Kurt Pinthus

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Kurt Pinthus (identified sometimes by his pseudonym as Paulus Potter: 29 April 1886 – 11 July 1975) was a German author, journalist, critic and commentator. Kurt Pinthus was born in Erfurt. He grew up in Magdeburg and Erfurt. His father Louis Pinthus (1852–1912) was a Jewish businessman, who married his mother Bertha Rosenthal (1864–1934) in 1885. Kurt attended the "Königliche Gymnasium" (as it was known at that time), one of the two church-sponsored secondary schools in Erfurt. In 1905 he embarked on his university career, studying successively at Freiburg, Berlin, Geneva and Leipzig: his focus was on History, History of literature and Philosophy. It was from Leipzig that he received his doctorate in 1910, supervised by Albert Köster (1862–1924). His other teachers during this period included the economic historian Karl Lamprecht (1856–1915), the literary historian Georg Witkowski (1863–1939), the literary expressionist Franz Werfel (1890–1945) and the expressionist poet and dramatist Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940), with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. In 1912 he took a job as a literary editor with the newly founded Kurt Wolff publishing house which brought him into contact with several literary stars of the age, including Franz Kafka, Georg Heym and Else Lasker-Schüler. In 1915 he was conscripted in connection with the war and sent to join then "Kasernendienst" in Magdeburg.