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Max Walter Schulz
Max Walter Schulz (31 October 1921 – 15 November 1991) was an East German author and part of that country's literary establishment. Life Max Walter Schulz was born in Scheibenberg, a small town in the Ore Mountains, Erzgebirge mining district in the mountains south of Chemnitz. His father was an office worker. He attended primary school and enrolled at Gymnasium (Germany), secondary school, but appears to have left before completing the course. He was conscripted for military service, serving in the Wehrmacht, army between 1939 and 1945. During the final part of his military service he was held by the United States Army, Americans as a prisoner of war. End of World War II in Europe, Military defeat left the western two thirds of Germany divided into Allied-occupied Germany, four separately administered military occupation zones. Schulz's home region was now Soviet Military Administration in Germany, administered as part of the Soviet occupation zone, and it was to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (german: Bundesarchiv) are the National Archives of Germany. They were established at the current location in Koblenz in 1952. They are subordinated to the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Claudia Roth since 2021) under the German Chancellery, and before 1998, to the Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany), Federal Ministry of the Interior. On 6 December 2008, the Archives donated 100,000 photos to the public, by making them accessible via Wikimedia Commons. History The federal archive for institutions and authorities in Germany, the first precursor to the present-day Federal Archives, was established in Potsdam, Brandenburg in 1919, a later date than in other European countries. This national archive documented German government dating from the founding of the North German Confederation in 1867. It also included material from the older German Confederation and the Imperial Chamber Court. The oldest documents i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutscher Schriftstellerverband
Deutscher Schriftstellerverband (DSV, "German Writers' Union") was an East German association of writers. It was founded in 1950 and renamed in 1973 as Schriftstellerverband der DDR. The association considered itself an heir to the earlier traditions of the SDS (, "Protection League of German Writers") which had flourished in the 1920s but then, after 1933, been forced into line under the Hitler dictatorship and, in July 1933, found itself subsumed into the "National Association of German Writers" ('' Reichsverband deutscher Schriftsteller''), a Nazi mandated successor organisation between 1933 and 1945. The DSV archives are now in the Academy of Arts Berlin. Presidents *Bodo Uhse (1950–1952) *Anna Seghers (1952–1978) *Hermann Kant (1978–1990) *Rainer Kirsch (1990) See also *"Die Lösung", which mentions the Schriftstellerverband {{Authority control Organizations established in 1950 Organisations based in East Germany East German literature East Germany E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wiens
Paul Wiens (17 August 1922 – 6 April 1982) was a German poet, translator and author of radio plays and screenplays in the German Democratic Republic. Life Wiens was born in Königsberg to a Jewish mother. However, he spent his childhood in Berlin until his mother emigrated to Switzerland in 1933 after the "Machtergreifung" by the National Socialists. After passing his school-leaving exams, he took up philosophy studies in Geneva and Lausanne. In 1943, Wiens was arrested in Vienna for Wehrkraftzersetzung and imprisoned in Sankt Pölten, St. Pölten and in (1938-1954 Vienna, otherwise Lower Austria) until the end of the war. After the end of the Second World War, he returned to Berlin in 1947 via Weimar, where he worked as an editor and translation editor at Aufbau-Verlag until 1950. Along the way, he published his first poems and youth songs (''Begeistert von Berlin'', 1952). From 1952 onwards, he was a freelance writer and wrote mainly poetry and texts for mass songs. Wiens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinn Und Form
''Sinn und Form'' (German: ''Sense and Form'') is a bimonthly literary and culture magazine. It was launched in East Berlin, East Germany, in 1949 and is still in circulation. The magazine describes itself as one of the definitive cultural journals in Germany. History and profile The magazine was established by Johannes R. Becher and Paul Wiegler in 1949. The original title was ''Maß und Wert'' (German: ''Measure and Value''). When it was published in the East Germany, the magazine was employed by the ruling party, Socialist Unity Party, as a media outlet for its cultural policy. However, the magazine was not enthusiastic about this relationship. Because since its start it has had a unique style which is apolitical. It covers articles on poetry and philosophy, anthropology and theology and the relations between art and science. It provides essays, poems, stories, diaries, letters and conversations on these topics. In 1975 a novel by Volker Braun entitled ''Unvollendete Geschic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Editor In Chief
An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing editor, or executive editor, but where these titles are held while someone else is editor-in-chief, the editor-in-chief outranks the others. Description The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members and managing them. The term is often used at newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, and television news programs. The editor-in-chief is commonly the link between the publisher or proprietor and the editorial staff. The term is also applied to academic journals, where the editor-in-chief gives the ultimate decision whether a submitted manuscript will be published. This decision is made by the editor-in-chief after seeking input from reviewers selected on the basis of re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Unity Party Of Germany
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (german: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, ; SED, ) was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from the country's foundation in 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989. It was a Marxist–Leninist communist party, established in 1946 as a merger of the East German branches of the Communist Party of Germany and Social Democratic Party of Germany. The GDR was effectively a one-party state. Other institutional popular front parties were permitted to exist in alliance with the SED; these parties included the Christian Democratic Union, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Farmers' Party, and the National Democratic Party. These parties were largely subservient to the SED, and had to accept the SED's "leading role" as a condition of their existence. Long one of the most rigidly Stalinist parties in the Soviet bloc, the SED rejected the liberalisation policies o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Institute For Literature
The German Institute for Literature (German: ''Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig'', DLL) is a part of Leipzig University and offers university education for writers. It was founded in 1955 under the name Johannes R. Becher-Institut, at that time in the GDR . Among the noted writers who graduated from the school are Heinz Czechowski, Kurt Drawert, Adolf Endler, Ralph Giordano, Kerstin Hensel, Sarah and Rainer Kirsch, Angela Krauß, Erich Loest, Fred Wander, Clemens Meyer, Juli Zeh, Kristof Magnusson, Anna Kaleri, Volker Altwasser and Werner Bernreuther. Closed in 1990, the institute was refounded in 1995. Currently, Ulrike Draesner, Kerstin Preiwuß and Michael Lentz Michael Lentz (born 1964) is a German author, musician, and performer of experimental texts and sound poetry. Life Lentz was born in Düren. His father (1927–2014) was city manager () of Düren. Lentz completed his ''Abitur'' at the in 1983 ... are professors. External links * (German) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Zimmering
Max Zimmering (16 November 1909 – 15 September 1973), was a German writer. Life Max Zimmering was born as a son of a clock maker in Pirna, Saxony. From 1914, he lived with an uncle in Dresden since his father would be drafted into the military and his mother had to move to Vienna because of her sickness. He attended the Volksschule in Dresden from 1916 to 1921, the Wettiner Gymnasium in Dresden from 1921 to 1924 and the ''Oberrealschule'' in the Johannstadt section of Dresden from 1925 to 1930 where he took his Abitur. From age 10 through 18 he was a member of the '' Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands'' (KJVD) (Hiker's Group Blue-White and Boy Scout Group Kadimah). He would become a member of the trade union in 1928 and joined the Young Communist League of Germany. Since this time he was also an active writer. At first he wrote poems, short prose works and comments for the worker's papers (''Arbeitstimme'' in Dresden, ''Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung'' in Berlin, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group Of Soviet Forces In Germany
The Western Group of Forces (WGF),. previously known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (GSOFG). and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG),. were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany. The Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany was formed after the end of World War II in Europe from units of the 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts. The group helped suppress the East German uprising of 1953. After the end of occupation functions in 1954 the group was renamed the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. The group represented Soviet interests in East Germany during the Cold War. After changes in Soviet foreign policy during the late 1980s, the group shifted to a more defensive role and in 1988 became the Western Group of Forces. Russian forces remained in the eastern part of Germany after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification until 1994. History The Group of Soviet Occupation Forces, Germany was formed after the end of World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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