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Jan Petersen | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of Petersen taken during the IV German Writers' Congress in 1956 | |
| Born | Hans Schwalm July 2, 1906 |
| Died | November 11, 1969 (aged 63) |
| Resting place | Müggelheim |
Jan Petersen (German pronunciation: [jaːn ˈpeːtɐzn̩]; 2 July 1906 – 11 November 1969) was a German writer who was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), leader of the Association of Proletarian-Revolutionary Authors, and a participant in the German resistance to Nazism who recorded daily life during the Gleichschaltung.[1]
Biography
[edit]Early years
[edit]Petersen was born as Hans Schwalm to a working-class family in Berlin, Germany.
Our Street
[edit]The manuscript for the book Our Street was written over the course of 1933-4. Petersen typed the majority of the book in a room he rented in Mitte, while other sections were produced in Oranienburg. In total he made three copies of the manuscript.[4] Article about Faber & Faber edition.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Petersen was friends with fellow German writer Anna Seghers. On her return to Germany in 1947 he described her work as profound and insightful in the revived literature journal Die Weltbühne.[6]
Work
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Anti-Nazi Resistance: Jan Petersen". Community Languages.
- ^ Pilsworth, Ellen (2021). "Four responses to Nazism" (PDF). Journal of the British Academy. 9: 59–72. doi:10.5871/jba/009.059.
- ^ Zachau, Reinhard (2017). "Writing under National Socialism". In Webber, Andrew J. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin. Cambridge University Press. pp. 111–129. doi:10.1017/9781107449466.008.
- ^ Petersen, Jan (1961). "Introduction to the Seven Seas Books Edition of "Our Street"". Our Street: A Chronicle of Only Yesterday. Translated by Rensen, Betty. German Democratic Republic: Seven Seas Books. pp. 8–12.
- ^ Flood, Alison (18 February 2010). "Faber republish novel smuggled out of Nazi Germany in a cake". The Guardian.
- ^ Brockmann, Stephen (2019). "Anna Seghers and the Struggle to Tell Stories about the Nazi Past in the Early German Democratic Republic". In Boney, Kristy R.; William, Jennifer Marston (eds.). Dimensions of Storytelling in German Literature and Beyond: "For Once Telling it All from the Beginning". Boydell & Brewer. pp. 55–69. doi:10.1017/9781787444386.005. ISBN 9781787444386.