Erich Blach

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Erich Blach (born April 16, 1907 in Güstrow , † June 2, 1979 in Rostock ) was a German writer .

Life

Blach was initially a member of the socialist workers' youth , since 1926 of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) . He wrote for KJVD agitprop groups and from 1920 to 1933 for the Volkswacht , the organ of the Communist Party of Germany for the districts of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Lübeck. He signed his poems and stories in the sheet with EB. On October 16, 1931, his anthemic poem “Soviet Russia” appeared in the People's Watch. After 1933 he was harassed by the National Socialists in Güstrow, saw his house being searched and his manuscripts destroyed and he was banned from writing.

According to the writer Friedrich Griese , Blach was "put in the city's armaments factory". In one of his memory books, Griese writes that with the help of a “Schwerin friend” he was able to facilitate his fate and that he was able to bring Blach “out there and as a clerk in the town hall”. After the start of the war, Blach was drafted into the Wehrmacht and used "as a medic at the front". Blach became a prisoner of war and attended an anti- fascist school in the Soviet Union. In 1942 and 1943, the Mecklenburg Monthly Issues published by Blach by the National Socialist Training Association published a letter (“Dear Heinz!”), The poem “Sister”, the report “Evenings of a soldier with books” and the poem “The day begins”.

After returning to Mecklenburg, Blach took over cultural and political activities, became a member of the district assembly of the Kulturbund and began studying at the Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig. In later years he worked as an archivist in the Rostock FDGB district board and as a home educator in the Rostock housing association.

Works

  • “Man does not live on bread alone.” Drama. Performance in Rostock in 1952.
  • "Storm surge." Drama. Performance in 1955 in Berlin.
  • "The Amber Brigade." (Youth piece about apprentice construction workers). World premiere in 1972 at the Theater der Freunde Berlin
  • "The house on the wall." Autobiographical novel. Berlin, 1964.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1039 .
  • Klaus Heydeck: The house on the wall wall. On the death of the Rostock writer Erich Blach. In: Norddeutscher Leuchtturm, Schwerin, June 22, 1979, No. 1362, p. 6.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ North German Lighthouse, Schwerin, June 22, 1979, No. 1362, p. 6
  2. ↑ Friedrich Griese “Life in this time. 1890-1968 ", Flensburg: Christian Wolff Verlag 1970, pp. 239-240.
  3. ↑ Mecklenburgische Monatshefte, Vol. 18, 1942, Issue 201, pp. 7–8; Vol. 19, 1943, issue 203, pp. 53-54, and issue 205, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Blach, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 1979
Place of death Rostock