Herbert Jobst

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Herbert Jobst (r.) 1958 when Otto Nagel was awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize, 1st class

Herbert Jobst (born July 30, 1915 in Neu-Welzow , Niederlausitz , † June 28, 1990 in Neustrelitz ) was a German writer .

Life

Herbert Jobst was the son of a miner, who in the First World War had fallen. As a toddler he was abandoned by his mother in Radeberg and spent childhood and youth in homes and with various foster parents . After attending elementary school , he completed an apprenticeship as a printer in Meissen . In the following years he became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth , the Red Falcons and the Friends of Nature. For "National Socialist re-education" he was called up to the labor service. In 1934 Jobst went to Austria , Italy and Yugoslavia, where he led a life as a vagabond. He kept himself afloat with begging, grants from the book printers ' guild and odd jobs . The Austrian authorities pushed him in 1937 to the German Reich from, where he became the army moved in, however, was soon due to military morale in the military prison Torgau . With the beginning of the Second World War he was given the opportunity to do so-called frontline probation . Jobst took part in the war against the Soviet Union as a soldier in the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner by the Soviets in March 1945 in Heiligenbeil , East Prussia . Until December 1947 he worked in Chelyabinsk, Siberia, in the hard coal mining (Camp 8).

In 1947 he returned to Germany. At first he was a night watchman in Dresden . From 1948 to 1956 he worked for SAG Wismut , at the beginning as a chipper and conveyor man . After completing his studies at the Bergakademie Freiberg in 1952/53 , he held the post of Steiger . After his first attempts at writing, he became a member of the Young Authors ' Working Group in 1956 ; from 1957 he worked as a freelance writer in Flöha , Saxony, and from 1967 in Neustrelitz , Mecklenburg. He was married to the poet Lisa Jobst .

Herbert Jobst was the author of novels , short stories and screenplays , including the 1961 DEFA film Der Fremde . His main work is in the DDR widely read, highly autobiographical colored novel tetralogy The dramatic life of Adam Probst . In it, the author tells the life story of a social outsider in a folk, humorous to satirical tone, who, especially in the volume The Vagabond , has Simplician traits.

Herbert Jobst was founded in 1958 by Heinrich Mann Prize and in 1965 with the art prize of the district Karl-Marx-Stadt excellent, also with the FDGB price and with the Fritz Reuter Prize.

Works

  • The boulder . Berlin 1957
  • The pupil . Berlin 1959
  • The vagabond . Berlin 1963
  • Look at the earthly . Rostock 1969 (together with Klaus Beuchler and Egon Richter)
  • The luck seeker . Berlin 1973
  • Change of scenery . Berlin 1983

literature

  • Anita Heiden-Berndt (Ed.): Herbert Jobst . Neubrandenburg 1981
  • Stephan Gruner: In the dispute over history . Berlin 1989

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personal data
SURNAME Jobst, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Neu-Welzow , Lausitz
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1990
Place of death Neustrelitz , GDR