Paul Alverdes

Paul Alverdes (6 May 1897, Strasbourg - 28 February 1979, Munich) was a German novelist and poet.

The son of an officer and member of the German Youth Movement, he volunteered for duty in World War I and received a severe injury to the throat. After 1922 he was a freelance author in Munich, and from 1934 to 1944, along with , he edited and published the journal . Alverdes's work was influenced by the youth movement and by the World War I front experience, whose purifying and "transforming" power he praised. Nonetheless, he was only moderately popular with National Socialists because he lacked an "activist-dynamic attitude". After 1945 he mainly wrote stories for children.

Works[]

• Die Nördlichen (The Northerners; 1922)
• Die Pfeiferstube (The Whistler's Room; 1929)
• Reinhold oder die Verwandelten
• Die Freiwilligen (The Volunteers; 1934)
• Das Winterlager
• Eine Infanterie – Division bricht durch
• Deutsches Andenkenbuch
• Das Zwiegesicht
• Dank und Dienst. Reden und Aufsätze
• Märchen (Das Männlein Mittenzwei) (The Little In-Between Man; 1937)
• Grimmbarts Haus (Grimbart's House; 1949)
• Legende vom Christ-Esel (1953)
• Wenig Träum Pferde (1958) (Little Dream Horses)

References[]

• Furness, Raymond and Malcolm Humble (1991). "A Companion to Twentieth Century German Literature." London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-01987-7.
• Christian Zentner, Friedemann Bedürftig (1991). The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Macmillan, New York. ISBN 0-02-897502-2

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