Hans-Jürgen Steinmann

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Walter Buchheim (right) presents Hans-Jürgen Steinmann with the FDGB Literature Prize 1960 for his novel The Greater Love .

Hans-Jürgen Steinmann (born September 4, 1929 in Sagan , Lower Silesia , † September 22, 2008 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German writer .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Steinmann was the son of a graduate engineer ; his mother was temporarily active as a writer. He attended high school in Breslau . In the final phase of the Second World War he was used as an anti-aircraft helper ; In 1945 he took part in the fighting for Wroclaw, which was declared a fortress . In May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he was released in December 1947 to Halle / Saale in the Soviet occupation zone . From 1948 to 1950 Steinmann was a chemical worker in the Leuna works; In 1949 he joined the SED . He then did a traineeship in the editorial office of the Halle daily newspaper Freiheit . In 1951 he went to Schwerin , where he worked for the Kulturbund until 1958 . From 1958 to 1961 he studied at the "Johannes R. Becher" literature institute in Leipzig . From 1961 he lived as a freelance writer in Halle (Saale) .

Hans-Jürgen Steinmann is the author of narrative prose and reports . In his greatest success, the novel The Greater Love , he processed his experiences as a worker in a plant in the chemical industry ; The novel Dreams and Days also takes place in this milieu, while Two Steps Before Happiness describes the problems of the GDR drawing board city of Halle-Neustadt .

Hans-Jürgen Steinmann had been a member of the GDR Writers' Association since 1957 ; then he was a member of the Association of German Writers and the Association of Writers in Saxony-Anhalt . He received u. a. The following awards: 1960 the FDGB Literature Prize , 1969 and 1971 the Halle-Neustadt Art Prize , the Gold Johannes R. Becher Medal in 1975, the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit in 1978 and the Halle District Handel Prize in 1979 .

Works

  • Bridge to life. Berlin 1953.
  • The stranger. , Halle (Saale) 1959.
  • The greater love. Berlin 1959.
  • Voices of the years. Berlin 1963.
  • Across the border. Berlin 1963
  • From all our comrades… Halle 1967 (together with Roswitha Berndt and Ewald Buchsbaum).
  • Analysis by H. Berlin 1968.
  • Dreams and days. Halle (Saale) 1970.
  • Two steps from happiness. , Halle [u. a.] 1978.
  • Halle, Halle-Neustadt. Leipzig 1979 (together with Gerald Große).
  • Merseburg. Leipzig 1980 (together with Gerald Große).
  • Eisleben. Leipzig 1983 (together with Eberhard Klöppel).
  • Quedlinburg. Leipzig 1988 (together with Karl-Heinz Böhle).
  • Experienced - experienced - unprinted. Hall 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 28, 1978, p. 6

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personal data
SURNAME Steinmann, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Sagan , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 2008
Place of death Halle (Saale)