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Vilmos Korn , pseudonym Korvil , origin . Wilhelm Viktor Korn (born April 3, 1899 in Kikinda ( German  Großkikinda ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , †  November 6, 1970 in Kleinmachnow ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Vilmos Korn was the son of a writer and publicist . After attending the secondary school in Görlitz , he took part in the First World War as a war volunteer . In 1916 he was promoted to officer . After the November Revolution of 1918, Korn was a member of a workers 'and soldiers' council . He worked as an organizer in insurance and was secretary of an employee union. After a strike in 1923, he was charged and released. During the subsequent period of unemployment , Korn maintained contacts with anarchist circles. From 1928 he worked as a writer and journalist. In 1929 he became a member of the NSDAP , where he belonged to the left wing around Otto Strasser ; In 1930 he resigned from the party. As a result he belonged to the “ Black Front ”, the national revolutionary “ Awakening Circle ” and, since 1931, the KPD ; at the same time he was a member of the Reich leadership of the Kampfbund against fascism .

After the seizure of power by the Nazis Vilmos Korn lived from 1933 to 1935 illegally in Berlin , later in the Ore Mountains and in the Allgäu . At a secret meeting of anti- Nazi opponents in 1935 he met Ilse Truöl , a librarian from Dresden who was anti-Nazi , whom he married soon after. His daughter Nina Madlen was born on June 19, 1938 , who, as he lived illegally, had to grow up with foster parents in Hinterstein (Allgäu) until 1941 . From 1943 he took part in the Second World War as an officer in the German Air Force , but was also active in the anti-fascist resistance . In the summer of 1943 he was arrested after a denunciation and charged with preparing for high treason ; he spent the time up to the end of the war as a prisoner in the Torgau Wehrmacht prison .

After the end of the Second World War, Vilmos Korn was one of the founders of the Kulturbund in Saxony in 1945 and of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) in 1948 . From 1945 to 1950 he was head of the fiction department in the cultural advisory board of the Ministry of Popular Education ; from 1949 to 1958 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR as a member of the NDPD. In 1958 he lost this mandate and his offices in the NDPD because of “behavior that was harmful to the party” and then became a freelance writer .

From 1950 he lived with his wife, the writer Ilse Korn , and daughter in Kleinmachnow.

Vilmos Korn was the author of books for young people , dramatic works, scripts , radio plays and song texts.

Honor

• 1964 - Theodor Fontane Prize of the Potsdam district (together with Ilse Korn)

Works

• Dresden , 1946 (screenplay, short film)
• The Colon's sail , Berlin 1946
• Das Milchbächlein , Berlin 1953 (together with Hans Mau)
• The Nikolasturmchen , Berlin 1956
• Mohr and the Ravens of London , Berlin 1962 (together with Ilse Korn) - filmed in 1968 (Director: Helmut Dziuba ; Script: Gudrun Deubener , Margot Beichler , Helmut Dziuba)
• One next to you , Potsdam 1966 (together with Karl Erich Koch )
• Master Hans Röckle and Mister Flammfuß , Berlin 1968 (together with Ilse Korn) - filmed in 1974 under the title Hans Röckle and the Devil (Director: Hans Kratzert , Screenplay: Gudrun Deubener and Hans Kratzert)

Editing

• The gate of life is open , Halle 1951

literature

• Ingrid Kirschey-Feix , Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Vilmos Korn . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Vilmos Korn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Vilmos Korn at Literaturport