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Bodo Uhse was born on 12 March, 1904 in Rastatt, German Empire, is a German writer, journalist and political activist (1904–1963). Discover Bodo Uhse's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

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Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 12 March 1904
Birthday 12 March
Birthplace Rastatt, German Empire
Date of death 2 July, 1963
Died Place East Berlin, German Democratic Republic
Nationality Germany

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1904

Bodo Uhse (12 March 1904 in Rastatt, Grand Duchy of Baden – 2 July 1963 in Berlin) was a German writer, journalist and political activist.

He was recognised as one of the most prominent authors in East Germany.

Uhse came from a Prussian Junker family with a long tradition of military service.

In his early years Uhse was associated with the agrarian movement and was considered to be on the far-right of this group.

This was evidenced by his involvement with the extremist Landvolkbewegung of Schleswig-Holstein.

1920

He took part in the right-wing Kapp Putsch in 1920.

1927

In 1927 he became a member of the Nazi Party as a protege of Gregor Strasser.

1930

He remained a member until 1930, when he joined the Communist Party of Germany under the influence of Bruno von Salomon (the elder brother of writer Ernst von Salomon).

During his Nazi membership he became editor to the Nazi party newspaper in Ingolstadt.

Uhse spent the rest of the 1930s in exile in Prague where he wrote for Neue Deutsche Blätter, a German language journal that was sympathetic to communism as well as in Paris with Bruno von Salomon.

During this time he was involved in the establishment of the Free German University, a Paris-based body that involved both the Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

1933

After the Reichstag fire in 1933 he fled to Paris, where he was in contact with Ernst Niekisch.

1935

At the first International Writers Congress in Paris in 1935 he met Bertolt Brecht and Johannes R. Becher (both of whom would also later become prominent East German writers).

1936

In 1936 Uhse was one of a number of exiled dissidents to be declared ausgebürgert (deprived of German citizenship) by the Nazi regime.

During the Spanish Civil War, he served as an officer in the International Brigades and wrote regularly about the conflict, with some of his work even smuggled into Nazi Germany.

1939

In 1939, he accepted an invitation from the League of American Writers to join some other German dissidents in the United States but, despite settling there briefly, Uhse and other communist writers soon left, feeling uncomfortable in the United States due to the prevalence of anti-communist attitudes.

1940

Uhse finally settled in Mexico in 1940, becoming part of a large group of emigrant German writers and thinkers who made their home in the capital Mexico City.

Within Mexico City Uhse found a number of like-minded exiles including Alexander Abusch, Ludwig Renn and Egon Erwin Kisch.

1942

Here he co-founded the influential exile journal Freies Deutschland along with Renn, Kisch and André Simone, and served as co-editor of this review from its 1942 foundation.

1944

His experiences in Spain and as a former member of the Nazi Party led him to write the 1944 novel Leutnant Bertram, which dealt with a Condor Legion pilot switching sides to the Republicans.

The novel was a success and was translated into several languages.

1945

After marrying the Jewish Lithuanian-American divorcee Alma Agee (second wife of James Agee) in 1945, Uhse left Mexico in 1948 to settle in East Germany, where he immediately joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

1949

He became the editor in chief of the East German monthly cultural journal Aufbau in 1949, holding the position until 1958 when he was sacked as part of a wider purge of East German cultural life.

1950

Uhso was a member of the People's Chamber and became the first chairman of the German Writers' Association, a position that he held from 1950 to 1952.

1954

In 1954 Uhse joined the Literature Section of the German Academy of Arts, the most influential cultural body in the East.

1957

His time in Mexico was chronicled in his diary, Mexicanische Erzahlungen, published in 1957.

1963

In 1963 he was appointed editor-in-chief of the influential literary magazine Sinn und Form.

Uhse, who was suffering from severe ill health due to a lifetime of heavy drinking and smoking, died after only a few months in the post.

1981

His stepson Joel Agee later wrote a memoir about his family life, Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany (1981).