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Johannes-R.-Becher-Medaille
The Johannes-R.-Becher-Medaille was a civil decoration of East Germany created in homage to the poet and politician Johannes R. Becher. It was awarded by the Cultural Association of the GDR. Description The medal is made of bronze, with a diameter of four centimetres. and shows on the obverse side a portrait of Johannes R. Becher surrounded by his name written in capital letters. Award conditions It rewarded services "for the development of socialist culture in the GDR". It was awarded to individuals and communities from 1961 onwards for achievements in the fields of arts and culture, but also sports and recreation. The Johannes R. Becher Medal had three levels: bronze, silver and gold.. The award ceremony usually took place on 22 May, Johannes R. Becher's birthday. Recipients * 1961: Anna Seghers, Nathan Notowicz * 1962: Hans Pischner, Ehm Welk, (Silver) * 1963: Walter Womacka * 1964: Gret Palucca (Gold), Dieter Noll * 1965: (Gold) * 1966: Harry Hindemith (Gold), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orders, Decorations, And Medals Of East Germany
Following the 1949 establishment of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the new state prohibited the wearing of all pre-1945 German decorations and created a new system of awards inspired in part by those of the USSR. After German reunification in 1990, the wearing of East German decorations was not forbidden with the exception of those considered to be in breach of public order such as decorations of the Ministry for State Security, Border troops, , Combat Groups, and Free German Youth (FDJ).Bernzen, Enno; Feder, Klaus H.: Das Tragen von Auszeichnungen der DDR im vereinten Deutschland. In: Deutsch-deutsche Rechts-Zeitschrift (DtZ) 1995 Honorary titles State prizes State orders State medals Military and para-military decorations Civilian decorations Ministerial and associative awards Ministry of National Defence Ministry of Education Combat Groups of the Working Class of the GDR Society for Sports and Technology Free German Youth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marja Kubašec
Marja Kubašec (; ) was a Sorbian writer who is considered by literary historians to be the first woman to write novels in Upper Sorbian. Working as a schoolteacher, she wrote theatre plays, short stories, biographies, and novels dealing with the history of the Sorbian people. Born into a family of farmers in a village near Bautzen in the German Empire, she completed her teacher training in 1911 with a focus on history and foreign languages at the . Save for a brief period after the Second World War, she taught in a succession of schools in Saxony until the end of her working life in 1956. During her retirement, Kubašec focused increasingly on her writing. Her first literary production was ''Wusadny'' ('The Outcast'), a serial novella published in a newspaper between 1922 and 1923. She published her first dramatic work in 1926, a historical play entitled ''Chodojta'' ('The Witch'). A collection of short stories, ''Row w serbskej holi'' ('The Grave in the Sorbian Heath') ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Kahlau
Heinz Kahlau (6 February 1931 - 6 April 2012) was a German writer. He is remembered as one of the best known lyric poets in the German Democratic Republic. He wrote song lyrics, dramas and prose pieces. He was particularly well known for his popular love poems. At the time of his death the Leipziger Volkszeitung (newspaper) reported that around four million copies of volumes of his poetry had been sold. Life Heinz Kahlau was born into a working-class family at Drewitz, a small town at that time just outside Potsdam. After leaving school in 1945 he worked as an unskilled labourer in various sectors, at one stage as an electrician and at another as a "wood turner". In 1948 he obtained a job driving a tractor. By this time the war had ended, with a large strip of territory in the centre of the country - which included Potsdam - administered, since May 1945, as the Soviet occupation zone. In 1948 he took a job as an official of the Free German Youth (''"Freie Deut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedwig Voegt
Hedwig Therese Dorothea Henriette Voegt (28 July 1903, Hamburg, German Empire - 14 March 1988, Leipzig, Eastern Germany) was a German literary scholar who obtained a doctorate in German-Jacobin literature when she was 49 and became a university professor at Leipzig University. While she was a younger woman, modest family circumstances ruled out an academic career. During the 1920s she worked for the post office in Hamburg as a telegrapher and became a political activist ( KPD), serving at least three prison terms during the twelve Nazi years because of her resistance to the régime. Life Hedwig Therese Dorothea Henriette Voegt was born in the central Hamburg quarter of St. Pauli. Her father was a plumber. Despite her obvious intelligence, she received only basic schooling before moving on to train for clerical work in the dispatches department of the Hamburg Telegraph Union. She moved on again, in 1920, to work for the post office. In 1925 Hedwig Voegt joined the Communist Party. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Notowicz
Nathan "Noto" Notowicz (31 July 1911 – 15 April 1968) was a German musicologist and composer. Leben Born in Tyczyn, Notowicz was the son of a merchant. The family moved to Munich in 1913, where Notowicz attended primary schools. In Düsseldorf he studied at the conservatory, among others musicology with Ernst Bücken and composition with Hermann Unger, and became a teacher for music theory in 1932. After the Machtergreifung by the Nazis, he emigrated to Amsterdam in 1933, where he studied with Willem Andriessen and Stefan Askenase and worked as a music teacher and musician. At the same time, he was active in the communist resistance in Holland; in 1940 he joined the KPD and was head of the KPD group in Holland in 1944/45 under the alias "Gerard Fischer". In 1946, he returned to Germany. First he worked as a KPD functionary in Düsseldorf; in 1948, he moved to the Soviet occupation zone in the DDR founded the following year, he worked as a musicologist and composer. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Womacka
Walter Womacka (22 December 1925 – 18 September 2010) was a German Socialist Realist artist. His work was pioneering early German Democratic Republic (GDR) aesthetics. Biography Walter Womacka was born on 22 December 1925 in Horní Jiřetín, Czechoslovakia. He lived in East Berlin for most of his life. During World War II he did military service. Between 1946 and 1951, he studied art in Braunschweig, Weimar, and Dresden in Germany. In 1954, he moved back to Berlin. Womacka was the head of the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin (former German name: Hochschule für Bildende und Angewandte Kunst Berlin-Weißensee), from 1968 until 1988. He had many notable students, including Georg Baselitz. In 1962, he created his most famous work, the oil painting "Am Strand", in which his daughter and younger brother were models. This work was a best selling reproduction, it was also used for German postage stamps. In the post-war rebuilding of Berlin, he designed many large public artwor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annemarie Auer
Annemarie Auer (10 June 1913 - 7 February 2002) was a German author and literary scholar. Life Annemarie Auer was born in Neumünster and grew up in nearby Kiel on Germany's north coast. After the war her father took part in the 1918 Kiel mutiny. She passed her school final exams (Abitur) in 1933, which at least for a man would have been expected to open the way to a university level education. Auer embarked on an apprenticeship in the book trade in which she then, till 1943, worked. On the day the war broke out, by which time she was working in a Berlin bookshop, she met the Austrian author and translator Eduard Zak whom she subsequently married. In 1943 she was conscripted for work in the munitions industry. War ended in 1945, leaving the western two thirds of Germany administered as four large military occupation zones. The easternmost of these, including the eastern half of Berlin itself, was administered as the Soviet occupation zone: it was in this easter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Paulick
Richard Paulick (7 November 1903 – 4 March 1979) was a German architect with political connections. In professional terms his most productive period, frequently overlooked in western sources, may have been the time he spent in Shanghai between 1933 and 1949. He has been described as the "father of East-German Plattenbau" (construction). In the eyes of admirers he was nevertheless able to bring an element of "humanisation" to the economics-driven low-cost high-density post-war reconstruction of East Germany. Life Provenance and early years Richard Paulick was born at Roßlau, a small manufacturing town near Dessau (with which, more recently, it has been merged for administrative purposes) some 40 km / 25 miles north of Leipzig. His father, also named Richard Paulick (1876-1952), was a trades unionist employed, as a young man, at the KPM (porcelain) factory in Berlin, about an hour to the north-east by train. Richard Paulick, the father, wrote for the ''Anh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Ihering
Herbert Ihering (also sometimes Herbert Jhering: 29 February 1888 – 15 January 1977) was a German dramaturge, director and theatre critic. He was seen by many contemporaries as one of the leading theatre critics during and after the Weimar Germany, Weimar years. He was one of the earliest supporters in print of Bertolt Brecht, which formed one basis for a long period of very public disagreement - which sometimes degenerating into journalistic feuding - with Alfred Kerr. Later Ihering incurred the enmity of the dramatist Klaus Mann, who was widely believed to have incorporated Ihering in his novel "Mephisto (novel), Mephisto" as the opportunistic theatre critic and gossip Dr Ihrig (in later editions Dr. Radig). Although chiefly remembered for his work as a theatre (and film) critic, Ihering also published other forms of writing, and took jobs inside the theatre, working as a dramaturge and in other supportive positions. Life Herbert Georg Albrecht Gustav Ihering was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Dittus
Barbara Dittus (11 July 1939 – 25 June 2001) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than ninety films from 1959 to 2001. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dittus, Barbara 1939 births 2001 deaths People from Guben German film actresses German television actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Awards And Decorations Of Germany
Civil may refer to: * Civic virtue, or civility *Civil action, or lawsuit * Civil affairs *Civil and political rights * Civil disobedience *Civil engineering * Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism *Civilian, someone not a member of armed forces * Civil law (other), multiple meanings * Civil liberties * Civil religion * Civil service *Civil society *Civil war A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ... * Civil (surname) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Fedin
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin ( rus, Константи́н Алекса́ндрович Фе́дин, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈfʲedʲɪn, a=Konstantin Alyeksandrovich Fyedin.ru.vorb.oga; – 15 July 1977) was a Soviet and Russian novelist and literary functionary. Biography Born in Saratov of humble origins, Fedin studied in Moscow and Germany and was interned there during World War I. After his release, he worked as an interpreter in the first Soviet embassy in Berlin. On returning to Russia, he joined the Bolsheviks and served in the Red Army. After leaving the Party in 1921, he joined the literary group called the Serapion Brothers, who supported the Revolution, but wanted freedom for literature and the arts. His first story, "The Orchard," was published in 1922, as was his play ''Bakunin v Drezdene'' (Bakunin in Dresden). His first two novels are his most important; ''Goroda i gody'' (1924; tr. as ''Cities and Years'', 1962, "one of the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
