Hermann O. Lauterbach

Hermann O. Lauterbach , actually Hermann Otto (born November 11, 1926 in Lauterbach (Hesse) ; † October 20, 2015 ), was a German writer .

Life

Hermann Otto was born in Lauterbach in 1926. His father was a customs officer. Lauterbach spent his childhood and youth in various cities in Thuringia and the Rhineland . He attended high school, became an air force helper at sixteen and later a soldier. In April 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Americans . After the end of the war he made up his Abitur in Fulda , then worked as a volunteer and later as a political editor at the “Fuldaer Volksstimme”. In 1948 he began to study philosophy, psychology and Eastern European history in Mainz , but had to abandon his studies after three semesters for financial reasons. In the following years Lauterbach worked in the central office of the Free German Youth in West Germany. On the basis of an arrest warrant from the Federal Court of Justice , he was arrested in 1954 and released on bail after four months in pre- trial detention. He then worked as a construction worker in Essen and finally as a journalist in Bonn . In 1955 he moved to the GDR . His first novel “The Stone Rolls”, which focuses on the fate of a West German journalist, was published in 1958 (also as issue 141 of the Roman newspaper). The author studied for three years at the Johannes R. Becher Literature Institute in Leipzig . "Zeuge Robert Wedemann", his second novel, was published in 1963. The DEFA filmed his screenplay " The spring takes time ." Hermann O. Lauterbach lived in the GDR as a freelance writer in Potsdam .

source

• Author biography of the "Roman-Zeitung" No. 197 [11/1965 - license no .: 410/165/65] from the "Verlag Volk und Welt Berlin" on the title "Zeuge Robert Wedemann".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in filmportal.de