Paul Alverdes


Paul Alverdes 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 Karl Benno [von Mechow], he edited and published the journal Das innere Reich. 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
  • Die Pfeiferstube
  • Reinhold oder die Verwandelten
  • Die Freiwilligen
  • Das Winterlager
  • Eine Infanterie – Division bricht durch
  • Deutsches Andenkenbuch
  • Das Zwiegesicht
  • Dank und Dienst. Reden und Aufsätze
  • Märchen
  • Grimmbarts Haus
  • Legende vom Christ-Esel
  • ''Wenig Träum Pferde''