Herbert Kasten
Herbert Albert Wilhelm Kasten (born February 23, 1913 in Stralsund , † September 9, 1976 in Hanover ) was a German writer .
Life
Herbert Kasten was the son of a railway official. He attended elementary and middle school and volunteered for a newspaper. In 1932 he went to Bremen and got the Abitur there . He then studied at the Berlin Administration Academy . After the war and his release from French captivity in 1947, he returned to his hometown Stralsund in 1948.
He became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
Herbert Kasten was responsible for the literary design of the festival program for the opening of the 1959 Baltic Sea Week in Stralsund. This and his novel about Stralsund councilor Karsten Sarnow , published in 1958, were, in connection with a speech by Karl Mewis on June 28, 1959 at the Alter Markt in Stralsund, the occasion for a campaign by the SED against Herbert Kasten. Mewis' speech and subsequently ordered contributions to the discussion were published in the Ostsee-Zeitung , and the Kulturbund der DDR dealt intensively with Herbert Kasten's assessment of Sarnow. On October 30, 1959 Herbert Kasten went to West Berlin ; he returned briefly to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) at the urging of the SED and the Writers' Association, as well as at the request of his daughter ; on November 12, 1959, he was brought to the writers' sanctuary at Schwielowsee . After a three-week stay, he finally left the GDR for good in December 1959.
Works
- The farmer and the minstrel (1951), stage fairy tale
- Der Darß, Urwaldland between the sea and the Bodden (1952), Heimatbuch
- Logger ahoy (1953), travel report
- Alluring Sea (1955), travel report
- Silver of the Sea (1955), novel
- People in the Sea Wind (1956), novel
- Wind force 9 (1956), Singspiel
- Karsten Sarnow , New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1958
literature
- Detlev Brunner: Stralsund. A city in system change from the end of the German Empire to the 1960s . Publications on SBZ / GDR research in the Institute for Contemporary History . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59805-6 .
- Foreword in the Karsten Sarnow edition . Berto Verlag, Bonn 1960.
- Wheeled role model . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1959 ( online ).
Web links
- Herbert Kasten in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Literature by and about Herbert Kasten in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Box, Herbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kasten, Herbert Albert Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1976 |
| Place of death | Hanover |