Wolfgang Duncker German Critic
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| Birthday |
5th February, 1909
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| Birthplace |
Stuttgart, Germany
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| Died |
20th November, 1942
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| Place of Death |
Vorkutlag, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius
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| Nationality |
German
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| Occupation Text |
Communist activist, journalist, film critic
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| Occupation |
Critic
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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, 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.
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