Franz Carl pointing head

Franz Carl pointing head (aliases: Petr baked, Pierre baked, F. W. L. Kovacs, * 3. April 1900 in Prague; † 14. September 1955 in Berlin) was a German-speaking writer; usually only as F.C. Pointing head admits.

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Franz Carl pointing head was the son of a Jewish-German bank employee and a Czech nut/mother. It visited German-language schools in Prague and studied from 1919 to 1923 Germanistik and history at the university of its hometown. it attained a doctorate to 1923 to the doctor of philosophy. After it had already joined 1921 of the communist party of Czechoslovakia, it traveled 1926 for the first time to the Soviet Union. 1928 it moved to Berlin , where it editor of the feuilleton the newspaper „Berlin in the morning “became. In the same year he married Grete Berne home. It became member in „the federation of proletarian-revolutionary writers “and participated 1930 with Anna Seghers in a conference of revolutionary writers in Charkow in the Soviet Union .

After the seizure of power the national socialists returned pointing head 1933 to Prague , where he became editor-in-chief of the anti-fascist „workers pictorial newspaper “(AIZ). When the newspaper had to stop their appearance in October 1938, pointing head fled to Paris. From there out it succeeded to it in April 1939 alsoAssistance „of the League OF American Writers “for fleeing further into the United States. He spent the war years in New York.

After the end of the Second World War pointing head was in the diplomatic service of Czechoslovakia actively, at first as a message advice in Washington, D.C., 1949/50as an envoy in Stockholm and from 1950 to 1952 as Ambassadors in Peking. 1952 it returned to Prague , however already moved 1953 to east Berlin . In the last years its life it was member of the board of the writer federation of the GDR and gave together Willi Bredel the magazine „new one German literature “out.

Franz Carl of pointing head work consists of novels, narrations, reports, anecdotes, lyric poetry as well as essay. Its always realistic, the stylistic far erzählerischen works settled over average of other authors of socialist realism playusually in the middle class of Czechoslovakia and describe the way of solidarizing of citizens and workers since the First World War.

works

• a drum, Berlin beautiful mountain 1923
• the escape goes to France, Vienna [and. A.] 1926
• transferring in 21. Century,Berlin 1927
• who choice does not have, has the agony, Berlin 1928
• the dream of the hairdresser Cimbura, Berlin 1930
• the state without unemployed person, Berlin 1931 (together with Ernst Glaeser and Alfred Kurella)
• the Slawenlied, Berlin 1931
• future in the carcass, Berlin1932
• the stronger ones, Moscow [and. A.] 1934
• the temptation, Zurich 1937
• La tragédie tchécoslavaque, Paris 1939 (under the name Pierre baked)
• The untamed the Balkans, New York 1941 (under the name Frederic W. L. Kovacs)
• a new day ago, Mexico 1944
• Ascension Day command, Stockholm 1945
• the Unbesiegbaren, New York 1945
• under strange skies, Berlin 1948
• parting from the peace, Berlin 1950
• misery and size of our days, Berlin 1950
• the far sound, Berlin 1950
• humans, cities and year, Vienna of 1950
• children of theirTime, Berlin 1951
• the journey after canton, Berlin 1953
• the anecdote book, Berlin 1954
• from all four hoists, Berlin 1954
• defense of the German language, Berlin of 1955
• literary excursions, Berlin of 1956
• collected works, Berlin
  • Bd. 1. Parting from the peace, 1960
  • Bd. 2. In the midst of the river. World in blowing, 1960
  • Bd. 3. The Slawenlied. A new day ago, 1960
  • Bd. 4. Lissy. Ascension Day command, 1960
  • Bd. 5. Poems and Nachdichtungen, 1960
  • Bd. 6. Anecdotes and narrations, 1960
  • Bd. 7. Reports, 1960
  • Bd. 8. Over literature and language. Defense of the German language, 1960
• exchanges of letters 1942 - 1948, Berlin [and. A.] 1990 (with Bodo Uhse)

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• January days, Prague Karlin 1926
• Denise Leblond Zola: Zola, Berlin 1932
• dog-talk towers, new ones York of 1945
• gravel CH calendars, Berlin 1955

translations

• Czech songs, Berlin 1925
• the heart - a sign, London 1937
• singing of the yellow earth, Berlin 1951
• Chien Tien: The Tien Tschien song of the truck, Berlin 1953
• max of Švabinský: Butterfly time, Prague 1954

literature

• Franziska Arndt: Provisional bibliography of the literary work of and over Franz Carl pointing head (1900 - 1955), Berlin 1958 (together with Achim of Ro)
• Marianne meadow Mueller: Provisional identification book of the literary deduction of Franz Carl pointing head (1900 - 1955), Berlin
  • Bd. 1. Documents from the literary activity of F. C. Pointing head, 1958
• Grete pointing head (Hrsg.): Memories of a friend, Berlin 1963
• Franziska Arndt: F. C. Pointing head, Leipzig 1965
• Ludvík Václavek: F. C. Pointing head and Czechoslovakia, Praha 1965
• Irmfried Hiebel: F. C. Pointing head, writer and critic, Berlin [and. A.] 1973
• Petra Gallmeister: The historical novels of Franz Carl pointing head „parting from the peace " and “in the midst of the river “, Frankfurt/Main [and. A.] 1983
• peoples Haase: “One does not want to eliminate 70 million orkastrieren… “. A contribution to Franz Carl of pointing head Germany-political conceptions in the exile. In: Literary and political Germany concepts 1938-1949. Hrsg. of Gunther nickel, Goettingen 2004, S. 239-269

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