Erich Kuby

Erich Kuby (* 1910 in Baden-Baden; † 2005 in Venice) was German and Writer.

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Life

The early years

Kubys father had bought and had a landgut to 1901 in west Prussia after one year to give up. Thereupon it pulled to Munich and became acquainted with there his Mrs. Dora sweet child. Her son Erich was born 1910 in Baden-Baden.

1913 drew the family in the Upper Bavarian Voralpenland, where the father a yard took over again. Nevertheless Erich was allowed the High School to visit and late national economy study. On the school a critical Jewish teacher help it to his first conscious political learning experience. Its study locked it 1933 with a diploma.

Instead of emigrieren 1933, as it guessed/advised it its Jewish friend, preferred it to Kuby to remain. It wanted to observe and analyze the "purge process" of Germany from next proximity in critical distance. He worked after the study as a throwing assistant Blohm & Voss in Hamburg and began its impressions of the working sphere in literary form to process.

it took a position on to 1936 in Berlin with the book publishing house Scherl, of Hugenberg bought up was. 1938 he married the daughter citizens of Berlin of the political economist Hermann Schumacher. The sister of its wife was also marries. Were "loud Patrioten", how Kuby overwrote its biography later. During 2. World war it was used in France and Russia, where it wrote again the loading events down daily. After end of war it was only short to June 1945 in US shank.

Many writer Kuby, the prevented publisher

Thereupon Kuby was assigned by the American military government to issue newspaper licenses for trustworthy personalities. Among them such prominent publisher counts how , Axel Springer and .

The "Nestbeschmutzer of rank" ( however without own publishing house. 1947 it became from the Americans to the editor-in-chief of the magazine "the call. Critical sheets used for young humans ". The sheet was an establishment of and Hans's Werner judge, which had to again stop however because of to critical articles. Also Kuby was not issued it after one year better. Subsequently, he worked long time as an editor for those South German newspaper. Afterwards it wrote as free coworkers among other things for that , that Star, and those Frankfurt booklets. In its articles it referred a left and a liberal position and was an important voice against the German Rearmament and the plans for atomic armament.

Radio plays and film scripts

Beside its journalistic work it adapts society-critical materials for sound broadcasting and television. A radio play over the senseless defense of the fortress of by the armed forces an offense complaint of the responsible person of general brought it Hermann Bernhard Ramcke . Kuby had seen the destruction of Brest as a soldier. It became acquitted. A comprehensive and critically lit up interior opinion that Armed forces Kuby put with its war diary My war. forwards.

Kuby became famous by the film script for the film The girl Rosemarie (FRG , Gert Froebe and Peter van Eyck). Kubys collecting main appeared as book under the title Rosemarie. The German miracle dearest child.

The unsettled murder at the Frankfurt prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt , that formed the frameworks for a drama the double moral at present of the Wirtschaftswunders outlined. Kubys fictitious representation caught the spirit of the time at that time so realistically that its hypothetical version background over the murder by the public perception was to a large extent taken over. Even dramaturgische little things, like Nitribitts allegedly red sport Cabrio, the legendary Mercedes Benz SL 190, appear today in many sources as factual statement. The Nitribitt nitribitt-Roadster in such a way specified actually existed, in the reporting at that time was however still black it.

The moral conscience

Kuby was considered as one of the most important chroniclers of the Federal Republic of Germany, so that he was promoted also up to the beginning of the student movement 1967 to the moral conscience of the nation. He always reserved an party-independent judgement and did not shrink from themselves also at criticism with friends of like mind and former fellow combatants back, if it seemed necessary to him. Its analyses over that Star (1983) and that (1987) are still from lasting topicality.

Kuby lived last withdrawn into Venice, took part however always actively in the current in each case political debate. The "Homme de lettres" wrote until 2003 regularly for the weekly paper Friday those Column "the newspaper reader".

Erich Kuby was married twice and leaves his Mrs. Susanna Boehme, her common son Daniel as well as Thomas, Gabriele, Clemens and Benedikt from first marriage.

Honors

For its journalistic life's work Kuby became postum with that Kurt Tucholsky price the yearly 2005 excellently.

Works (selection)

  • (1957): That is German native country - 70 million in two waiting-rooms. Stuttgart: Joke & Goverts, 485 S.
  • (1959): Only smoking rubble. The end of the fortress Brest. Diary of the soldier Erich Kuby; with text of the hearing picture, final speech of the public prosecutor, reason of the judgement. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 198 S.
  • (1963): Franz Josef bunch: A type of our time. [ Mitarb.]: Eugen Kogon, petrols of lion star, Juergen Seifert. Vienna: Desch, 380 S.
  • (1963): & CO. To 150. Birthday of the master. Hamburg: Nannen, 155 S.
  • (1968): Prague and the left one. Hamburg: Concrete publishing house, 154 S., Ill.
  • (1982): Betrayal on German. As the third realm Italy ruined. [ over. from D. Ital. u. Engl.: Susanna Boehme ]. Hamburg: Hoping man and Campe, 575 S.
  • (1983): The case "star" and the consequences. Berlin: People and world, 206 S.
  • (1986): As Poland was German: 1939 - 1945. Ismaning with Munich: Hueber, 341 S.
  • (1987): in the mirror. The German news magazine; analyzes critically from Erich Kuby. Munich: Heyne, 176 S.
  • (1989): My annoying native country. Munich: Hanser, 560 S., linen, ISBN 3-446-15043-9
  • (1990): Germany: from indebted division to the undeserved unit. Rastatt: Moewig, 398 S.
  • (1991): German perspectives. Unfriendly side remarks. Hamburg: Concretely literature, 160 S. ISBN 3-89458-105-0
  • (1996): The newspaper reader. In week steps by the political landscape 1993-1995. Hamburg: Concretely literature, 160 S. ISBN 3-89458-145-X
  • (1996): Rosemarie. The German miracle dearest child. Berlin: Red book publishing house, 300 S., approx.. 10 Abb. ISBN 3-88022-493-5
  • (1996): Loud Patrioten. A German family history. Munich: Hanser, approx.. 240 sides, 50 Abb., geb. ISBN 3-446-15918-5
  • (2000): My war. Recordings from 2129 days. Berlin: Structure, 513 S. ISBN 3-7466-1588-7

Quotations

  • Publishers schluerfen their Champagner from the brain bowls of the journalists.

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Person data
NAME Kuby, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAME
SHORT DESCRIPTION German and Writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden, Germany
STERBEDATUM 2005
DYING PLACE Venice, Italy

 

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