Helmut Hauptmann (writer)

Helmut Hauptmann (born March 12, 1928 in Berlin ) is a German writer who mainly worked in the GDR .

Life

Helmut Hauptmann comes from a working class family. In the final phase of the Second World War 1944-45 he served as an Air Force auxiliary in Berlin and fell in Schleswig-Holstein in captivity . After graduating from high school , he worked for the magistrate of Greater Berlin . He has lived in Berlin as an editor , journalist and writer since the early 1950s .

Helmut Hauptmann is the author of narrative works that reflect the ideological optimism of the early GDR , as well as of reports that deal with the author's travel experiences in various countries of the Eastern Bloc .

Helmut Hauptmann had been a member of the GDR Writers' Association since 1956 and of the GDR PEN Center since 1972 .

He received the following awards:

• 1958 the Erich Weinert Medal
• 1960 the Heinrich Mann Prize
• 1964 the art prize of the FDGB
• 1969 the Heinrich Heine Prize from the Ministry of Culture of the GDR
• 1988 the Order Banner of Labor Stage I.

Works

• The secret of Sosa , Berlin 1950
• Studied like Angelika and Hans Joachim! , Berlin 1951
• Black Sea and white roses , Berlin 1956
• Three people on the Danube , Berlin 1957
• The career of Hans Dietrich Borssdorf alias Jakow , Berlin 1958
• The Invisible Man with the Red Hat , Berlin 1958
• Seven set the clock , Berlin 1959
• Hanna , Berlin 1963
• The complex adventure Schwedt , Halle (Saale) 1964
• The Circle of the Family , Halle 1964
• Blue sky, blue helmets , Halle (Saale) 1965
• Ivi , Halle (Saale) 1969
• Why I went to Horka , Bautzen in 1971
• The indivisible life , Halle (Saale) 1972
• Standpunkt und Spielraum , Halle (Saale) 1977

Editing

• GDR reports , Leipzig 1969

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 30th / April 1st. May 1988, p. 5