Pelle hedgehog

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Pelle Igel (born January 2, 1905 in Trier , † December 13, 1981 in Achern ), actually Julius Hans Woile , also known as Hans Peter Woile , was a German communist agitator and writer. Before the Second World War he worked as a communist agitator and was then a West German writer , caricaturist and drawing teacher who was inclined to the GDR .

Life

Registered in the registry office as Julius Hans Woile, he gave himself the first name Hans Peter or Hans Pitter and worked mainly under the pseudonym Pelle Igel. Both parents were engaged at the Trier City Theater. After their divorce, he stayed with his mother until the age of 14, who moved around with a traveling theater, which is why he often changed schools. At the side of his mother he played supporting roles in children himself. He spent his youth with his grandparents in Bremen, where he attended secondary school.

He got a painting training and learned the profession of drawing teacher . at the art college in Bremen . He then taught at the Scharrelmann School . As a painter's apprentice, he joined the trade union and the Communist Youth Association of Germany . In 1927 he founded the agitprop troop “The Red Reporters” on behalf of the International Workers Aid (IAH) based on the model of the blue blouses , of which he was the leader, author and player. From 1930 he was a correspondent for the Bremer Arbeiterzeitung and head of the Bremen-Oldenburg section of the Association of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers (BPRS), of which he had been a member since 1928. He had also joined the KPD in 1928 .

On the night of the Reichstag fire , Pelle Igel was arrested and taken to the Mißler concentration camp near Bremen for "re-education" . He was released again in August 1933 because his pseudonym did not clearly identify him as a person. However, he was banned from working as a journalist and drawing teacher. This was followed by a temporary stay in the Netherlands and, on his return in 1938, the master's examination in painting. From then on he worked as a freelance house painter. At the same time he illegally participated in the creation of an anti-Nazi caricature book that could not appear until 1947.

In 1940 Pelle Igel was called up for military service and in 1941 was transferred to the 999 Penal Battalion . In 1943 he was dismissed as one hundred percent war-damaged . In 1945 he came to Ottenhöfen in the Black Forest , where he worked in the municipal administration from 1945 to 1949, deployed by the Allied occupiers . During this time he was one of the founders of the Democratic Cultural Association in Baden. Writing again, poems, short prose and reports by him appeared in the Karlsruhe Badischer Volksecho , in the Sächsische Zeitung , in the Bremer Neue Echo , in the Austrian Volksstimme and in the Weltbühne . For the KPD newspaper Unser Tag , published in Offenburg , he acted as culture editor . In 1957 he published the anti-militarist satirical collection, Stiefel remains Stiefel , with which he protested against rearmament and the impending nuclear war . The font was banned in 1958 and an investigation was initiated. After Igel had further provoked the state power, 130 drawings, caricatures and posters were seized during a house search in January 1962, most of which had been printed in the weekly newspaper Badischer Volksbote (successor to the banned Badischer Volksechos ). This led to charges of endangering the state and treason . After almost eight years of trial, the proceedings were discontinued in 1969. The Badische Volksbote had already been discontinued in 1962 due to the negative public opinion and the associated decline in reader numbers.

From 1963 to 1975 Igel had a second home in Friesack near Nauen in the GDR. He taught drawing at the local engineering school for agricultural technology and lived in the attic of the school building until displeasure against the "West German" arose. In the early 1970s his poems were regularly featured in the hectographed periodical Agitprop. Current text service for play & song groups represented. In the 1970s he participated in the development of the work group literature in the world of work .

A new edition of the indexed book “ Stiefel remains Stiefel” was published in 1976. This was followed by the 70-page gloss of Benaz, his “great leader”, the little marching teacher (1978) and the prose collection Room 6 and Other Experiences (1980). As a member of the Artists for Peace Initiative , Igel was one of the first signatories of the Krefeld appeal in 1981 . Igel went on numerous reading and lecture trips to the GDR, Austria and Switzerland.

style

In the Weimar Republic , Pelle Igel turned to the plight of the “common people” and denounced the social domination . After the war he criticized the Federal Republic as their artistic freedom , the prohibitions , the remilitarization and the reinstatement of former Nazis in senior positions (the so-called "Nazi continuity"), in which he lays out concrete responsible in his lyrics. The SED central organ Neues Deutschland wrote in its obituary that Pelle Igel was “one of the pioneers of socialist literature in Germany” and “fought against imperialist class rule”.

His possibilities of expression are considered to be limited. His prose style is simple, without "sophisticated formulations and aesthetic finesse". The poems are mostly in the common rhyme schemes [aabbcc ...] or [abab]held Gebrauchslyrik and hurt sometimes rules of metric or syntax .

Fonts

Books

  • 1947: ... and tomorrow the whole world. Time satire in words and pictures. Publishing house Die Zukunft, Reutlingen.
  • 1957: Boot remains a boot. Time satire in verse and prose. Conseil-Verlag Jentzen, Stuttgart. (Edition destroyed.)
  • 1960: Duds in Dresden. District Peace Council, Dresden.
  • 1963: Demolition of democracy. Depicted from my own experience. I accuse! Documentation on "Freedom of the press and freedom of information". Documentation about a process. Self-published, Ottenhöfen in Baden. (Brochure.)
  • 1964: The Echo. Letters, newspaper reports and drawings as answers to the brochure: "Dismantling democracy - I accuse" by Hans-Peter Woile. Self-published, Ottenhöfen in Baden. (Brochure.)
  • 1976: Boot remains a boot. Time satire in verse and prose. Publishing house atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude (= Fischerhude texts 1). (New edition.)
  • 1978: Benaz, his "great leader" little marching instructor. A gloss with drawings. Publishing house atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude (= Fischerhude texts 31). ISBN 3-88132-031-8 . (Sometimes incorrectly read and rendered as "Benar".)
  • 1980: Room 6 and other experiences. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude (= Fischerhuder Texte 44). ISBN 3-88132-044-X .

Anthology contributions

  • 1974: Red reporters in action. In: The red grandfather tells. Reports and stories from veterans of the labor movement from 1914 to 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 3-436-01857-0 . Pp. 71-85.
  • 1976: The Basic Law. [Cartoon]. In: Wolfgang Beutin, Thomas Metscher , Barbara Meyer (Hrsg.): Berufsverbot. A German reading book. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude (= Fischerhude texts 15). ISBN 3-88132-015-6 . P. 205.
  • 1982: Red Reporters in Action , The Retraining , The Clear Expression , Christmas, January 11, 1942 , Take your hands off me! , The Saber , The Sunflowers , The “Rotten Apples” and 11 poems. In: The incorrigible. Red grandfathers tell. Publishing house Tribüne, Berlin. Pp. 120-165.

items

  • June / July / August 1965: The story of Mrs. Elsa Beu. Reprinted in various left-wing newspapers in the Federal Republic of Germany. Also in the GDR in: The world stage . Number 33, August 18, 1965, pp. 1025-1027.

Song lyrics

  • 19 ??: Red reporters everywhere (music: Kurt Köhler )
  • 19 ??: That gives you the right flag (music: Karl Frank )
  • 1971: Freedom for Angela Davis (plus three melody versions by lay composers Wolfgang Friedrichs, H. Abele and Gabriele Groll)

Records

  • 1978: Pelle Igel reads. Publishing house atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude. (Long-play speech record.)

Graphic folders

  • 1975: Pelle Igel. Political cartoons. 30 years of fighting reaction and obscurity. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude (= Fischerhuder Grafik 1). ISBN 3-88132-301-5 .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1975: Political caricatures for democracy and peace , Bremen University of Design
  • 1975: Chile after the coup , touring exhibition of the Democratic Cultural Association of Germany
  • 1977: Political caricatures and collages. 30 years of the Federal Republic of Germany , studio stage at the University of Giessberg , Constance
  • 1980: Pelle Igel: caricatures and photo montages from the fifties and sixties , Galerie am Chamissoplatz, Berlin

Lectures (selection)

  • Thorny Truths. Seriousness and satire hung on the German clothesline. Also udT prickly truths on the German clothesline. Held in several places in the GDR.
  • Boot remains boot. Songs and lyrics against the war. Together with the song group Jörg Ratgeb (Pforzheim).
  • Proletarian poetry and prose. Held in several places in the GDR.
  • Art and anti-art in the present. Held in several places in the GDR.
  • Careful, Michel, porcelain! Together with the acting ensemble of the Meißen city theater.
  • Where are we in the Federal Republic? Held in several places in the GDR.

literature

  • Peter Schütt : Socialist poetry in the Federal Republic. In: Culture and Society. Monthly of the Democratic Cultural Association of the Federal Republic of Germany , No. 7–8 / 1973, pp. 9–17.
  • Gerhard Has: Hans-Peter Woile - Pelle Igel. Exhibition for the 70th birthday. Reprint from: Culture and Society. Monthly of the Democratic Cultural Association of the Federal Republic of Germany , February 1975.
  • Judith G. Prieberg: Pelle Igel: Ik am all here. In: Freundbilder 1. Jasmin Eichner Verlag, Offenburg 1992, pp. 39–41. ISBN 3-9801534-8-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Pelle Igel: Foreword by the author . In: Room 6 and other experiences (=  Fischerhude texts ). tape 44 . Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1980, ISBN 3-88132-044-X , p. 3-5 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Helmuth Hellge: The red reporter Pelle Igel . In: Klaus Steiniger (Ed.): RotFuchs . Tribune for communists and socialists in Germany. 8th year, no. 86 . Berlin March 2005, p. 28 ( rotfuchs.net [PDF; 2.0 MB ; accessed on December 6, 2017]).
  3. ↑ a b c d Pelle Igel: Red Reporters in Action . In: Düsseldorf workshop of the working group literature in the world of work (ed.): The red grandfather tells. Reports and narratives by veterans of the labor movement from 1914 to 1945 (=  work group literature of the working world ). No. 1445 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-436-01857-0 , p. 71-85 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Heinz W. Pahlke: Pelle Igel - poet and theater man of resistance (part 1). In: buchentdeckungen.de. November 30, 2009, accessed December 6, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Pelle-Igel-Archiv. In: adk.de. Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b W. K .: The spines of the "Pelle Hedgehog". Portrait of a courageous writer and artist . In: Deutsche Volkszeitung . No. 44/1960 . Düsseldorf October 28, 1960, p. 11 .
  7. ↑ a b c d N [ina-Kathrin] B [Ehr]: Hedgehog . In: Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century. Biographical and bibliographical manual . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch . Volume 21 Huber - Imgrund. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023167-0 , Sp. 529-530 .
  8. ↑ a b c d e Peter Schütt : Pelle Igel . In: Düsseldorf workshop of the working group literature in the world of work (ed.): The red grandfather tells. Reports and narratives by veterans of the labor movement from 1914 to 1945 (=  work group literature of the working world ). No. 1445 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-436-01857-0 , p. 68-71 .
  9. ^ A b Matthias Mitzschke: Forbidden under Adenauer. For the republication of Pelle Igels satires "Boot stays boots" . In: Deutsche Volkszeitung . Düsseldorf March 11th 1976.
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Heinz W. Pahlke: Pelle Igel - poet and theater man of resistance (part 2). In: buchentdeckungen.de. December 4, 2009, accessed December 6, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Pelle Igel: From Haberstroh to Piepenbrock . In: New Germany . No. 313/1962 , November 13, 1962, Kultur, pp. 4 .
  12. ^ ADN-Korr .: BRD: "Artists for Peace". Krefeld's appeal supported. Call for a rally in Bonn with strong response . In: New Germany . No. 223/1981 , September 19, 1981, pp. 1 .
  13. ↑ ADN-Korr./BZ: Artist of the FRG condemn the NATO plans. Broad support for Krefeld's appeal . In: Berliner Zeitung . No. 222/1981 , September 19, 1981, pp. 1 .
  14. ↑ Michael Schwartz : Expellees and "Resettled Policy". Integration conflicts in post-war German societies and assimilation strategies in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–1961 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-56845-0 , chapter 2.2.4. “Something new”: The socio-political profile of the ZVU workforce from a Soviet zonal and pan-German perspective, p. 237 .
  15. ↑ A life as a "red reporter". In memory of Pelle Igel . In: New Germany . Berlin December 23, 1981, culture, p. 4 .
personal data
SURNAME Hedgehog, Pelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woile, Julius Hans (real name); Woile, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist agitator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1981
Place of death Achern