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List Of East German Authors
This is a list of notable East German authors. They spent at least part of their lives in the Soviet occupation zone (1945 to 1949) of post-war Germany or in the German Democratic Republic (1949 to 1990). At least part of their notable work was on East German topics, irrespective of where and when it was published. A :*Alexander Abusch (1902–1982) :*Bruno Apitz (1900–1979) :*Annemarie Auer (1913–2002) B :* Helmut Baierl (1926–2005) :*Kurt Barthel (1914–1967) :*Johannes R. Becher (1891–1958) :*Lilly Becher (1901–1978) :*Jurek Becker (1937–1997) :*Wolf Biermann (born 1936) :* Brigitte Birnbaum (born 1938) :*Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965) :* Inge Borde-Klein (1917–2006) :*Thomas Brasch (1945–2001) :*Volker Braun (born 1939) :* Werner Bräunig (1934–1976) :*Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) :*Willi Bredel (1901–1964) :*Elfriede Brüning (1910–2014) :*Günter de Bruyn (1926–2020) C :*Hanns Cibulka (1920–2004) :* Walter Czollek (1907–1972) E :*Gabriele E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Occupation Zone
The Soviet Occupation Zone ( or german: Ostzone, label=none, "East Zone"; , ''Sovetskaya okkupatsionnaya zona Germanii'', "Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany") was an area of Germany in Central Europe that was occupied by the Soviet Union as a communist area, established as a result of the Potsdam Agreement on 1 August 1945. On 7 October 1949 the German Democratic Republic (GDR), commonly referred to in English as East Germany, was established in the Soviet Occupation Zone. The SBZ was one of the four Allied occupation zones of Germany created at the end of World War II with the Allied victory. According to the Potsdam Agreement, the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (German initials: SMAD) was assigned responsibility for the middle portion of Germany. Eastern Germany beyond the Oder-Neisse line, equal in territory to the SBZ, was to be annexed by Poland and its population expelled, pending a final peace conference with Germany. By the time forces of the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Bräunig
Werner Bräunig (May 12, 1934 – August 14, 1976) was a German author. He is best known for his posthumously published novel ''Rummelplatz'' (German for ''"Fairground"''). The novel was to be part of a Communist Party campaign to establish a new kind of working class literature by encouraging talented labourers to write fiction about their everyday lives. Bräunig started work on his only novel ''Rummelplatz'' in 1960. The novel deals with work in the Soviet owned uranium mines of the Wismut AG and covers the time span from the foundation of the GDR in 1949 to the uprising in East Germany on June 17, 1953. Though the novel clearly shows the author's conviction that capitalism always ends up in Fascism and therefore communism is the only chance for mankind, the preprinted chapters of the book were heavily criticized by the 11th plenum of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany as defaming the working class and the Soviet Union. In contrast to official pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Fuchs (writer)
Jürgen Fuchs (19 December 1950 – 9 May 1999) was an East German writer and dissident. Biography Jürgen Fuchs was born and raised in Reichenbach im Vogtland. After his military service, he began to study social psychology at the University of Jena in 1971. In 1973, he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), the ruling party of East Germany in order to study the system from inside. At the same time he published dissident poems and prose. This led to his forceful disenrollment from the university shortly before graduation and his expulsion from the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1975. Fuchs married his wife Lieselotte in 1974. His daughter Lili was born in 1975 in Jena. In the summer of 1975 the family moved to Berlin where Fuchs became a social worker in a church charity, one of the few work options for a political dissident. Following his protest against the deprivation of East German citizenship of Wolf Biermann, he was arrested November 19, 1976. Fuchs spent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Rudolf Fries
Fritz Rudolf Fries (19 May 1935 – 17 December 2014) was a German writer and translator. Life Fritz Rudolf Fries was born in Bilbao, Spain. His mother was a German of Spanish descent, and his father a German businessman who was shot during the Second World War by Italian partisans. In 1942 the family moved to Leipzig, a city which was heavily bombarded at the end of the war. After studying English and Romance literature under Werner Krauss and Hans Mayer at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig, he became a freelance translator from English, French and Spanish (Calderón, Cervantes, Neruda, Buero Vallejo and others), an interpreter (in Prague and Moscow, and elsewhere) and a writer. In 1964 he travelled to Cuba. He also made his name as editor of a four-volume edition of the works of Jorge Luis Borges. From 1960 to 1966 he worked as an assistant with Werner Krauss at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin. ''Das Luftschiff'' was filmed by Rainer Simon. In 1972 he became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingeborg Feustel
Ingeborg Feustel (born Ingeborg Baumann: 1 January 1926 - 23 November 1998) was a German writer of books for children. She also wrote scripts for children's radio and television dramas. Until 1989 the small town where she lived and worked was in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany); but even before reunification her work was well known on both sides of the Inner German border. Life Ingeborg Baumann was born in Berlin. At school she was, by her own account, a rebellious child. From 1945 she was employed as a teacher in Blankenfelde-Mahlow, a small town just outside Berlin on the city's south side. She trained and worked under the " Neulehrer" scheme introduced in the aftermath of the Second World War by the military administrative bodies controlling the western two thirds of Germany between 1945 and 1949. She married Günther Feustel who also became a school teacher after the war. The Soviet occupation zone in which they lived together was relaunched as the German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Erpenbeck
Fritz Erpenbeck (born: Friedrich Johann Lambert Erpenbeck, 7 April 1897, Mainz – 7 January 1975, Berlin) was a German writer, director and actor. Biography Erpenbeck was born in to the family of a watchmaker and engineer. He trained as a locksmith in Osnabrück where he also took acting lessons. He volunteered for the in to the army during the First World War and after his return he continued working as a locksmith. Erpenbeck was in various engagements, including at the Lessingtheater and the Piscator stage in Berlin, where he also worked as a director and dramaturge. In 1927 he married the writer Hedda Zinner. From 1927 he was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1929 he also worked as a journalist; from 1931 to 1933 he was editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine ''Roter Pfeffer''. In 1933 he emigrated first to Prague, in 1935 to the Soviet Union with his wife. There he worked as an editor for various magazines and became a member of the National Committe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Erb
Elke Erb (born 18 February 1938) is a German author-poet based in Berlin. She has also worked as a literary editor and translator. Biography Family provenance and early years Elke Erb was born at Rheinbach, Scherbach (today part of Rheinbach) in the hills south of Bonn. Her parents had moved there with her uncle Otto and his family in 1937 in order, as her father put it, to "overwinter National Socialism". :de:Ewald Erb, Ewald Erb (1903–1978), her father, worked at the local tax office, having lost his academic post as a Marxist literary historian at the University of Bonn in Machtergreifung, 1933 on account of "Communist activities". Her mother Elisabeth worked on the land. Elke was the eldest of her parents' three daughters, all born in Scherbach between 1938 and 1941 when her father was conscripted for military service. Youngest of the three sisters is the author-poet Ute Erb. As a member of the Second World War, wartime Wehrmacht, German army :de:Ewald Erb, Ewald Erb was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Endler
Adolf Endler (20 September 1930 – 2 August 2009) was a lyric poet, essayist and prose author who played a central role in subcultural activities that attacked and challenged an outdated model of socialist realism in the German Democratic Republic up until the collapse of communism in the early 1990s. Endler drew attention to himself as the "father of the oppositional literary scene" at Prenzlauer Berg in the eastern part of Berlin. In 2005 he was made a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt. Early life and career A communist as a young man, Endler moved to East Germany in 1955 and studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature in Leipzig from 1955–57. An acclaimed poet, he was well respected in the East and West, but at the same time was marginalized and degraded by party functionaries who controlled the fields of cultural practice, conspired to guard their concepts of aesthetics, and went as far as to extend their influence into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriele Eckart
Gabriele Eckart (born March 23, 1954 in Falkenstein/Vogtl., Falkenstein/Vogtland), is a German author. Life Gabriele Eckart studied Philosophy from 1972 to 1976 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She concluded her studies with the completion of her Staatsexamen. In 1979 she took part in a writing course at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. After publishing two collections of her own poetry and a collection of travel memoirs, her next publication was supposed to have been a collection of interviews with people in Havelland. Small excerpts appeared in 1983 and 1984 in literature magazines in the German Democratic Republic, but the publication of the entire text, which contained numerous passages critical of relations in the German Democratic Republic, was prevented by government censorship. The book ''So sehe ick die Sache'' was therefore published openly only in West Germany. In 1987, Eckart used a visit to the Frankfurter Buchmesse to relocate to the Federal Repub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Czollek
Walter Czollek (8 April 1907 - 23 April 1972) was the head of the East German publishing house Verlag Volk und Welt between 1954 and 1972. In 1929, as a young man, he joined the Communist Party. He was detained in a succession of prisons and concentration camps between 1933 and 1939, at which point he was deprived of his citizenship. By 1939 it was no longer so easy as it had been earlier in the decade for Germany's political refugees to find refuge elsewhere in Europe, but he was able to emigrate to China where he supported himself with journalistic and translation work between 1939 and 1947. Life Walter Czollek was born in the Charlottenburg quarter of Berlin into a German-Jewish family. His father was a businessman. He had a conventional schooling, attending a Gymnasium (secondary school) locally and successfully completing his School final exams (''"Abitur"''). However, instead of progressing directly to university, in 1924 he embarked on a commercial apprenticeship, maste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanns Cibulka
Hanns Cibulka (20 September 1920, in Jägerndorf, Czechoslovakia – 20 June 2004, in Gotha, Germany) was a German poet and diarist A diary is a written or audiovisual record with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries have traditionally been handwritten but are now also often digital. A personal .... Works * 1954 ''Märzlicht. Gedichte'' * 1959 ''Zwei Silben. Gedichte'' * 1960 ''Sizilianisches Tagebuch'' * 1962 ''Arioso. Gedichte'' * 1963 ''Umbrische Tage'' * 1968 ''Windrose. Gedichte'' * 1971 ''Sanddornzeit. Tagebuchblätter von Hiddensee'' * 1972 ''Dornburger Blätter. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen'' * 1973 ''Lichtschwalben. Gedichte'' * 1974 ''Liebeserklärung in K. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen'' * 1977 ''Lebensbaum. Gedichte'' * 1978 ''Das Buch Ruth. Aus den Aufzeichnungen des Archäologen Michael S.'' * 1980 ''Der Rebstock. Gedichte'' * 1982 ''Swantow. Die Aufzeichnungen des Andreas Flemming'' * 1982 ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günter De Bruyn
Günter de Bruyn (; 1 November 1926 – 4 October 2020) was a German author. Life Günter de Bruyn was born in Berlin in November 1926; his father Carl was a Catholic from Bavaria. Günter served as a Luftwaffenhelfer and soldier in World War II. Wounded, he was then held in custody by the United States as a prisoner of war; after his release he found a job as a farm worker in Hesse. After his return to Berlin, he trained as a "new teacher" in Potsdam. Until 1949 he worked as a teacher in a village near Rathenow in Brandenburg. Subsequently, he trained as a librarian and worked at the ''Zentralinstitut für Bibliothekswesen'' (Central Institute for Library Knowledge) in East Berlin from 1953 to 1961. Since 1961 de Bruyn has lived as a freelance writer. From 1965 to 1978, he was a member of the ''Zentralvorstandes des Schriftstellerverbandes der DDR'' (Central Executive Committee of the Literary Association of East Germany); he was a member of the presidency of the PEN Centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
