich , but was still able to publish illegally in the German-language exile press . In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a medical soldier , and until 1945 he took part in the Second World War on the German side .

After the end of the war, Körner-Schrader lived in Berlin and worked for numerous newspapers and magazines as well as the GDR radio .

Paul Körner-Schrader's work includes novels, short stories , children's books , poems , amateur plays and radio plays , in which he often processed his own experiences from the time of the German Empire to the Second World War .

Paul Körner-Schrader was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver in 1959 , the Franz Mehring Badge of Honor from the Association of the German Press in 1960 and the Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal .

Works

  • Caught , Berlin 1949
  • The hunger farmers , Rudolstadt 1949
  • The fearful rabbits , Berlin 1950
  • The ox looks out of the window , Halle (Saale) 1950
  • Der Spiegel , Halle (S.) 1951
  • Trapped in a well , Berlin 1953
  • Ostlandreiter , Berlin 1959
  • Driven hunt in the village , Berlin 1959
  • Bread for the big table , Halle (Saale) 1960
  • The silver balls , Berlin 1960
  • Berlin, Andreasstrasse , Berlin 1962

literature

  • Koerner-Schrader, Paul . In: Lexicon of socialist German literature. From the beginning to 1945. Monographic-biographical presentations . Bibliographical Institute. Leipzig 1964, pp. 295-298.
  • 65th birthday of the German writer and journalist Paul Körner-Schrader . In: Bibliographical calendar sheets of the Berlin City Library . Volume 7., Berlin 1965, pp. 58-62.
  • Gisela Wagner: Paul Körner-Schrader (actually Karl Schrader). 1900 - 1962. Revolutionary writer, anti-fascist resistance fighter, friend of the Soviet Union Paul Körner-Schrader . Council of the Berlin-Treptow District, Berlin-Treptow 1972.
  • Schrader, Karl . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Koerner-Schrader, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schrader, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Wedderstedt , Harz
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1962
Place of death Berlin