Gerhard Dahne

Gerhard Dahne (born May 28, 1934 in Berlin ) is a German writer, publicist and publisher and was the director of the Altberliner Verlag .

Dahne attended the officers' school in Dresden from 1953 to 1956 and became a lieutenant in the artillery. From 1956 to 1959 he studied German, education and geography at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . He then worked for the Ministry of Culture of the GDR until 1979 , from 1974 as head of the fiction, art and music literature department. From 1977 to 1980 he was a member of the Scientific Council for Questions of Socialist Realism .

From 1979 to 1993 Dahne was the publishing director and managing director of Altberliner Verlag. After 1990 he was active in the German booksellers' association and was a member of the board of the Association of Publishers and Bookshops Berlin-Brandenburg. He has been retired since 1994.

Works (selection)

• West German prose. An overview. , Berlin, 1967
• The very strange views and stories of Hans Greifer , Halle, 1975
• Berba - A day in the life of a lion , Berlin, 1982
• Precious items from the German sagas (ed.), Altberliner Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-357-00033-4
• Spuk auf der Kokospalme , Berlin, Altberliner Verl., 1992
• When I grow , Berlin, Altberliner Verl., 1993
• I move , Berlin, Altberliner Verl., 1993

literature

• Short biography for:  Dahne, Gerhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Brigitte Böttcher (Ed.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Gerhard Dahne, p. 20th f .