Helmuth Miethke

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Helmuth Miethke (born August 29, 1897 in Ruthenberg , Schlochau district , † after 1973) was a German writer.

Life

Helmuth Miethke was born the son of a farmer. After school, he embarked on a teaching career. In 1935 he became vice principal of a primary school in Delitzsch , in 1937 principal of a school in Freyburg , and from 1939 he was principal in Kemberg . In 1925 he began his first attempts as a writer, writing short stories and reviews for books and theater performances. From 1928 to 1933 he was a member of the Association of German Writers . In the November 1958 issue no. 18, the Neue Deutsche Presse magazine reported that Miethke was a member of the German-Völkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . In the Nazi regime he worked as a district training leader of the NSDAP and district commissioner of the racial policy office of the NSDAP .

In the Second World War was Miethke soldier. In the post-war period he became seriously ill with a lung disease and spent several years in lung sanatoriums. In the 1950s he was co-author of several history books for schools in the GDR and wrote, as he called them, "historical-biographical stories". In doing so, he managed to keep his books largely free from the ideology prevailing in the GDR. He delivered the required minimum commitment to Marxism-Leninism primarily by introducing chapters with a quote from Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Franz Mehring or another classic of Marxism and in the bibliography with writings by Marx, Engels, Lenin or (until 1956) put Stalin first, even if they had nothing to do with his subject. Even as a pensioner, he wrote and wrote historical stories with biographical content. Most recently he lived in Kemberg .

Fonts

  • The conspirators. A historical-biographical story about Arminius . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1955
  • Moving years. A historical-biographical story about Georg Forster . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1956
  • Marshal Forward. A historical-biographical story about Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1956
  • The “bacillus father” cook . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1958 (together with Hugo Hertwig)
  • It started in Boston . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1959 (about the Boston Tea Party )
  • Georg Forster. World traveler, writer and revolutionary . Language and Literature Publishing House, Halle 1961
  • Don't go to Alesia . Prisma-Verlag, Leipzig 1964 (via Vercingetorix )
  • The towers of Babylon see far. A cultural-historical novel about the great legislator Hammurapi . Prisma-Verlag, Leipzig 1971
  • The palace medicus . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1976 (on the Stedinger Peasant Republic and the Stedinger War )

literature

  • Detlef Langermann: On the appearance of historical fiction in the literature of the GDR. Investigations into narrative prose with historical material choices from 1945 to 1969 . Dissertation, Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald 1986 (2 volumes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBF / DIPF / Archive, BIL expert body - Prussian elementary school teacher index .
  2. ^ A b Günter Albrecht et al., Writers of the GDR , Leipzig 1975.
  3. ↑ Quoted in: Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann, With pamphlets and indictments against the SED system , Schwerin 1998.
  4. ↑ See in the three “historical-biographical stories” published in 1955 and 1956, the quotations that precede each chapter and the list of literature on the last page.
personal data
SURNAME Miethke, Helmuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miethke, Helmuth Viktor Eberhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruthenberg , Schlochau district
DATE OF DEATH after 1973