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[[Image:Wolf_friedrich.jpg|right|frame|Friedrich Wolf.]]
'''Friedrich Wolf''' ([[December 23]], [[1888]] - [[October 5]], [[1953]]) was a [[Germany|German]] [[Physician|doctor]] and writer.
==Life==
Wolf was born in [[Neuwied]] ([[Rhine Province]]), the son of a Jewish merchant.
From [[1907]] until [[1912]] he studied [[medicine]], [[philosophy]] and [[art history]] in [[Munich]], [[Tübingen]], [[Bonn]], and [[Berlin]] and became a doctor in [[1913]]. In [[1914]] he worked first as a ship's doctor on the route between [[Canada]], [[Greenland]] and the [[United States]], and then in the same year became a field doctor on the [[Western Front]] in [[World War I]]; this experience made him a strong opponent of war. In [[1917]] he published his first [[prose]] pieces.
In [[1918]] he became a member of the [[Workers council|Workers Council]] in [[Dresden]] and joined the [[Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany]]. After the war he worked as a doctor in [[Remscheid]] and [[Hechingen]], where he focused on care for common people and prescribed treatment using [[naturopathic medicine]]. In [[1923]] and [[1925]] his sons [[Markus Wolf|Markus]] und [[Konrad Wolf|Konrad]] were born. After [[1928]] he became a member of the [[Communist Party of Germany|Communist Party]] and the [[Bund proletarisch-revolutionärer Schriftsteller|Group of Proletariat-Revolutionary Writers]]. In [[1929]] his drama "Cyankali" sparked a debate about [[abortion]], and he was briefly arrested and charged for performing abortions.
In early [[1932]] he founded the ''Spieltrupp Südwest'' in [[Stuttgart]], a [[communist]] [[agitprop]] group of lay actors that created controversial pieces about current topics.
After the [[Nazis]] came to power, Wolf emigrated with his family to [[Moscow]]. In [[1938]] he made his way to [[Spain]] to work as a doctor in the [[International Brigades]]. However, he was arrested in [[France]] and interned in the [[concentration camp]] [[Le Vernet]]. In [[1941]] he gained [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] citizenship and returned to Moscow where he became a founder of the [[Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland]] (National Committee for a Free Germany).
In [[1945]] he returned to Germany and was active in literary and cultural-political issues. From [[1949]] to [[1951]] he was the first [[ambassador]] of [[East Germany]] to [[Poland]]. On [[October 5]], [[1953]], he died in his personal office in [[Lehnitz]].
==Works==
*''Mohammed'' (1917, drama)
*"Langemarck" (1917, story)
*''Das bist du'' (1919, drama)
*''Der Unbedingte'' (1919, drama)
*''Die Schwarze Sonne'' (1921, drama)
*''Tamar'' (1922, drama)
*''Die Schrankkomödie'' (1923, drama)
*''Der Arme Konrad'' (1923, drama)
*''Das Heldenepos des alten Bundes'' (1924)
*''Kreatur'' (1925, novel)
*''Kolonne Hund'' (1926, drama)
*''Äther'' (1926)
*''Die Natur als Arzt und Helfer'' (1927)
*''Koritke'' (1927, drama)
*"Der Kampf im Kohlenpott" (1927, novella)
*''Cyankali" (1929, drama)
*''Die Matrosen von Cattaro" (1930, drama)
*''Tai Yang erwacht'' (1930, drama)
*''Professor Mamlock'' (1933, drama)
*''Floridsdorf'' (1934, drama)
*''Das trojanische Pferd'' (1935, drama)
*''Zwei an der Grenze'' (1938, novel)
*''Beaumarchais'' (1940, drama)
*"Der Russenpelz" (1942, novella)
*''Heimkehr der Söhne'' (1944, novel)
*''Dr. Lilli Wanner'' (1944, drama)
*''Was der Mensch säet'' (1945, drama)
*''Die letzte Probe'' (1946, drama)
*''Märchen für große und kleine Kinder'' (1946)
*''Wie Tiere des Waldes'' (1947, drama)
*''Der Rat der Götter'' (1949, filmscript)
*''Bürgermeister Anna'' (1949, comedy)
*''Menetekel'' (1952, novel)
*''Thomas Müntzer'' (1952, drama, film expose)
==External links==
*[http://www.friedrich-wolf-gedenkstaette.de/ Friedrich-Wolf-Gesellschaft e.V.]
*[http://www.geocities.com/martinkramerorg/JewishDiscovery2.htm Jewish Discovery of Islam] by [[Martin Kramer]], includes discussion of Wolf.
{{BD|1888|1953|Wolf, Friedrich}}
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