‘Lob der Emigration’: Albin Stuebs
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Using a variety of archival materials and other, hitherto inaccessible sources, this chapter presents an account of the life and work of Albin Stuebs (1900–77). Stuebs was on the threshold of a promising literary career when, because of his communist convictions, he was forced into exile in 1933, first in Czechoslovakia and then in England. In Prague he published in Neue Deutsche Blätter, die neue Weltbühne, der Gegen-Angriff and other leading exile journals, but gradually grew disillusioned with communism. After escaping to England in late 1938, Stuebs spent eighteen months in internment in Australia (1940–41). After his release he worked for the BBC, broadcasting a series of programmes aimed at workers in Germany. In 1947 he returned to Germany where he worked for NWDR/NDR in Hamburg until 1963. His novels Romantisches Vorspiel (1946) and der wahre Jakob (1949), as well as plays such as Wir armen deutschen Brüder (1948) never achieved the literary prominence in post-war Germany for which he had hoped.