Hasso Grabner

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Hasso Grabner (born October 21, 1911 in Leipzig , † April 3, 1976 in Werder ) was a German anti-fascist resistance fighter , an economic functionary in the GDR and a writer .

Life

Born into a working-class family, Grabner completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller after attending secondary school. He joined the KJVD in 1929 and the KPD a year later. After 1933 he did illegal anti-fascist resistance work. He was arrested in 1934 and sentenced to four years in prison in 1935, which he served in Waldheim prison until 1938 . He was then transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp until 1940 . In 1942 he was assigned to the 999 penalty battalion . After he had traveled through large parts of Western Europe with the punishment battalion, Grabner was stationed in Corfu , where he worked as a radio operator in the town of Karousades . Grabner secretly helped Greek partisans and warned the island's Jews against deportation . He was threatened with shooting, but was able to survive and even acquired the Iron Cross when the Wehrmacht withdrew from Greece, which was costly . Later he left his troops in Sarajevo and returned to Leipzig on his own via Austria .

After the war he took part in the development of the youth committees and the FDJ and in 1946 he joined the SED . In April / May 1946 he was director of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and from 1946 to 1948 a councilor in the state government of Saxony. Then he switched to industry and was the main director of VESTA (Vereinigung Volkseigener Stahlwerke) from 1948 to 1951, briefly head of department in the reparations office in 1951 and works manager at VEB Guss Köthen from 1951 to 1952 . After several party punishments for alleged political and ideological unreliability and changing activities, including 1955/56 as head of the construction staff of the Schwarze Pump combine and 1956/57 as head of personnel in the construction and engineering office in Leipzig, he had been a freelance writer since 1958.

From 1955 to 1957 he completed a distance learning course at the "Johannes R. Becher" literature institute . He was one of the authors of the Bitterfeld Way . He has been monitored by the MfS since 1961, and after the 11th plenum of the SED Central Committee in 1965 he was temporarily banned from practicing his profession.

He was married to the writer Sigrid Grabner for the second time .

Works (selection)

  • In memoriam Pastor Schneider , In: That was Buchenwald! A factual report , Leipzig 1945
  • The clock is on the left foot , construction, Berlin 1958
  • The dispute over the partisans , publishing house of the Ministry for National Defense, Berlin 1958
  • Fifteen paces straight ahead , poems. Construction. Berlin 1959
  • On the scaffolding of our world , poems. Construction. Berlin 1960
  • The ship in the dark , German Military Publishing House, Berlin 1964
  • Ironclad "Zeven Provincien" , German Military Publishing House, Berlin 1965
  • The cell , novel. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1968
  • Anka and the big bear , New Life, Berlin 1969
  • Secret thing Norsk Hydro , military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1970, 4th edition 1974, translations into Polish (3rd edition Warsaw 1974) and Czech (Prague 1977)
  • VEB Arche Noah , Roman, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1975, 2nd edition 1976

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Francis Nenik: Journey through a tragicomic century. Hasso Grabner's crazy life . Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-86391-198-0 , pp. 66-90 .
  2. ↑ Karsten Krampitz: What was going on with the Seghers? Review of the biography of F. Nenik, the Friday, No. 31, August 2, 2018, p. 16.
personal data
SURNAME Grabner, Hasso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1976
Place of death Werder (Havel)