Bernhard Kellermann
Kellermann, Bernhard (Fürth, 1879-1951, nr. Potsdam), a journalist and foreign correspondent, wrote five novels between 1904 and 1913. Yester und Li (1904), sub-titled Geschichte einer Sehnsucht, records a poet's unexpressed and unfulfilled love. Ingeborg (1906), set in Russia, is also a story of frustrated love, and so, too, is Der Tor (1909), whose central figure, Vikar Grau, is attracted simultaneously to two women, loses one by death, and is rejected by the other. Das Meer (1910), set in Brittany, is a story of love and seduction against the background of the ocean. Der Tunnel (1913), Kellermann's one international bestseller, is a sensational technological work with elements of crude satire. During the 1914-18 War Kellermann was a war correspondent, writing, in addition to his newspaper columns, two longer accounts, Der Krieg im Westen (1915) and Der Krieg im Argonner Wald (1916), which are emotional and chauvinistic. Der neunte November (1920, the title refers to November 1918) and Die Brüder Schellenberg (1925, about a materialistic society) are satirical novels.
Kellermann was banned by the National Socialist regime, and after the 1939-45 War established himself in East Berlin. He was a co-founder and vice-president of the League for the Democratic Renewal of Germany (Kulturbund zur demokratischen Erneuerung Deutschlands). Aufsätze, Briefe, Reden 1945-51 appeared in 1952. Kellermann's novels include Die Stadt Anatol (1932), Das blaue Band (1938), Georg Wendtlands Umkehr (1941), and Totentanz (1948), on the experience of fascism. His only play deals with an episode in the Reformation: Die Wiedertäufer von Münster (1925). His selected works,
