Wolfgang Duncker

Wolfgang Duncker
Born(1909-02-05)5 February 1909
Stuttgart, Germany
Died20 November 1942(1942-11-20) (aged 33)
Vorkutlag, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)Communist activist
journalist
film critic
SpouseErika Hartmann-Weiss (1907–2003)
ChildrenBoris Duncker
Parent(s)Hermann Duncker (1874–1960)
Käte Duncker (1871–1953)

Wolfgang Duncker (5 February 1909 – 20 November 1942) was a German film critic and journalist. The son of political activist parents, in 1929 he himself joined the Communist Party. After the Hitler government took power at the start of 1933 he emigrated, ending up in Moscow from August 1935. He took Soviet citizenship in August 1937 or January 1938, but was arrested by the security services in March 1938 and accused of spying. Sentencing followed on 8 June 1938. He died "of exhaustion" at the Vorkutlag labour camp 2,500 km / 1,600 miles north-east of Moscow,[1] slightly less than three years after his brother's suicide near New York City. Wolfgang Duncker's Swiss-born widow stayed on, working in a Soviet tank factory, and able to leave the Soviet Union with her two surviving children only at the end of 1945. She returned home to Basel in 1947.[2][3][4][5]

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  2. ^ "Biographische Angaben .... Wolfgang Duncker". Nachlass Hermann und Käte Duncker: Einleitung. Bundesarchiv, Koblenz. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  3. ^ Roel Vande Winkel (2010). "Mersus. Der Filmkritiker Wolfgang Duncker". Der Filmkritiker Wolfgang Duncker, Historical Journal of Film (Book Review). 30 (4): 562–563. doi:10.1080/01439685.2010.509983. S2CID 191475936.
  4. ^ Mario Keßler (21 January 2019). Zwischen Integration und Marginalisierung. Böhlau Verlag Köln. pp. 88–90. ISBN 978-3-412-50045-0. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. ^ "Wolfgang Duncker". Müller-Lüdenscheidt-Verlag, Bremen. 1942-11-20. Retrieved 26 January 2019.