Curt Letsche

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Curt Letsche in 1946

Curt Letsche (born October 12, 1912 in Zurich ; † February 17, 2010 in Jena ; actually Kurt Karl Letsche ) had been a writer of science fiction and detective novels since 1958, as well as of novel-like descriptions of the resistance against National Socialism , some of which were on their own Experiences were based.

Life

Curt Letsche grew up in Ulm in 1920 after being a child in Switzerland and completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller. In the last months of his apprenticeship, power was handed over to the Nazis, who staged the book burnings in May 1933 . The " Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten ", into which he had joined in 1932, was incorporated into the Sturmabteilung (SA) in October 1933 , whereby Curt Letsche became the "Sturmbannschreiber" of the SA Standard 120 in Ulm. In autumn 1935 he resigned from the SA and became involved in the anti-fascist resistance.

For a time he belonged to an alliance resistance group from the circle of Karl Otto Paetel in southern Germany, which maintained connections to opposition clergy and to Otto Strasser's "Black Front" . From 1937 Curt Letsche was included in a group of five formed by Alfred Broghammer (1911-1943), with whom he had been close friends since 1932. In Freiburg im Breisgau he ran the Christian bookstore "Wichernhaus" from 1935, to which a small print shop and two small publishers were affiliated. He also had a Protestant “Schriften Verlag” in Basel , where he had a post office box that was also used for correspondence with other resistance groups. He had connections to the Bundische Jugend in Ulm and published not only "denominational inflammatory pamphlets" - according to Nazi terminology - written by opposition clergymen, as well as texts from the "Bundisch" environment, such as the first publications by Ernst Reden from Cologne (1914– 1942), who was stationed as a recruit in Ulm at the time and Hans Scholl to found an illegal after-school care center for the dj.1.11. prompted. Curt Letsche sold publications abroad by the Eisenach- based publisher Erich Röth (1895–1971), who, conversely, printed the Broghammer Group's publications. In autumn 1938, according to the Nazi justice records, Curt Letsche broke away first from the "Black Front", then from Paetel (who, however, visited him in Pforzheim after the Second World War - now living in the USA ). On September 29, 1939, he was arrested in Freiburg as an employee of the university hospital administration by the Gestapo , which had made it impossible for him and his wife to continue the bookstore. He was interrogated for a time in the Gestapo headquarters at Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8 in Berlin . On October 28, 1940, Curt Letsche was sentenced to six years in prison for “preparing for high treason”. The arrest and conviction had to do with his attempt to contact Eberhard Koebel -tusk in London via the “Black Front” .

Curt Letsche was then imprisoned in Ludwigsburg prison and later processed events from that time in the novels Also in That Night Lights Burned , The Scaffold (which is documented in today's Ludwigsburg Prison Museum) and intersections in 1945 . In April 1945 the prisoners were put on a train to be taken to the Mauthausen concentration camp , but were finally liberated by the US Army in Kaisheim near Donauwörth .

Released as a political prisoner on May 11, 1945, Curt Letsche first returned to Kirchheim unter Teck and then worked as a publisher in Tübingen (where he studied medicine and philosophy for one semester each in 1945/46), Stuttgart - Degerloch and Pforzheim . In 1957 he moved to the German Democratic Republic "for economic reasons" which were certainly accompanied by dissatisfaction with the restorative development in the FRG at that time . There he initially worked as a district librarian in the Magdeburg district ( Tangerhütte and Stendal ). From 1959 he worked as a freelance writer. After a few years in Dorndorf / Rhön, Unterkatz- Dörrensolz and Bad Salzungen , he lived in Jena from 1971 until his death.

In addition to numerous readings from his books in the GDR, where he worked in the Writers ' Association, Curt Letsche also supported the work of the VVN-BdA and the commemoration of those persecuted by the Nazis in Baden-Württemberg through readings, speeches and as a speaker at seminars. At his own request, he was buried in a collective grave in the north cemetery in Jena.

Curt Letsche was married twice, from 1934 to 1950 with Lotte (Charlotte) Letsche b. Reck from Ulm (1911–1996) and from 1951 until his death with Lore Letsche born. Reuss (born 1920) from Pforzheim . His two sons Lothar Letsche and Wolfgang Henson were born in Tübingen in 1946 and 1950, respectively .

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Before and after the Second World War - interrupted by his imprisonment - Curt Letsche worked primarily as a publisher in what is now Baden-Württemberg . As an author in the GDR, he mainly published crime novels with a political background from 1960. In several novels he processed his own experiences from the anti-fascist resistance; from 1979 onwards he also reached an audience in what was then the West German Federal Republic. His three science fiction novels published in the GDR and the SF story published from the estate depict in a humorous way anachronistic behavior in a progressive society.

bibliography

1936-1952

The chronological listing only includes titles that are contained in a library catalog or of which a specimen copy can be verified. A “Vita Nova” or “Vita Nuova Verlag”, mostly spelled differently, existed in the first years after the Second World War both in Stuttgart - Degerloch and in Tübingen, since these places in Germany from 1945 to 1949 belonged to different zones of occupation. In Stuttgart the US Publications Control, in Tübingen the French occupation authorities had to approve every book publication, and the imprint also bears a corresponding note.

  • 1936: Claus Weber [= Kurt Letsche]: Heinrich Lersch : poet and worker. Ernst Schmied Verlag Freiburg i. Br.
  • 1937: Evangelical book show. (Compilation: Kurt Letsche.) Christian bookstore Wichernhaus Freiburg im Breisgau (several episodes)
  • 1937: The unknown photo . 6 photo cards. 1st episode: Jupp Hüttenmeister, Ernst Reden, Ul Ulf. D-Verlag Kurt Letsche Freiburg i. Br. O. J.
  • 1937–1938: The Unknown Poem [Ed. Kurt Letsche] 1st episode: Bernhard Sieper, Bruno Mohr, Werner Leut; Original cut by Hans Dost. 2nd episode: Berthold Friedrich Karsten, Reinhold Nord, Ernst Reden. 4th episode: Walter Bauer, KH Bodensiek, Heinrich Ossenberg, Gerd Vielhaber. D-Verlag Freiburg i. Br. O. J.
  • 1938: Ulrich Nielsen: Pilgrims to Rome or Protestants? A word about Alfred Rosenberg's Protestant pilgrims to Rome . A reply to Rosenberg's writing from sincere Christians. [Revised by Kurt Letsche] Evangelische Schriften, Issue 8. Schriften Verlag Basel o. J.
  • 1945: Carl Hilty : From the sense of suffering. Selected words. Foreword: Kurt Letsche. (= Selected words I). Vita nova-Verlag Stuttgart-Degerloch. 2nd edition: Vita nova-Verlag Stuttgart-Degerloch 6/1947.
  • 1946: We are the country. Words of the immortal. Ed. And preface: Curt Letsche. Vita nova-Verlag Stuttgart-Degerloch. Further edition: Vita Nuova-Verlag Tübingen 7/1947
  • 1946: YOU! From the secret of love. Selected words. (= Selected Words II). Vita nova-Verlag Stuttgart-Degerloch
  • 1946: Epictetus : The Handbook of Morals. After the transfer from Carl Hilty . Vita nova-Verlag Stuttgart-Degerloch. Different later edition: Epictet: Das Handbüchlein der Moral. Foreword: Curt Letsche. Vita nuova-Verlag Tübingen 1948.
  • 1947: Little diary of love. Selected by Curt Letsche based on diary entries. (Drawn words: Fritz Stelzer .) Vita Nova-Verlag Stuttgart-Degerloch. Further edition: Vita Nuova-Verlag Tübingen. Extended new edition: Little Diary of Love. The silk books, ed. by Curt Letsche. Imago-Verlag Pforzheim o. J. (1952)
  • 1947: Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski : Secret of Life. Selection. Ed. And epilogue: Curt Letsche. Vita Nuova-Verlag Tübingen 6/1947.
  • 1948: William Shakespeare : Be true to yourself. Selected words. Edited and edited by Curt Letsche. Vita Nuova-Verlag Stuttgart.
  • 1949: Covald, CL [= Curt Letsche u. a.]: Breviary on marriage. [probably Tübingen 1949]
  • 1949: The Albrecht Dürer booklet. Selection and text by Curt Letsche. With 30 picture plates. Vita Nuova-Verlag Stuttgart u. a. New edition: with 29 plates, 6 signed sheets IMAGO-Meister-Band. Vita Nuova-Verlag Stuttgart, Tübingen 1950. 3rd changed edition. Publication of the book and art studio Curt Letsche. Pforzheim. no year (approx. 1952)
  • 1952: The Europa Booklet. Ed. CC Letsche. Imago-Verlag Pforzheim o. J.
  • 1952: Rene Marill Alberes: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry . Ed. CC Letsche. Imago-Verlag Pforzheim
  • 1952: Eternity swings over them. Ed. CC Letsche. Imago-Verlag Pforzheim o. J.

In addition to the authors mentioned above, the aforementioned publishers also published titles by: Theodor Haug, Sören Kierkegaard , Jack London , Guy de Maupassant , Prosper Mérimée , Alfred de Musset , John Henry Newman , Novalis (= Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg), Blaise Pascal , Romain Rolland , Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Albert Schweitzer , Wladimir Sergejewitsch Solowjow (Solowjew), Leo Tolstoi , Miguel de Unamuno , Otto Witt, as well as a calligraphic edition of the 90th Psalm. Writings or Selected Words by Henri-Frédéric Amiel , Laotse , Maurice Maeterlinck and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were announced .

Titles communicated or announced elsewhere as publications by Curt Letsche, but not yet found:

Freiburg and Basel 1936–1938:

  • The unknown song
  • further episodes of the unknown poem and unknown photo
  • Ernst Talking: About young life
  • Encounter. Essays. Freiburg i. Br. 1937
  • further issues from the Schriften Verlag Basel, including a critical examination of Mathilde Ludendorff's religious views

Announced by Vita Nova-Verlag Stuttgart-Degerloch 1946:

  • The little book of wisdom. From the spirit of the world
  • Life is nourished by suffering ... by people who experience it. Words of comfort to the soul.
  • Small marriage breviary
  • Path and goal. About life. Selected words
  • Words of instruction
  • Magic of the hour. Words of joy

Announced as "companion books" by Imago-Verlag Pforzheim for 1952/53:

  • The little night book. Thoughts on the night with numerous image reproductions based on drawings and paintings by Rembrandt .
  • The little book from you - and me. A breviary of marriage with numerous image reproductions.

From 1958

The year of the 1st edition is indicated in the front.

  • 1958: The Rudolf Pflüger case. In: NDL - new German literature , Aufbau-Verlag Berlin / DDR, issue 12/1958, pp. 59–65.
  • 1960: the gray raincoat. Little novel series. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle / Saale (2nd edition 1961, 3rd edition 1963, 4th edition 1964)
  • 1960: Lights were on that night too. (Illustrations: Werner Ruhner .) Verlag Neues Leben Berlin / GDR
  • 1961: And an illusion for the evening. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle / Saale
  • 1965: The glass trap. Crime story. Blue light 59. The New Berlin .
  • 1966: alarm at night. Crime story. Blue light 73. The New Berlin.
  • 1966: black tips. Detective novel. (Illustrations by Werner Nauer.) Greifenverlag Rudolstadt.
  • 1967: The secret interrogation. Detective novel. (With 17 illustrations by Walter Nauer.) Greifenverlag Rudolstadt (2nd edition 1972)
  • 1968: defamation of a star . Utopian novel. (With 21 illustrations by Rolf F. Müller.) Greifenverlag Rudolstadt. (2nd edition 1968, 3rd edition 1973). 4th edition 1987: ISBN 3-7352-0076-1 .
  • 1970: The Ice Man. Utopian novel. (With 20 illustrations by Helmut Fiege.) Greifenverlag Rudolstadt
  • 1974: Anaconda space station. Utopian novel. (With 20 illustrations by Helmut Fiege.) Greifenverlag Rudolstadt (2nd edition 1976, 3rd edition 1982)
  • 1977: the other face. Detective novel. Greifenverlag Rudolstadt. (2nd edition 1978).
    • Paperback: Greifen Kriminal series, Greifenverlag Rudolstadt 1981. (2nd edition 1986). 3rd edition 1989, 4th edition 1990: ISBN 3-7352-0028-1 .
    • Slovak edition: Curt Letsche: Druhá Tvár. Translation: Mária Horváthová. Edicia Labyrint, Volume 87.Smena-Verlag (publication number 2664), Bratislava 1981.
  • 1979: The scaffold. Greifenverlag Rudolstadt (2nd edition 1980). BRD license edition: Röderberg-Verlag Frankfurt / Main 1979. ISBN 3-87682-705-1
    • New edition with a documentary appendix, ed. by Lothar Letsche. Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag Nf. Bonn 2011. ISBN 978-3-89144-436-8 [Appendix with contributions by Carsten Kohlmann, Fritz Endemann, Erich Viehöfer, Curt Letsche, Ada Ipenburg, Lothar Letsche, and others. a. on the biographies of Andreas Wössner (1898–1942), Hermann Cuhorst (1899–1991), Wim Ipenburg (1921–1992) and that of the author]
    • Ukrainian edition (in Cyrillic script): Kurt Letše. Ešafot. Novel. Translation: Halyna Lozyns'ka. (Illustrations: Volodymyr Pinihin.) Vydavnyctvo Kamenjar [= Steinmetz-Verlag], L'viv 1983.
    • Abridged reprint in Ukrainian literary magazine: Vsesvit . ISSN  0320-8370 (Editor-in-Chief: Vitalij Korotyč.) Kyïv, 8-1983 [August 1983], pp. 4–95
  • 1983: The ghost train. Novel. Das Taschenbuch 208. Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic Berlin / GDR
  • 1984: incident in Zurich . Novel. Greifenverlag Rudolstadt
  • 1986: Operation Managua . Thriller. Weltkreis thriller. Weltkreis-Verlag Dortmund. ISBN 3-88142-368-0 .
  • 1994: Chromosome X. A story by no means fantastic. Spotless publishing house Berlin. ISBN 3-928999-42-7
  • 2012 (approx. 1998–2001): Pictures from another world. Science fiction story. Edition TES from Ulenspiegel-Verlag Waltershausen and Erfurt. ISBN 978-3-932655-35-7
  • 2013 (completed 1987): Intersections 1945. Novel. Edited from the author's estate with a documentary appendix. by Lothar Letsche. Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag Nf. Bonn. ISBN 978-3-89144-456-6

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Thüringische Landeszeitung , issue of February 20, 2010.
  2. from 1946 he himself mainly used the spelling Curt Letsche . His birth name was Schaller, the name of his mother Katharina, who married father Theodor Letsche on November 29, 1914. “On January 29, 1915, the Zurich cantonal authorities also gave the child the surname Letsche” (see the biographical contributions by Lothar Letsche).
  3. Lothar Letsche: About the author Curt Letsche . In: Curt Letsche: The scaffold. New edition 2011, p. 273 f.
  4. A stumbling stone reminds of Broghammer , in the list of stumbling stones in Stuttgart his name can be found at the house Möhringer Str. 71 in Stuttgart-Süd , see stolpersteine-stuttgart.de and Elke Martin and Werner Schmidt: Alfred Broghammer - Ein tragisches Schicksal the alliance youth opposition. In: Rainer Redies (Hrsg.): A civic project draws circles. Ten years of stumbling blocks for Stuttgart. Markstein-Verlag im Verlag und Buchhandlung der Evangelische Gesellschaft Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-920207-82-7 , pp. 103ff .; Lothar Letsche: About the author Curt Letsche . In: Curt Letsche: Das Schafott , new edition 2011, pp. 273f.
  5. ibid. P. 275.
  6. Diether Röth : Brief CV Erich Röth. Institute for Contemporary History Munich, holdings ED 903 Röth, Erich; [1] (PDF)
  7. Memory of Curt Letsche's widow
  8. Information from: Eckard Holler (Berlin) in: Circulars of the Mindener Kreis , No. 12 / May 1, 2010, p. 17. In addition: Trial files in the Federal Archives, inventory Z / C 11347 (Kurt Letsche), Z / C 6843 volume 8 (Alfred Broghammer).
  9. ^ Streiflichter from Resistance and Persecution, Volume 4, 1990, published by the VVN-BdA , Kreisvereinigung Ludwigsburg , pp. 20 to 22; printed in: Curt Letsche: Das Schafott , new edition 2011, pp. 266–268
  10. Ludwig Laibacher: Put in prison by the Gestapo . Leonberger Kreiszeitung . March 2, 2010. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 6, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de
  11. So the website of Bookmarks e. V. Thuringian Office for the Promotion of Literature and Art, Jena, in the biography of the author that was agreed with him during his lifetime; The GDR author Curt Letsche: Antifascist couldn't find a job in the civil service . In: Badische Zeitung / Lahrer Anzeiger 11./12. May 1985.
  12. Lothar Letsche: About the author Curt Letsche . In: Curt Letsche: Das Schafott , new edition 2011, p. 280
  13. ^ Literature on the city and the district of Gera . Regional studies selection directory, part 6: Horst Salomon and writers of the Gera district - members of the GDR writers' association, Gera district association. Ed. Von der Wissenschaftliche Allgemeinebibliothek Gera, 1979, p. 36. Some other information about the author in such overviews (e.g. “1945 employed in Stuttgart as an employee”) does not necessarily apply.
  14. Curt Letsche: Experiences of our history in our stories. In: Volkswacht, Gera, supplement, May 3, 1978, p. 3.
  15. Lothar Letsche: On the death of Curt Letsche. In: Antifa news. VVN Association of Antifascists Baden-Württemberg e. V. No. 1/2010. Stuttgart, April 2010, p. 17. Photo of the last reading on January 27, 1998 in Schramberg in: Curt Letsche: Das Schafott , new edition 2011, p. 6; the author was invited as a contemporary witness by the mayor of Schramberg, Herbert O. Zinell (see Edgar Reutter: Roman commemorates victims of the Nazi era , Schwarzwälder Bote , January 14, 2011).
  16. Curt Letsche: Das Schafott , new edition 2011, pp. 274, 280, 282f.
  17. ↑ Publishing name after the well-known youth work Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Curt Letsche's publishing company had nothing to do with the publishers of the same name that were temporarily in existence in Switzerland , in particular that of the German anti-fascist Rudolf Rößler (1897-1958), who lived in Lucerne and passed on secret information about German military strategy to the Soviet Union and Switzerland during World War II to do.
  18. Kürschner's German Literature Lexicon 1943, supplement, p. 1278: Kurt Letsche, pseudonym: Claus Weber. There the address of the author's wife at the time is given: Kirchheim unter Teck , Marktstr. 27. Curt Letsche was imprisoned in Ludwigsburg at that time .
  19. "Ernst Reden published the poems 'Vom Junge Leben' and 'Unbekannte Gedichte' in the D-Verlag of Kurd Letsche in Freiburg." "Ernst Reden also frequented the Scholl house and became friends with Inge Scholl . He impressed the Scholl siblings with his erudition and first publications that he had brought out in a Freiburg publishing house. ”Quotes from: Eckard Holler: Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl between Hitler Youth and dj 1.11. In: Puls - Documentation of the youth movement . ISSN  0342-3328 Verlag der Jugendbewegung Südmarkverlag Michael Fritz KG Stuttgart, No. 22, November 1999, p. 50 (footnote 19) and p. 32.
  20. The 3rd episode of the “Unknown Poem” has not yet been found.
  21. It is a response to the inflammatory pamphlet “ Protestant Rompilger ” by the NSDAP ideologist Alfred Rosenberg against Protestant critics, some of whom called themselves the Confessing Church , to his “ Myth of the 20th Century ”. According to the indictment Kurt Letsche was in the fall of 1938, authored by a priest, revised by him writing against Rosenberg out to them especially in Switzerland to spread, the title is given here as: "Are we still Christians" . According to the case file, this font was the only product of his publisher that was banned.
  22. ↑ The fact that Curt Letsche is the author is evident from the epilogue of the expanded new edition of the “Little Diary of Love” from 1952.
  23. Presumably identical to the title An die unbekannte Geliebte, announced by Imago-Verlag as one of the “companion books” for 1952/53 . Diary records of a love. With numerous partly color picture.
  24. The voucher copy without a title page, i.e. also without the location and the year, printed on the typical wood-containing post-war paper and containing no pictures, may be the realization of the small marriage breviary announced by the Stuttgart Vita Nova Verlag in 1946 . From 1949 the publishing house actually only existed in Tübingen. It is not very likely that the book ever went on sale in this way; it is not detectable in libraries.
  25. "With the exception of the reproductions of the death masks by Blaise Pascal , Alexander Puschkin and Victor Hugo , the pictures are taken from the volume of ' Rosemarie Clausen , Die Vollendeten', which was previously published by Tazzelwurm Verlag ." This is in the UB in the online catalog of the Bavarian Library Association Bamberg's existing book Ewigkeit swings circles above them erroneously with the year 1960 indicated.
  26. Typescript in the estate: Lao Tse - Tao Te King. In a new arrangement and transmission by Curt Letsche .
  27. Since Curt Letsche's publishing activities at that time moved in a gray area between legality and illegality, mostly no specimen copies from the already small editions were handed over to libraries, which is what today - after the confiscations made by the Gestapo in 1938/39 - the search for them Difficult titles. What was not preserved in Lotte Letsche's estate had to be considered lost for a long time and in some cases still has to be considered today.
  28. announced by D-Verlag Freiburg i. Br. 1937
  29. possibly as a takeover of Erich Röth Verlag Eisenach
  30. according to the website of Bookmarks e. V. Thuringian Office for the Promotion of Literature and Art, Jena http://www.lesezeichen-ev.de/index.php?id=39&members%5Barticle%5D=43&cHash=12132889c4
  31. In a publisher's brochure from November 1946 it says: "The editions of the individual works are small ... Some previously announced editions ... had to be postponed due to a lack of paper ..."
  32. Possibly printed in 1948/49, but not supplied as CLCovald, Brevier zur Ehe , but it may be a different publication. which was only delivered directly and not through bookstores.
  33. ^ The publishing house - and Curt Letsche's publishing activity in general - was about to end economically in 1952.
  34. A collection of carbon copies of poems typed with typewriters, which were probably intended for Das kleine Nachtbüchlein, is in the estate of Curt Letsche.
  35. The novel has autobiographical features. The model for the fictional character "Ernst Rieger" is Ernst Reden, who published poems in Kurt Letsche's "D-Verlag" in 1937/38. Another fictional character bears the unencrypted name " Hans Scholl ".
  36. ^ Complete (then) title of the journal: Vsesvit . Ščomisjačnyj literaturno-mystec'kyj ta hromads'ko-polityčnyj žurnal, Orhan Spilky pys'mennykiv Ukraïny, Ukraïns'koho tovarystva družby i kul'turnoho zv ”jazku z zarubižnymy kraystuitans'kohakraïnamy ta Ukraïnamy ta. [Space. Literary-artistic and civic-political monthly, organ of the Writers' Union of Ukraine , the Ukrainian Society for Friendship and Cultural Connections with Foreign Countries and the Ukrainian Republic Committee for Defense of Peace]
  37. According to the author, it is an excerpt from an earlier version of the novel, which was published in full in 2013 as intersections in 1945, according to the author .
  38. ↑ Found in the author's estate as a printout and in file form with the working title The Other World .
  39. Under the title The Tears of Freedom , the author had presented an earlier version of this novel on May 9, 1985 in Lahr / Black Forest as his "unpublished latest work", see: The GDR author Curt Letsche: Antifascist did not find a job in the civil service. In: Badische Zeitung / Lahrer Anzeiger 11./12. May 1985; printed in: Schnittpunkte 1945, pp. 11/12. He wrote on March 10, 1983 that the paperback book Der Geisterzug published in 1983 "had been shortened from originally 300 manuscript pages to 170" and spoke of "very idiosyncratic cuts in the editor" ( Schnittpunkte 1945 , p. 7).
  40. ^ Writer from the districts of Erfurt and Gera. Members of the GDR Writers' Association. Published by the Erfurt District Council and the Gera District Council in conjunction with the Writers' Association of the GDR District Erfurt-Gera, 1974, p. 45
  41. a b c writer of the Gera district. Edited by the Council of the District of Gera, Department of Culture, and by the Writers' Association of the GDR / District of Gera, 1985, p. 45.