Guide to the Willi Bredel Papers, 1950-1976
Processed by Patricia Mazon; machine-readable finding aid created by Bill O'Hanlon, Sean Quimby, Michael Olson.
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The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Willi Bredel Papers, 1950-1976
Collection number: M0665
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
- Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
- URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
- Processed by:
- Patricia Mazon
- Date Completed:
- 1993 Dec.
- Encoded by:
- Bill O'Hanlon, Sean Quimby, Michael Olson
© 2001 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Bredel, Willi, 1901-1964. Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1950-1976
Collection number: M0665
Creator:
Bredel, Willi, 1901-1964
Extent:
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights
reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Purchased from Antiquariat Magister Tinius, Berlin, 1993.
Preferred Citation:
Willi Bredel Papers. M0665. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biography
A socialist writer known for his depictions of proletarian life, Bredel was born in Hamburg. He joined the Communist Party
at eighteen.
In 1928 he became editor of HAMBURGER VOLKSZEITUNG, and two years later he was sentenced to a two-year jail term for
"planning literary high treason." During this period he wrote his first novel, MASCHINENFABRIK N & K. Bredel was imprisoned
by
the Nazis from 1933 to 1934, and when released fled to Moscow, where he was one of the original founders of the "Nationalkomittee
'Freies Deutschland'" in 1943. After the war, Bredel settled in East Germany. He served as the editor of HEUTE UND MORGEN
(1947-1954) and NEUE DEUTSCHE LITERATUR (1953-1956). From 1956 unti his death in 1964, Bredel was a member of the
Central Committee of the East German Communist Party.
Scope and Content
The papers come from Bredel's secretary, Ursula Kilian, who worked for him from 1953 to 1964. Included are Bredel's notes
to
Kilian, as well as some carbon copies of her letters to him; Bredel's correspondence with others including Walter Janka and
Friedrich
Ebert; one letter from Bredel to Walter Ulbricht complaining that the paper allotment for his magazine had been suddenly cancelled;
and
a few items from Maj Bredel, Willi Bredel's wife.
Access Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
. 10$aBredel, Maj.
. 10$aEbert, Friedrich, 1894-1979.
. 10$aJanka, Walter, 1914-
. 10$aKilian, Ursula.
. 10$aUlbricht, Walter, 1893-1973.
. 0$aEast European literature.
. 0$aGerman literature--20th century.
. 0$aRevolutionary literature, German.
. 0$aSocialism in literature.
Bibliography
Willi Bredel,
Gesammelte Werke (Berlin, 1962-76).
L. Bock,
Willi Bredel. Leben und Werk (Berlin, 1990).
Box 1, Folder 1
Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1953
Box 1, Folder 2
Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1954
Box 1, Folder 3
Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1955
Box 1, Folder 4
Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1956
Box 1, Folder 5
Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1957
Box 1, Folder 6
Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1958
Box 1, Folder 7
Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1959
Box 1, Folder 8
Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1960
Box 1, Folder 9
Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1961
Box 1, Folder 10
Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1962
Box 1, Folder 11
Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1963
Box 1, Folder 12
Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1964 and exhibition invitation, 1976
Box 1, Folder 13
Maj Bredel-Killian correspondence, 1967
Box 1, Folder 14
Bredel-Killian correspondence-- cards, 1955
Box 1, Folder 15
Bredel-Killian correspondence-- cards, 1956
Box 1, Folder 16
Bredel-Killian correspondence-- cards, 1957
Box 1, Folder 17
Bredel-Killian correspondence-- cards, 1958
Box 1, Folder 18
Bredel-Killian correspondence-- cards, 1959
Box 1, Folder 19
Bredel-Killian correspondence-- cards, 1960
Box 1, Folder 20
Bredel-Killian correspondence-- cards, 1961
Box 1, Folder 21
Bredel-Killian correspondence-- cards, 1962
Box 1, Folder 22
Bredel-Killian correspondence-- cards, 1963
Box 1, Folder 23
Bredel-Killian correspondence-- cards, 1964
Box 1, Folder 24
Bredel-Killian correspondence, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 25
Bredel correspondence, 1950
Box 1, Folder 26
Bredel correspondence, 1951
Box 1, Folder 27
Bredel correspondence, 1952
Box 1, Folder 28
Bredel correspondence, 1953
Scope and Content Note
(includes one 3-page manuscript, "Zum internationalen Befreiungstag. Klaren Verstand- standhaften Charakter- Geduld.")
Box 1, Folder 29
Bredel correspondence, 1954
Box 1, Folder 30
Bredel correspondence, 1955
