Werner Schendell

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Werner Schendell , pseudonym: Roman Quitt (born April 18, 1891 in Elsterwerda ; † March 5, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Werner Schendell was - following a job at Siemens & Halske - until 1933 managing director of the Association of German Writers (SDA) founded in the 1920s . After the Second World War he was co-founder and again managing director of the Association of German Authors , a forerunner of the German Writers' Association , the professional association of GDR writers.

Wiepersdorf Castle, Schendell's place of work from 1946 to 1950

As managing director of the German Poet Foundation Wiepersdorf , he was responsible for setting up the Arnim manor, Schloss Wiepersdorf, as a writer's home from 1946 until his arrest in 1950 . Shortly before the start of the meeting of the annual foundation board of trustees on May 17, 1950, he was arrested in Potsdam in the antechamber of the Brandenburg Minister for National Education, Science and Art, Fritz Rücker , for alleged embezzlement and taken to the Luckenwalde remand prison. This was accompanied by his provisional removal from office as managing director. This met with opposition from a number of Berlin authors, as there were obviously political reasons. Wolfgang Weyrauch , former SDA member and active in Wiepersdorf until 1949, said on June 11, 1950 in the Hamburger Welt am Sonntag : Werner Schendell tried to set the homogeneity of the mind against the alternative of politics, which thereby becomes politics Influence over the yes and no sayers, and everyone has to deal with it. But now he is arrested. On November 23, 1950, however, he was acquitted by the Great Criminal Chamber of the responsible court in Cottbus . On January 1, 1951, he resumed his post as managing director of the SDA-Zone or SDA / GDR and, according to his own decision, remained so until May of the same year.

In December 1952 Schendell u. a. next to Joachim Tiburtius and Wolfgang Goetz founding board member of the German Friedrich Schiller Foundation in Berlin. From 1955 to 1958 Schendell participated in the founding of the Society for the Exploitation of Literary Copyrights (GELU), and he worked as a managing director in the Association of Stage Authors .

Schendell's estate is in the literary archive of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . The estate also includes letters from Max Barthel , Ludwig Berger , Theodor Bohner , Hanns Martin Elster , Kurt Erich Meurer , Hans José Rehfisch , Roland Schacht , Paul Schallück , Mary Tucholsky and Paul Westheim .

The novella Irene , published in 1921, and the novel A Happy Legacy are regionally interwoven with the Berlin Wissinger family, who, like Schendell, worked in Stahnsdorf and are buried in the south-west cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • 1918: political parties . Drama in fifteen scenes. Fischer, Berlin.
  • 1919: servant . Novel. Fischer, Berlin.
  • 1921: Irene . Novel. Erich Reiss, Berlin.
  • 1923: aftermath . Novel. Ullstein, Berlin.
  • 1928: The young seed . Schünemann , Bremen.
  • 1928: a happy legacy . Novel. Foreword by Hermann Stehr . German Book Community , Berlin.
  • 1933: A bushel of salt . Roman u. The deaf flower . Narrative. People's Association of Book Friends , Berlin.
  • 1935: William of Orange . Liberator of the Netherlands . Biography. Kiepenheuer, Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frach, Friederike: Wiepersdorf Castle. The "Künstlerheim" under the influence of cultural policy in the GDR , p. 59; ISBN 978-3-86153-674-1
  2. ↑ Welt am Sonntag, No. 1369, p. 9.
  3. ^ Frach, Friederike: Wiepersdorf Castle. The "Künstlerheim" under the influence of cultural policy in the GDR , p. 60; ISBN 978-3-86153-674-1
  4. ↑ www.langenacht-suedwestkirchhof.de ( Memento from September 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Schendell, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quitt, Roman (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsterwerda
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1961
Place of death Berlin