Herbert Horn (writer)

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Herbert Horn

Herbert Horn (born May 7, 1904 in Berlin-Schöneberg ; † April 23, 1974 in Berlin ) was a German construction worker , draftsman, painter and writer.

Life

Herbert Horn was born in Berlin-Schöneberg. At the time, his father was a servant in the Siemens house, and his mother was a laundromat. Later his father worked as a messenger in the Siemens factory , his mother as a newspaper seller. Horn attended community schools up to grade 8 from 1911 to 1918. In the turmoil of the post-war period he was unable to finish an apprenticeship he had started. He discovered his talent in freehand drawing and used it as a poster painter for film advertising for the company Tempograph in the Berlin Sports Palace and in the Deutschlandhalle . After the end of the Second World War he lost a leg in French captivity . In 1947 he returned to Berlin. Horn married twice and had three children from both marriages.

Political and literary activities

Horn sympathized with the labor movement. He joined the workers' sports club "Libertas" / boxes and designed posters for the KPD . He became an active anti-fascist . In May 1933 he was picked up by SA men and taken to the Salzfurth labor camp, where he had to work with other inmates on the river regulation of the Fuhne . During his imprisonment he was involved in the founding of an “ Antifa group”. Outside the camp, he was given a studio in the cooperative in Lens , where he painted portraits of fallen French Resistance fighters in oil. In 1946 he was shot there. On the French national holiday on July 14, 1947, he returned to Berlin with a prosthesis that the French had donated to him. In Berlin he continued his work as a portrait painter .

His writing and journalistic career began with an anecdote that he wrote for the Berlin radio station in connection with the Berlin blockade . Horn was a member of the Writers' Union . He did not belong to any party.

Fonts (selection)

In addition to novels, short stories, audio and musical plays, he wrote a. a. Article for the “ Weltbühne ”; "Roland von Berlin"; "Fresh wind"; "Feuilleton press service".

Novels
  • "The great time of Otto Blümel" (1959);
  • "Berlin W 33" (1970)
  • Whew - an apartment! , Berlin Verlag Neues Leben, 1956
stories
  • "The Wasps of Lens" (1961)
  • "Outbreak" (1963)
  • "Small, but powerful" (1960)
  • "The second life of a machine" (1961)
Amateur games
  • "The Shamrock" (1951);
  • "Through the Flower" (1951);
  • "Paul im Glück" (1953);
  • "The double lumbago" (1954)
Singing games
  • "The happy city" (1951 with Forrest and Georg W. Pijet )
  • "The shining target" (1951 with Forrest and Pijet)
Radio plays
  • "The Song of Sosa" (1950);
  • "The Clover Leaf" (1950);
  • "The Max Family" (1950),
  • “Our Bridge” (1951);
  • "Comrade Vasile" (1951);
  • "The Great Trek" (1952);
  • “Soldier to the Last Day” (1954);
  • "The Prisoner from Potsdamer Platz" (1956)

Awards

Herbert Horn was honored with the " Theodor Neubauer Medal in Bronze" for his work .

literature

  • Günter Albrecht [u. a.]: Meyers Taschenlexikon - writers of the GDR . VEB Bibliograph. Inst., Leipzig 1974.

Remarks

  1. ↑ This title was rejected in the GDR because it did not focus on the importance of the communists. It is now only available in the library of the Berlin-Charlottenburg town hall.
  2. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German construction worker, draftsman, painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1974
Place of death Berlin