Werner Turk

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Werner Türk (born May 1, 1901 in Berlin ; died after 1947) was a German writer and emigrant during the Nazi era .

Life

Werner Türk was the son of a Berlin Jewish merchant. Nothing is known about his school days. He studied music, but had to abandon his studies because of economic difficulties. In the time of inflation he worked as an assistant to a stockbroker , later as an employee in a clothing company and as an accountant in a bank. Türk wrote for various daily newspapers, such as the Berliner Tageblatt , the Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung or the Red Flag . Around 1930 he became a member of the Association of German Writers . He processed his professional experience in his novel “Konfektion”. In March 1933 he emigrated to Prague . He was one of the authors whose books were burned on May 10, 1933 . In Prague he wrote the novel "Little Man in Uniform", which describes the path of a petty bourgeois into the SA . At the end of 1936/37 he traveled to Norway and worked there for the Norwegian radio. Here he wrote a book about Mozart's Magic Flute that was confiscated in 1941. After the German occupation of Norway by the Wehrmacht in 1940, he fled to England. As a German he was interned here on the Isle of Man with Alfred Sohn-Rethel , among others , and deported to Australia during the war . In 1947 he received British citizenship . He worked as a freelance writer in London . In 1962 he is said to have been alive. The date of his death is unknown.

In March 1930, Stefan Zweig called him “one of the most talented young talents”.

Works

  • The working lion . Arta Verlag, Berlin 1924.
  • Hyena. Narration . Arta Verlag, Berlin 1926.
  • Richard Dehmel's diary. In: The literature. 29 born March 6, 1927.
  • Cellar nights . In: The Red Flag. Berlin 1928, No. 100-106 and 108.
  • An unemployed novel. Bruno Nelissen-Haken : “The Bundhund Case”. In: Berliner Tageblatt. October 31, 1930.
  • Confection. Novel . Agis-Verlag, Berlin / Vienna 1932.
  • Marriage on strike. In: Wieland Herzfelde (Ed.): Thirty new storytellers of the new Germany. Young German prose (1932) . Malik Verlag, Berlin 1932, pp. 144–170. (Reprinted by Röderberg Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983 table of contents )
  • Little man in uniform. Novel. Michal Kacha, Prague 1934.
    • Little man in uniform. Novel. (= Universum Library. 133 a). Universum Library for All, Basel 1934.
  • The meaning of this emigration. In: The New World Stage . Vol. 3, 1934, No. 19, pp. 588-591.
  • Education before Verdun. In: The New World Stage. November 7, 1935.
  • Poet in exile. In: The word. III / 5. Moscow 1938, pp. 122–125.
  • Tryllefløten. Mozart's livseventyr fortalt for alle unge . Aschehoug, Oslo 1939, DNB 993454623 .

literature

  • Türk, Werner. In: Lexicon of socialist German literature. From the beginning until 1945. Monographic-biographical accounts. Verlag Sprache und Literatur, Halle (Saale) 1963, pp. 492–493.
  • Türk, Werner. In: Proletarian-Revolutionary Literature 1918 to 1933. An outline. (= Contemporary writers. 9). Volk und Wissen, Berlin 1970, pp. 324-325.
  • Frank Meyer: Writing for the stranger. Political and cultural journalism of the German-speaking exile in Norway and Scandinavia 1933–1940 . Klartext, Essen 2000, ISBN 3-88474-816-5 , p. 141 ff.
  • Zlata Fuss Phillips: German's children's and youth literature in exile 1933–1950. Biographies and bibliographies . De Gruyter Saur, Berlin / Boston 2011, p. 250 f. (Digitized version)
  • Volker Weidermann: The book of burned books . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015. Digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zlata Fuss Phillips, p. 250.
  2. ^ Lexicon of socialist German literature. P. 492.
  3. ↑ Tryllefløten. Mozart's livseventyr fortalt for alle unge .
  4. ↑ Zlata Fuss Phillips, p. 251.
  5. ↑ Stefan Berkholz: A Marxist in the cave of the capitalists. A visit to the social philosopher Alfred Sohn-Retnel . In: The time. November 24, 1989.
  6. ^ Lexicon of socialist German literature. P. 492.
  7. ↑ Zlata Fuss Phillips.
  8. ^ Proletarian Revolutionary Literature 1918 to 1933. pp. 2 and 325.
  9. ^ PEN center for German-speaking authors abroad . In memoriam. We remember our deceased members. ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.exilpen.net
  10. ^ Susanne Buchinger: Stefan Zweig - writer and literary agent. Relations with his German-speaking publishers (1901–1942) . Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-7657-2132-8 , p. 124.
  11. ↑ Bibliographical reference.
  12. ↑ Review by Siegfried Kracauer : To a novel from the ready-made. In addition to an excursus on social novel reporting. In: Frankfurter Zeitung. June 5, 1932. (Literature sheet) (Digitized version)
  13. ↑ Review on Education before Verdun .
personal data
SURNAME Türk, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, emigrant during the National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1962