Heinrich Ernst Siegrist

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Heinrich Ernst Siegrist (born November 19, 1903 in Bergheim / Ruhr; died April 28, 1970 in Schönau near Gotha ) was a German miner and writer .

Life

Heinrich Ernst Siegrist was the son of a worker. After attending elementary and middle school, he learned the trade of a businessman. After his apprenticeship, he worked in mines and rolling mills . In 1925 he joined the KPD . After the seizure of power in 1933 he lived in East Friesland and Oldenburg in resistance to the Nazi regime. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a soldier . During the Second World War he deserted to the Red Army . From 1945 to 1953 he worked as a cultural functionary in Mecklenburg . From 1953 he lived as a freelance writer in Berlin and Cottbus . He was deputy chairman of the GDR Writers' Association in the Cottbus district . 1959 and 1964 Siegrist was an active participant in the Bitterfeld conferences . He was a chronicler of the Black Pump Combine . Siegrist put obstacles in the way of the young author Brigitte Reimann : "In addition, in July 1960 he had quoted Heinrich Ernst Siegrist, who had defamed BR several times in the association and among officials, for a discussion on the board of the DSV." From 1961 he lived in Schönau at Gotha. Heinrich Ernst Siegrist died there on April 28 or 29, 1970. The German Writers' Association, Thuringia Working Group, paid tribute to him in an obituary.

Works

  • And so the years passed. A report from a prison camp in the Soviet Union . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1950.
  • Peter Schoenewald . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1953.
  • Work for the world. A picture of the life of Karl Marx . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1954. (2nd edition 1958.)
    • Pochodeň pravdy Životopis Karla Marxe . Z něm. orig. přel. Věra Macháčková. Svobodné Slovo, Prague 1955.
    • Obrazy ze života Karla Marxe . Z něm. orig. přel. Maria Hodačová. Práce, Prague 1955.
  • Ohm Ohlen, the philosopher from Alexanderplatz . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1954.
  • Many, many times ago . In: Karl Grünberg (editor): Hammer and pen. German writers from their lives and work . Verlag Tribüne 1955, pp. 466-472.
  • May 1, 1929 . In: Karl Grünberg (editor): Hammer and pen. German writers from their lives and work . Verlag Tribüne 1955, pp. 475-478.
  • Back to the village of the fathers . Berlin 1956.
  • Stormy years . Volksverlag, Weimar 1960.
  • To develop a company history . In: Yearbook for Economic History . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1961. pp. 169-173.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Or on April 29th. This is how the German biographical encyclopedia write . Volume 9, p. 440 and The Librarian. Monthly for the library sector . People and Knowledge, Berlin 1970, p. 713.
  2. ^ Siegrist describes his youth in the novel Peter Schoenewald .
  3. ↑ Siegrist describes his imprisonment in the story And so the years passed .
  4. ↑ SBZ biography .
  5. ↑ Maria Brosig: "It is an experiment" Formation of tradition in GDR literature based on Brigitte Reimann's novel " Franziska Linkerhand ". Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010, p. 276 f.
  6. ↑ His book Stormy Years reports on the industrial combine Black Pump.
  7. ↑ Erwin Strittmatter is meant .
  8. ↑ Brigitte Reimann is meant.
  9. ↑ What is meant is the German Writers' Association.
  10. ↑ Brigitte Reimann: Everything tastes like goodbye: Diaries 1964–1970 . Construction Verlag, Berlin 1998, p. 386.
  11. ↑ Heinrich Ernst Siegrist died .
  12. ↑ PDF file for drawing up a company history
personal data
SURNAME Siegrist, Heinrich Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergheim
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1970 or April 29, 1970
Place of death Schönau