Herbert Bruna

Herbert Bruna (born January 15, 1926 in Burkau ; † February 10, 2013 ibid) was a German writer who remained connected to his home region throughout his life.

Life

The son of a stone worker attended the village school in his native Burkau and then learned the profession of typesetter . After he was drafted into the Navy and returned from World War II , he specialized in commercial graphics . In 1950 he began his writing activities with the start of a two-year course at the Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig. In 1951 he became a member of the Young Authors' Working Group in Dresden. Before turning to writing novels, two of which were printed, he wrote short stories for daily newspapers and magazines. He also published a story with a satirical touch in 1954. He named Gottfried Keller , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Adalbert Stifter as his literary role models . He was accepted into the German Writers' Association in 1956. Except for a war story in 1967, there were no other publications. It was not until 1987 that he appeared again as an employee of a collection of local history anecdotes.

Works

• 1954: The poet's book. Publishing house Das Neue Berlin, Berlin.
• 1955: Anne dances. The New Berlin, Berlin.
• 1961: When longing comes. The New Berlin, Berlin.
• 1967: The leopard men. German military publisher, Berlin (= narrator series issue 130).

Participation

• 1987: About muggers and courageous women and other scary things around the town of Bischofswerda. Retrieved from old archives and nooks and crannies by Mathias Hüsni, heartily spun with pictures by Matthias Trauschein and adjusted for black art by Herbert Bruna. Council of the City of Bischofswerda (ed.), Lessingdruckerei Kamenz, Bischofswerda.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Coming soon in the dictionary? Portraits of young authors . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1961, Herbert Bruna, p. 13 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Bruna in the catalog of the German National Library