Wolfgang Joho

Wolfgang Joho (left), Tadeusz Borowski (center) and Mieczysław Jastrun at the German Writers' Congress in Berlin on July 4, 1950

Wolfgang Joho (born March 6, 1908 in Karlsruhe , † February 13, 1991 in Kleinmachnow ) was a German writer .

Life

Wolfgang Joho was the son of the journalist and writer Karl Joho (1875–1944, among other things editor at the Karlsruher Tagblatt ). After attending grammar school , Joho studied medicine , history and political science at the universities in Freiburg (Breisgau) , Heidelberg and Berlin from 1926 to 1931 . From 1928 he belonged to the Red Student Union and from 1929 to the KPD . 1931 doctorate Joho at the University of Heidelberg with his work on the early socialists Wilhelm Weitling for Doctor of Philosophy . From 1931 to 1932 he volunteered at the Württemberger Zeitung . Curiously enough, in 1933 he was expelled from the University of Heidelberg “for communist activities”. From 1933 to 1935 he worked as an editor at Hugenberg's Materndienst " Central Office for the German Press " in Berlin .

In 1937 he was arrested by the Gestapo for illegal activity for the KPD . Joho was to three years in prison convicted , he in prison Luckau and in various Moor camps was serving. He was then banned from working . From 1940 to 1942 he worked as a commercial clerk . In 1943 Joho was drafted into the Wehrmacht's 999 Penal Battalion . Joho fell into British captivity , which he spent in Egypt and Great Britain and from which he returned to Germany in 1946 .

Joho settled in the Soviet occupation zone . From 1947 to 1954 he was editor of the weekly newspaper " Sonntag ". From 1954 to 1960 he lived as a freelance writer in Kleinmachnow ; from 1960 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine “ neue deutsche literatur ”. He was dismissed from this post in 1966 after differences with the SED leadership over the publication of excerpts from Werner Bräunig's novel Rummelplatz ; Joho then lived again as a freelance writer in Kleinmachnow.

Wolfgang Johos work consists mainly of novels , short stories and essays . The topic is often the development of bourgeois intellectuals and humanists to become anti-fascists and communists .

Wolfgang Joho was a member of the SED and the GDR Writers' Association .

Wilhelm Weitling. The ideas content of his writings, developed from the historical context . Buchdruckerei E. Bechstein, Inh. Wilh. Hinckel, Wertheim am Main 1932
The shepherd's flute , Berlin 1947
End of all captivity , Leipzig 1949
Jeanne Peyrouton , Berlin 1949
The Metamorphoses of Doctor Brad , Berlin 1949
A dozen and two , Berlin 1950
The way out of loneliness , Berlin 1953
Between Bonn and Lake Constance , Berlin 1954
Changes , Berlin 1955
Dream of justice. The life story of the journeyman, rebel and prophet Wilhelm Weitling , Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1956
The night of remembrance , Berlin 1957
The turning mark , Berlin 1957
Korea dries tears , Berlin 1959
There is no mercy , Berlin 1962
Uprising of the dreamers , Berlin [u. a.] 1966
The class reunion , Berlin [u. a.] 1968
The chestnut , Berlin [u. a.] 1970
Farewell to Parler , Berlin [a. a.] 1972
The son , Berlin [u. a.] 1974

Carsten Wurm: Joho, Wolfgang . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

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