Siegfried Bergengruen

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Siegfried Bergengruen (born April 16, 1900 in Riga ; † April 16, 1942 ) was a Baltic German journalist and writer . As an author, he used the pseudonyms Quidam and Sigber .

Life

Siegfried Bergengruen worked as a journalist for various Berlin agencies and magazines and published numerous advice articles. In 1930 he was editor of the magazine Der Zeitstufe , in 1932 he was briefly chief editor of Eheglück und Liebesleben. Nature and Life and editor of the weekly newspaper Die Welt ein Roman . As editor-in-chief of the magazine Aufklerung , a monthly magazine for “Sexual- und Lebensreform” (including about nudism and “controversial” films), he is noted for a short time in their imprint ( Magnus Hirschfeld is also named as the publisher ). In 1935/1936 he was editor of the magazine Der Tanz. International journal for dance culture .

Two of his books have been after the war into the German Administration of Public Education in the Soviet occupation zone included published "List of auszusondernden literature" and removed from public libraries, namely the thorny path of the last Tsar (1st Supplement 1947) and men make History (3rd supplement from 1953).

Works (selection)

  • Against the current . Novel. Baltischer Verlag, Riga 1929 (Riga Novel Library on Sunday, Vol. 8)
    • New edition: Eden-Verlag, Berlin 1934 (Collection of New Women's Novels, Vol. 30)
  • Devil in God's land . Novel. Selle-Eysler, Berlin 1931 ("Deutsche Illustrierte" Roman Library, Book 4)
  • The last tsar's thorn path. Written using the authentic material , co-author: Konrad Linz . Selle-Eysler, Berlin 1931 ("Deutsche Illustrierte" novel library book 8)
  • Men make the story. Savior from German distress from Hermann the Cheruscan to Adolf Hitler. Eleven chapters of German history. Retold from historical sources . Verlag Deutsches Volksbuch, Berlin 1933 (Deutsches Volksbuch vol. 2)
  • By 17 million . Detective novel. Eden-Verlag, Berlin 1934 (Modern Library Collection, Vol. 26)
  • Grit has a choice . Novel. Eden-Verlag, Berlin 1934
  • The maharaja's puppets . Detective novel. Eden-Verlag, Berlin 1934 (collection of large detective novels, vol. 1) ( full text from Gutenberg-DE )
  • The treasure in the dune. A novel about adventures and work on the Baltic Sea . Serialized novel (17 episodes) in the Rigaschen Post , January 18 - April 21, 1935 ( digitized in the LNB )
  • Vampire from Gorno-Ul . Detective novel. Eden-Verlag, Berlin 1936 (Collection of 50 Pfennig crime novels, vol. 43)
  • The secret of the Iroquois . Detective novel. Eden-Verlag, Berlin 1936 (Collection of 50 Pfennig crime novels, vol. 45)
  • Secret port 666 . Detective novel. Eden-Verlag, Berlin 1936 (Collection of 50 Pfennig crime novels, vol. 46)

literature

  • German Literature Lexicon 20th Century , Vol. 2: Bauer-Ose - Björnson . de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-908255-02-3 , Sp. 357.
  • Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra horns: Dictionary of German literature of the Baltic and St. Petersburg , Vol. 1: A - G . de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , pp. 183-184.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner: Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg , p. 183 f. .
personal data
SURNAME Bergengruen, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quidam (pseudonym); Sigber (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1942