Erich Rackwitz

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In Barth Rackwitz came with the Vineta -Sage into contact. He identified Vineta with the Jomsburg and located it not on Wollin, but on the Peene estuary
Nordenskiöld , the conqueror of the Northeast Passage , dedicated mentions to Rackwitz in two of his books ("Stranger Paths - Unknown Seas" and "Sunken Worlds - Far Shores")

Erich Rackwitz (born November 13, 1908 in Berlin , German Reich ; † September 15, 1992 in Rangsdorf , Germany ) was a German author and reporter for young people.

Career

Erich was the son of a former and trained as a safe fitter from 1924 to 1928. He then attended the adult education center and in 1929 the Marxist workers' school and became a member of the KPD . From 1929 to 1932 he attended the German University of Politics as a guest student and from 1936 to 1940 the technical college in Berlin and Barth . During the war he initially worked as a mechanical engineer, but was drafted shortly before the end of the war in 1945 and was taken as a soldier in Soviet captivity, where he attended the anti-fascist school.

Since 1946 he was an employee, from 1950 an editor at Berliner Rundfunk , where he met his 19 years younger wife Irene. Instead of settling in destroyed Berlin in 1951, he settled as a freelance journalist in Rangsdorf, Brandenburg, and since 1952 he has worked as a freelance writer.

Literary work

Rackwitz mainly dealt with technical subjects, scientific pioneers and great explorers. His popular science books were intended to educate and educate young people. His first book "Asphalt, Tempo, Silver Arrows", written together with Hans Oliva-Hagen , was already a success in 1953. His cultural-historical report "Reisen und Abenteuer im Zeppelin" (for which he interviewed the airship designer Hugo Eckener in Friedrichshafen in 1950 ) became a bestseller in 1955.

His work "Fremde Pfade - unbekannte Meere", published in 1959, was awarded first prize by the Ministry of Culture in the GDR competition to promote socialist children's and youth literature in 1960 and has been translated into several languages. As a sequel, Rackwitz wrote "Sunken Worlds - Far Shores" in 1963, in which he a. a. Atlantis and his later favorite area Vineta .

Works

  • Asphalt, Tempo, Silver Arrows (1953), together with Hans Olivia-Hagen
  • Travel and adventure in the Zeppelin. Based on the diary entries of Dr Hugo Eckener . New Life Publishing House, Berlin (1955)
  • The Big Risk (1957)
  • The Soviet Union from A – Z (1957), together with Hans Olivia-Hagen
  • The future is ours (1959)
  • Stranger Paths - Unknown Seas (1959)
  • Sunken Worlds - Distant Shores (1964)
  • Adventure Siberia (1965)
  • The Secret of Vineta (1970)
  • Helping to change our world - 100 years of history in stories (1971), together with other authors
  • The Iron Horses (1973), editor

swell

  • Günter Albrecht, Kurt Böttcher, Herbert Greiner-Mai , Paul Günter Krohn: Lexicon of German-Language Writers , Volume 2, page 190.Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1974
personal data
SURNAME Rackwitz, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and reporter for young people
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 1992
Place of death Rangsdorf