Rudolf Braune was a German writer and journalist .
He was initially involved in the freethinking youth movement before joining the Communist Youth in 1924. In 1925, he and some school friends founded the satirical-political magazine "Mob" in Dresden, which was banned in July, after the fifth issue. The editors were arrested and interrogated, including Braune, who had since left school and started an apprenticeship as a bookseller. In April 1926, he went to Düsseldorf and continued his training as a bookseller at the "Julius Baedeker Book and Art Shop" on Königsallee. From 1927, he published sketches, poems and reports in the Düsseldorf KPD newspaper "Freiheit", initially as a trainee and later as a permanent editor. He devoted himself primarRudolf Braune was a German writer and journalist .
He was initially involved in the freethinking youth movement before joining the Communist Youth in 1924. In 1925, he and some school friends founded the satirical-political magazine "Mob" in Dresden, which was banned in July, after the fifth issue. The editors were arrested and interrogated, including Braune, who had since left school and started an apprenticeship as a bookseller. In April 1926, he went to Düsseldorf and continued his training as a bookseller at the "Julius Baedeker Book and Art Shop" on Königsallee. From 1927, he published sketches, poems and reports in the Düsseldorf KPD newspaper "Freiheit", initially as a trainee and later as a permanent editor. He devoted himself primarily to local cultural reporting and wrote film reviews. He subsequently published industrial reports, political poetry and glosses in other left-wing newspapers and magazines, such as Tucholsky's "Weltbühne", in the "Tagebuch", the "Linkskurve", the "Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung", the "Rote Fahne", but also in bourgeois newspapers such as the "Frankfurter Zeitung" and "Vossischen Zeitung". In addition, he increasingly worked as a storyteller and novelist.
His subject matter was the situation of workers and small employees, of young people looking for work in the modern city. In 1928, a longer story entitled "The Battle on the Kille" was published in "Freiheit" as a serial.
In 1930, his first novel, "The Girl at the Orga Privat", was published. He did not live to see the publication of his second novel, "Young People in the City"; shortly before its publication, on June 12, 1932, Braune drowned in the Rhine in Düsseldorf-Niederkassel on the left bank of the Rhine when he was caught in a whirlpool and carried away.
Although Braune's works have largely been forgotten as working-class literature , they are nevertheless considered to be important examples of the narrative New Objectivity in German literature due to their unusual stylistic confidence and, despite all bias, differentiated characterization and plot development....more
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