Bernhard Seeger

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Bernhard Seeger at the annual meeting of the German Writers' Association in 1966

Bernhard Seeger (born October 6, 1927 in Roßlau an der Elbe , † March 14, 1999 in Potsdam ) was a German writer .

Life

Bernhard Seeger was the son of a locksmith . He attended middle school and then a teacher training college in Koethen . In 1944 he joined the NSDAP . After completing his work service in Zerbst , he took part in the Second World War in 1944/45 as a soldier in the Wehrmacht . From May to December 1945 he was in Soviet captivity .

After his return from captivity, Seeger completed a course for new teachers . In 1946 he joined the SED and the FDJ . Between 1946 and 1952 he worked as a teacher in village schools in the Mark Brandenburg . In 1952/53 he was an editor at Neues Leben ; from 1953 to 1956 he lived as a freelance writer in pieces near Potsdam . 1954/55 he stayed as a reporter in Vietnam ; then he was department head in the secretariat of the German Writers' Association and from 1957 freelance writer again.

In 1967 Seeger was unable to write for a long time due to a serious accident. After he had been a member of the Potsdam district leadership of the SED since 1964 , he was a member of the SED's central committee from 1967 . Between 1953 and 1972 he was an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR .

Bernhard Seeger wrote reports , stories , novels and poetry ; he was best known for his radio and television plays . Seeger's works, which are faithful to the line, deal primarily with problems during the development phase of GDR society; the work "Herbstrauch", which was highly praised by the GDR critics, about the collectivization of GDR agriculture in 1959/60 is strongly influenced by Scholochow's " Neuland unterm Pflug ". He was also active as a screenwriter, so he was involved in the 1963 television film Rauhreif .

Bernhard Seeger was a member of the German Writers' Association from 1952 and of the Academy of Arts (Berlin) from 1969 to 1991 . He received the following awards: 1956 the Theodor Fontane Prize of the Potsdam district , 1960 the Erich Weinert Medal , 1962 the Heinrich Mann Prize and the Literature Prize of the FDGB , 1963 and 1967 a national prize , 1968 the Johannes R. Becher Medal , 1969 the order “ Banner of Labor ”, 1981 and 1983 the art price of the FDGB , 1983 the Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR and 1987 the Karl Marx Order .

Works

  • Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost , Berlin 1952
  • Millionaire and Hellerstück , Berlin 1956
  • Storm from bamboo huts , Berlin 1956
  • Where the hawk shoots , Halle (Saale) 1957
  • How Jasgulla got his right , Leipzig 1960
  • Herbstrauch , Halle (Saale) 1961
  • Hannes Trostberg. The heirs of the manifesto , Halle (Saale) 1968
  • Father Batti sings again , Halle (S.) 1972
  • People paths , Halle (Saale)
    • 1 (1974)
    • 2 (1987)
  • The harmonica player , Halle [u. a.] 1981
  • Early Paths , Leipzig 1987

Filmography

  • 1960/2014: summer paths
  • 1983: The man with the ring in his ear

Radio plays

  • 1957: Where the fog disappears - Director: Lothar Dutombé ( Broadcasting of the GDR )
  • 1960: Paradies im Krähenwinkel - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1961: Under the Wind of the Years (3 parts) - Director: Theodor Popp (Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1963: Rauhreif - Director: Theodor Popp (Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1963: Fifty Carnations - Director: Theodor Popp (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1966: Hannes Trostberg - director: Theodor Popp (radio play (3 parts) - radio of the GDR)

literature

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Seeger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: guthschrift.de 460 , accessed August 5, 2009, 5:00 p.m.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.guthschrift.de
  2. ^ Film database - The man with the ring in his ear. DEFA Foundation , accessed on February 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Seeger, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosslau (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1999
Place of death Potsdam