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Alfred Karrasch , after 1945 under the pseudonym Alfred fine , (Born April 24, 1893 in Königsberg I. Pr.; † March 6, 1973 in Mittenwald) was a German writer and editor. [first]

After studying German studies, Karrasch was initially a journalist. Since 1922 at August Scherl’s publisher, he worked for the Berlin local Anzeiger, where he wrote court reports in particular by 1932. [2] On May 1st of this year he joined the NSDAP (member number 1.102.241). [3] [2] With the “seizure of power” in Hitler in 1933, the daily newspaper was increasingly based on the National Socialist ideology, and Karrasch’s contributions also adapted to this development. Especially under the heading “Reich capital” he wrote in the context of everyday experiences about “leader cult, folk community and struggle” [4] . In 1933, Karrasch was forced as a result of an internal examination of Otto Paust (for some time). [5] His job as a rapporteur at Scherl-Verlag lasted until 1939. [4]

Karrasch gave his novel debut in 1932 Winke, colorful pennant. A fishing history of the Curonian Spit – a novel that was also great success as a radio play and was filmed in 1937 by director Jürgen von Alten ( Homesickness ). In 1933, his second novel also appeared at Cotta-Verlag Stone, give bread! A chronicle of the struggle of our day. Is it Winke, colorful pennant Already crossed by elements of the Nazi ideology, but in Stone, give bread! “now clearly outweighs the combative and national socialist orientation”. [6] [7]

With the bestseller Party maker Schmiedecke. A time novel (1934) (in the Berlin Zeitgeschichte-Verlag) Karrasch then managed the final literary breakthrough: in the first year alone, 60,000 copies were sold, which in 1934 was second to the most bought books of the year. In addition, Karrasch received the Dietrich Eckart Prize of 5,000 RM for this novel together with Heinrich Anacker. [8] Despite the controversy about the ideological content of the work – the criticism referred primarily to an alleged communist tendency of the text [9] – the novel was mostly reviewed positively. [ten] To be seen as a propaganda text Party seeds Schmiedecke Karrasch delivers an “surprisingly precise translation of the fascist ideology into literary. Karrasch has transplanted the social demagogy of Hitlerism with radicalism in the fiction. ” [11]

Karrasch had great success with his radio plays as a playwright. [twelfth]

From 1935 he increasingly devoted himself to entertainment literature. The humorous privy novel Mr. Hans Kramer – at home! (1937), with his description of everyday life of a Berlin family, was also intended as an identification novel. Seggments of the Nazi ideology are subtle when it is pointed out to the combative of or against each other in the family and the value of the community: [13]

“There is no luck at all, no satisfaction, if that does not come from, the miracle of the we, the community, of the ego for – the other! ” [14]

After his novel The stars (1938) Milked Georg Wilhelm Pabst between 1944 and 1945 the crime film The Molander case (The cut of this film was not yet over when the Red Army was conquered. The whereabouts of the film material is unknown).

At the end of 1938 the family saga also appeared in the Berlin Zeitgeschichte-Verlag The undes – rise and decay of an East Prussian clan – A work that is “completely racist, anti -Semitic and social arginist.” [15] The extremely positive response regarding this book helped Karrasch to consolidate his position as a respected author in the “Third Reich”. His writer’s success enabled him an upscale lifestyle. He is said to have lived in a villa in the East Prussian resort of Rauschen from 1940 until his escape in early 1945. [16]

For the propaganda Christmas ring end 1940 of the Großdeutscher Rundfunk, he wrote a report on the transmission. [17]

From the end of March 1946, Karrasch and his wife lived in the Bavarian Mittenwald. In the course of the denazification procedure against Karrasch initiated in 1946, he assigned himself to the group of the “relieved” and stated “from 1933 to the end of unconditional use and […] Help for N.S.D.A.P. Persecuted, threatened u. [18] to have done. The saying chamber classified him as a “fellow runner” and imposed a fine of 500 RM. [19]

In 1952 Karrasch published the novel in the Zimmer & Herzog publishing house Dance of Death , which contains autobiographical features. [20] He had special success after the end of the “Third Reich” Passionate – a life novel Beethovens (1958) and his last novel Nobel – life novel by an inventor (1963). He released both works under the pseudonym Alfred Amenda. [21]

All novels of the writer published between 1933 and 1945 – except on Mr. Hans Kramer – at home! and The stars – were placed on the list of literature to be exploited in the Soviet occupation zone. [19] [22] [23]

  • The star song: a radio ballad around the violin maker Jakob Stainer. a 1925.
  • Party masters Schmiedecke: a time novel. 1934.
  • Winke, colorful pennant! A fishing history of the Curonian Spit . 1933. [24]
  • Stone, give bread -! : A chronicle of the struggle of our day . 1933. [25]
  • Mr. Hans Kramer – at home! A rather novel. 1937.
  • The undes: decay and rise of an East Prussian clan. 1938.
  • The stars. Roman, 1938.
  • Chronicle of the imperial capital. Together with Max Arendt, 1940.
  • Copernicus . 1944
  • Dance of Death . 1952
  • Madonna and Demon . 1954
  • Small night music in Mittenwald. A story in love . 1954
  • when Alfred fine : Appassionata. A life novel Beethoven. 1958. [26]
  • when Alfred fine : Nobel: Life novel by an inventor. 1963.
  • Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch, the “confidante of the workers”. In: Rolf Düsterberg (Hg.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Bd. 2.: Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology. Nine author portraits and an essay on literary societies to promote the work of Völkische poets. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-89528-855-5, pp. 107–142.
  1. ↑ Historical novel project: Alfred Karrasch , Database entry.
  2. ↑ a b Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 110.
  3. ↑ Federal Archives R 9361 -ix file/19360822
  4. ↑ a b Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 111.
  5. ↑ Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 114.
  6. ↑ Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 117.
  7. ↑ Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, pp. 115–117.
  8. ↑ Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 118.
  9. ↑ Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 107.
  10. ↑ Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 124.
  11. ↑ Hans Günther: Of men’s own spirit. selected Writings . Berlin: Structure 1981, p. 617. Cit. N. Haidar (2011), p. 126.
  12. ↑ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexikon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  13. ↑ Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 127.
  14. ↑ Alfred Karrasch: Mr. Hans Kramer – at home! Stuttgart, Berlin: Cotta 1937, S. 199 (?). Zit. n. Haidar (2011), S. 127.
  15. ↑ Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 130.
  16. ↑ Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, pp. 130f.
  17. ↑ Alfred Karrasch: Father Peitschat speaks to his six sons. In: School radio. Two weeks for educational work. Born 1940/41, Issue 22 (January 19, 1941), p. 426.
  18. ↑ State Archives Munich, Sprka, cardboard 4263, Karrasch Alfred. Cit. N. Haidar (2011), p. 132.
  19. ↑ a b Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 132.
  20. ↑ Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, pp. 131, 133f.
  21. ↑ Ute haidar: Alfred Karrasch – the confidante of the workers . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the “Third Reich”. Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 136.
  22. ↑ List of literature to be developed. 1946 – Transcript letter K. S. 203–239.
  23. ↑ List of literature to be developed.
  24. ↑ was filmed
  25. ↑ plays in East Prussia
  26. ↑ Hungarian version Udt: “Eroica”, first 1964; frequent re -run in several languages