Harald Hauser

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Harald Hauser (center) receives Jean Boulier (left)
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Harald Hauser (born December 17, 1912 in Lörrach ; † August 6, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German writer . Hauser has become known as a writer of novels , children's books , plays , television scripts and radio features that are shaped by anti-fascist sentiments.

Life

Harald Hauser was the son of the university professor Wilhelm Hauser . After attending the grammar school he studied from 1930 to 1933 law at the University of Freiburg and at the Berlin Friedrich-Wilhelms University . In 1930 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany and, after a study trip to the Soviet Union , in 1932 the KPD . He was involved in the Berlin “ Red Student Group ”. After the takeover of the Nazis Hauser was University of Freiburg relegated and emigrated with his wife to France . He earned his living doing odd jobs, among other things as a chauffeur and sports teacher, in addition he worked in the intelligence service of the exiled KPD and in the fight against internal party opponents. In 1937 Hauser became a member of the exile organization Free German Youth .

After he was expatriated by the German authorities in early 1939, he volunteered for the French army in December 1939; he was used in a regiment of foreign volunteers. After the French defeat in 1940, Hauser went to the unoccupied southern France, where he carried out political resistance work under the code name “Jean-Louis Maurel” in Avignon and Lyon in the illegality . From 1943 on he published the illegal newspaper Volk und Vaterland and, with Otto Niebergall, led the Free Germany Movement in the West , a parallel organization to the Free Germany National Committee .

After the end of the Second World War , Hauser returned to Germany and was initially active in rebuilding the communist party organization in the Saar region and in the Rhineland . Then he was an editor at the Deutsche Volkszeitung and employee of the New Germany . From 1949 to 1955 he worked for the Society for German-Soviet Friendship as editor-in-chief of the magazine Die neue Gesellschaft ; He was also the founder of the Illustrated Free World .

From 1955 Hauser lived as a freelance writer in Berlin-Niederschönhausen . As IM "Harry" he was registered with the Ministry for State Security of the GDR .

Harald Hauser was a member of the Presidium of the Writers' Association of the GDR and from 1962 of the Presidium of the Franco-German Society . He also worked for the GDR Peace Council.

Works (books, plays, films)

  • 1947: Where Germany was , Berlin
    ( reissued in 1975 as ambassador without Agrément in the Neues Leben publishing house )
  • 1951: Wedding trial , drama
  • 1955: At the end of the night , drama; Edited in 1956 as a radio and television play
  • 1957: Tibet , Leipzig (an illustrated book; together with Eva Siao )
  • 1958: In the Heavenly Garden , play. Music by Guido Masanetz
  • 1959: White Blood , drama; also edited as a film and television play
  • 1960: Häschen Schnurks , Berlin; New edition 2012 by Verlag Beltz; ISBN 978-3-407-77133-9
  • 1961: Nitschewo , Berlin
  • 1961: Stars over Tibet , Leipzig (together with Eva Siao)
  • 1962: At a French chimney , Berlin (together with Henryk Keisch)
  • 1964: Barbara , Berlin
  • 1965: The other front ; two-part anti-war film by the DFF ; Harald Hauser played a film role
  • 1966: The big and the little Buddha , Berlin
  • 1967: The illegal Casanova , Berlin
  • 1968: Code name Kakadu , Berlin
  • 1968: Lebrun company , Berlin
  • 1972: Black Rusks (film role)
  • 1978: There were two royal children , Berlin
  • 1982: The illegal Casanova , stories, military publisher of the GDR Berlin
  • 1989: Faces in the rearview mirror , Berlin
  • process

Awards

  • 1972: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
  • 1977: Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
  • 1982: Gold Star of Friendship of Nations
  • 1987: Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit

literature

Web links

Commons : Harald Hauser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Hauser. Tabular curriculum vitae in the LeMO ( DHM and HdG )
  2. ↑ Left for Algiers in the ND archive, 1964
  3. ↑ a b c Meyer's New Lexicon in eight volumes. VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1964/65; Volume 4, page 51
  4. ↑ A review of the performance at the end of the night in the Landestheater Dessau
  5. ↑ Background information and book review on Stars over Tibet , 2008
  6. ↑ Bunny Schnurk's new edition 2012 ( Memento from October 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ DVD for the TV series The Other Front
  8. ↑ The illegal Casanova as a purchase offer on hood.de; accessed on February 16, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Hauser, Harald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maurel, Jean Louis (code name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1994
Place of death Berlin