Erwin Lademann

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Erwin Lademann (born April 13, 1923 in Wittenberge ; † February 20, 2015 in Crivitz ) was a German writer and journalist in the GDR .

Life

He was born in 1923 as the son of the worker Richard Lademann in Wittenberge ( Westprignitz ). After attending primary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in 1941 and was drafted into the Navy . After the end of the war, he lived in Bremen from 1945 to 1950 and worked as a worker and employee in the construction industry . During this time he made his first literary attempts. At the beginning of 1951 Lademann moved to the GDR and worked as a sales point manager in Wittstock / Dosse . In October 1951 he was invited by the writer Erwin Strittmatter to the Potsdam Working Group of Young Authors , which helped him to publish his first poems and short stories . In the same year he read a chapter from his draft novel about the struggle of the Bremen port workers . This resulted in his debut novel Opens the Gates in 1953 , which initially appeared in sequels as a preprint in the Ostsee-Zeitung in Rostock . Lademann then worked as an art teacher in the Perleberg House of Young Pioneers and in 1953 in the Perleberg consumer cooperative and studied for two years until 1956 at the "Johannes R. Becher" Institute for Literature in Leipzig , where he learned literary historical contexts and Marxist interpretations.

In 1959 Lademann took part as a delegate at the first Bitterfeld conference . This was followed by several years of journalistic work as the district editor of the Schweriner Volkszeitung in Wittenberge, where he promoted the agricultural production cooperatives together with senior officials in front of the local farmers until the spring of 1960 . This activity also gave him the opportunity to gather material for planned novels. The SED nominated its party member Lademann as a member of the district council , in which he then acted as chairman of the culture commission. From 1965 he also worked as district chairman and party secretary in the German Writers' Association in Schwerin . In 1969, as a member of the culture commission, he committed himself to work in the “Cooperation Plate”, a training community of numerous LPGs and businesses in the region.

As a television critic , Lademann was also responsible for a section called “With you Erwin Lademann saw” in the Schweriner Volkszeitung .

He died on February 20, 2015 in Crivitz.

Style and reception

Lademann's books were referred to in the GDR as “ socialist national literature” or “socialist homeland literature”. Lademann cited the reading of Maxim Gorki's Die Mutter as the trigger for his writing activity . In addition to his mentor Erwin Strittmatter, he repeatedly named Lion Feuchtwanger as a role model , whose “spelling” and “beautiful, comprehensive view of historical events” he admires.

Open the gates is about the strike of the Bremen dock workers and showmen in 1951. The weak figure drawings in the novel were criticized. The one protagonist is "[e] in the hero of the retort, a 'scheme'", the other changes "without constant inner struggles [...] overnight". This seems incredible. In addition, Lademann does not meet the authentic language of the Bremen workforce. For all these reasons, the work has more of a reportage character or is a series of scenes.

In Two girls and a young man is about a sales manager who would like to make that clerk to his beloved, who proves to be the larger sales talent. This time the figure drawing is "lively and vivid", although here too there are doubts about the credibility of the bizarre "love competition". The language is "loose and concise, if sometimes not short enough". Since direct speech is used almost exclusively , the reader has no clues for important and less important passages. All in all, it is a "cheerful story" and evidence of literary advancement.

The love of the Haberlands deals with a father-son conflict in 1958, at the time of the expropriations of farmers and the establishment of LPGs. Lademann's style of language was criticized on the one hand: It was said to be pompous. This was countered by the fact that the expression was rich in images and popular. One reviewer said that Lademann relies on the "sensuality of everyday language ". The opinion of Neues Deutschland reviewer Leonore Krenzlin that the motives for the young protagonist's behavior were not clearly worked out, and that everyday life at LPG was only described superficially, was largely not shared. One conclusion was that the combination of the described village life and warm language turned it into a “real home book”.

Works

Novels and short stories

  • 1953: Opens the gates. Novel . New Life Publishing House, Berlin.
  • 1954: Two girls and a young man. A cheerful tale from our day . Illustrated by Gerhard Vontra , publisher. New life, Berlin.
  • 1956: The second kiss for Tanta Anna . Dust jacket, cover and illustrations: Heinz Bormann , Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin.
  • 1958: The call. Novella . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) (= meeting point today ).
  • 1965: The love of the Haberlands . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale).
  • 1970: The man from the south. Novel . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale).

Magazine articles

  • 1953: Sleep, Child (poem). In: Neues Deutschland , August 9, 1953, p. 4.
  • 1955: The construction of the house of culture has started (article) and spring (poem). In: Our home. From the cultural life of the history of the Perleberg district . Published by the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany. District leadership Perleberg and Council of the District, Department of Culture, Issue 1, pp. 12-13, 21.
  • 1955: Children's song (poem). In: Our home. From the cultural life of the history of the Perleberg district . Published by the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany. District leadership Perleberg and Council of the District, Department of Culture, Issue 2, p. 35.
  • 1955: Use the time and learn (poem) and Wittenberge yesterday and today (article). In: Our home. From the cultural life of the history of the Perleberg district . Published by the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany. District management Perleberg and Council of the District, Department of Culture, Issue 3, pp. 79, 118–121.
  • 1955: Herbstlied (poem). In: Our home. From the cultural life of the history of the Perleberg district . Published by the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany. District leadership Perleberg and Council of the District, Department of Culture, Issue 7, p. 217.
  • 1958: Pages from the history of the people (article). In: Our home. Leaves from Prignitz , No. 6, pp. 161–163.
  • 1961: Veritas. The world market is open to her . In: Urania Universe - science, technology, culture, sport, entertainment . Urania-Verlag, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin, Volume 7, pp. 388-422.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Verlag Neues Leben (Ed.): Lademann, Erwin . Berlin July 16, 1956 (publisher information).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Coming soon in the dictionary? Portraits of young authors . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1961, Erwin Lademann, p. 43 .
  3. ^ A b Elfriede Steyer: Erwin Lademann . In: New German farmers newspaper . No. 18/1965 . Berlin April 30, 1965, p. 25 .
  4. ↑ a b c Open the gates . In: Ostsee-Zeitung . No. 180/1953 . Rostock 4th August 1953.
  5. ^ A b c Hermann Schirrmeister: "Open the gates". Published by Neues Leben Berlin . In: Märkische Volksstimme . Potsdam May 15, 1954, literary criticism and bibliography.
  6. ↑ a b Elfriede Steyer: A certain Schulz family. Elfriede Steyer spoke to the writer Erwin Lademann about a family story . In: New German farmers newspaper . No. 18/1965 . Berlin April 30, 1965, p. 24 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h Brigitte Bockisch: About the poetry of our days. Notes between yesterday and tomorrow . In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . January 10, 1969, presented and asked: What does art do ?, p. 4 .
  8. ↑ Bodo Becker: The Lehnitzer build a house for culture. In: kulturhaus-lehnitz.de. Torsten Reipert, 2018, accessed April 20, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b c cw: Basic experience of the present. NdZ conversation with the writer Erwin Lademann . In: Norddeutsche Zeitung . Schwerin April 17th, 1966.
  10. ↑ Erwin Lademann: Belief in the worth of people . In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . September 3, 1965.
  11. ^ Carola Mackowiak: First polytechnic lessons with cooperative farmers. Training in Plate began for 7th grades from three schools. In: New Germany . October 1, 1988, p. 11 .
  12. ↑ Erwin Lademann: "When it comes down to it, they do something very strong" . In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . November 16, 1972, Erwin saw Lademann with you.
  13. ↑ Death in the Schweriner Volkszeitung , February 25, 2015 (online: trauer.svz.de ).
  14. ↑ a b Gert Ullrich: More than a love story. First thoughts on Erwin Lademann's "Die Liebe der Haberlands" . In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . March 27, 1965.
  15. ↑ a b Wolfgang Neuhaus : Schematism based on a typical example. "Open the gates". - A novel about the Bremen dock workers strike . In: Saxon Newspaper Dresden . No. 200/1953 , August 29, 1953, Critique and Bibliography.
  16. ^ A b Wolfgang Neuhaus: "Open the gates". A novel about the Bremen dock workers strike . Organ of the federal executive committee of the FDGB. In: grandstand . No. 208/1953 . Berlin September 9, 1953.
  17. ^ A b Wolfgang Neuhaus: "Open the gates". A novel about the Bremen dock workers strike . In: Junge Welt . No. 294/1953 . Berlin October 28, 1953, criticism and bibliography.
  18. ↑ a b -nn .: More report than novel . In: Thuringian Latest News . No. 191/1953 , August 19, 1953.
  19. ↑ St.: Two girls and a young man . In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . No. 163/1955 , July 15, 1955.
  20. ^ A b Erwin Lademann, Hans Wandt, Leonore Krenzlin, Holdine Stachel , Ingeborg Havemann, Erich Wiesner , [Rudolf] Schaller: About "The love of the Haberlands" . In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . June 6, 1965, literary discussion. New literature in conversation, p. 4th f .
  21. ↑ Siegfried Spantig: I say yes. First opinions on the proposals for the "Fritz Reuter Art Prize" in 1965 . In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . October 3, 1965, Opinions.

literature

  • Our authors . In: Harald Korall (Ed.): Literature 71. Almanach . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) January 1971, Lademann, p. 225-236 , here p. 227 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lademann, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2015
Place of death Crivitz