Walther G. Oschilewski

Walther Georg Oschilewski (born July 22, 1904 in Berlin ; † May 1, 1987 there ) was a social democratic journalist , poet and cultural historian . Oschilewski also published under the pseudonyms Walther Gosch and Peter Hartberg .

Life

Oschilewski was born as a working class child and grew up with his five siblings in poor circumstances.

In 1920 Oschilewski began an apprenticeship as a typesetter with the social democratic “ Vorwärts ”. He later studied in Jena and Berlin , among other things as a student of Theodor Heuss , political theory and political history . In the years 1921 to 1923 there was a "close" collaboration between Oschilewski and the anarchist Ernst Friedrich, and he reported in 1978 that this collaboration had a "decisive influence" on his "own development".

Oschilewski belonged to the group of writers that formed around Victor Otto Stomps and his publishing house Rabenpresse , founded in 1926 . This also included Horst Lange and his wife Oda Schaefer , Peter Huchel , Werner Bergengruen , for a short time Bertolt Brecht , Joachim Maass , Robert Seitz , Jens Heimreich , Rolf Bongs , Werner Helwig , Eberhard Meckel and Hans Gebser, who was a philosopher in Switzerland Jean Gebser became known.

Oschilewski was editor of the literary magazine “ Der Fischzug ” founded by Stomps in 1926 , which was discontinued after a few issues in the same year. He later made contributions to the literary magazine " The White Raven ", which was founded by Stomps in 1932 and was published until 1934. In the Rabenpresse von Oschilewski published, among other things, “Song of the Stars” with a woodcut by Frans Masereel .

In 1940 Oschilewski became a soldier. After the war he became a scientific librarian at the German Teachers' Library.

Following an offer from Arno Scholz (1904–1971), he became chief editor, later deputy editor-in-chief of the West Berlin daily Telegraf , until he left in 1969. In addition, he designed two feature pages a week for the "Berlin Voice" without a fee also wrote many articles, especially about the party history of the SPD and the history of Berlin.

Oschilewski was a member of the city ​​council of Greater Berlin from 1947 to 1950 .

Among other things, Oschilewski published a series of portraits of artists and politicians as well as the books "350 Years of Berlin Newspapers" and "Great Socialists in Berlin". In the yearbook “Der Bär von Berlin” from the Association for the History of Berlin, he published a total of nine essays on the labor movement and the press in Berlin.

Honors

• Fidicin Medal of the Association for the History of Berlin (1972)
• Ernst Reuter badge (1974)

Publications (selection)

• The printer. Customs and habits in ancient and modern times. Diederichs, Jena 1935 (= German people. Volume 80); 3. Edition. Verlag Beruf und Schule, Itzehoe 1988. ISBN 978-3-88013-389-1 .
• Lassalle in Berlin. In: Yearbook “The Bear of Berlin”, ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 1st year, Berlin 1951.
• At the cradle of the German labor movement. Stephan Born in Berlin , ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 2nd year, Berlin 1952.
• Karl Marx as a student in Berlin , ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 3rd year, Berlin 1953.
• Under the spell of Hegel. Friedrich Engels' Berlin Military and Academic Year , ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 4th year, Berlin 1954.
• "On our mercy require and berger". Hans Weiß - Berlin's first book printer , ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 5th year, Berlin 1955.
• Berlin's oldest newspaper. Marginalia on their story , ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 6th year, Berlin 1956.
• Newspapers in Berlin 1848/49. Birth of a Democratic Press , ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 24th year, Berlin 1975.
• Newspapers in Berlin. In the Mirror of the Centuries , Haude & Spenersche Verlagbuchhandlung , Berlin 1975.
• Closer to the heart of creation. Wilhelm Oesterle in Berlin , ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 25th year, Berlin 1976.
• Memory of Friedrich Georg Weitsch. His work as court painter and academy director in Berlin. Published by the Association for the History of Berlin, Volume 27, Berlin 1978.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 205 (331 pages).
• Kurt Pomplun: Berlinomane. Walther G. Oschilewski 70 years (with his Berlin bibliography). In: Yearbook “The Bear of Berlin”, ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 23rd year, Berlin 1974.
• Rudolf Stöber:  Oschilewski, Walther Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 606 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Walther G. Oschilewski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walther Georg Oschilewski in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Text on the 80th birthday from "Vorwärts" and Nekrolog from "Der Tagesspiegel" , accessed March 20, 2009
• W. Oschilewski in the film "A week with Willy Brandt" (3/3, from min 9.29)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Ernst Friedrich: Vom Friedensmuseum zur Hitlerkaserne, Libertad Verlag Berlin 1978, p. 234
2. ↑ [1] , DieGeschichteBerlins.de, accessed on April 27, 2015