Horst Deichfuß

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Horst Deichfuß (born April 11, 1925 in Halberstadt ; † October 6, 1989 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German writer .

Life

Deichfuß was born the son of an official. In 1943 he was called up for military service and was in US and British captivity in 1945/46 .

After his return from captivity, he graduated from high school in 1947 . He then worked as a mail carrier at Deutsche Post . In 1948 he joined the SED . In 1955 he founded a cultural group at Deutsche Post in Halle. In 1961 he completed a distance learning course in postal economics at the "Rosa Luxemburg" engineering school in Leipzig .

From 1963 to 1965 Deichfuß studied at the Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig. In 1965/66 he worked as a consultant for theater and literature at the City Council of Halle. From 1966 to 1969 he acted as district secretary of the Halle Writers' Association. From 1967 to 1972 he headed a circle of writing workers . From 1969 he worked as a freelance author.

In 1971 he was awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle district .

Deichfuß died after a short, serious illness at the age of 64.

Works (selection)

  • Serpentines (novel). Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1962.
  • Anna Mater. Three women's fates (stories). List, Leipzig 1971.
  • The acid test (novel). List, Leipzig 1974.
  • Resumption (novel). List, Leipzig 1977
  • Windmacher (novel). List, Leipzig 1983.
  • Romanian rhapsody. Literary sketches . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1987.

literature

  • Kurt Böttcher (Ed.): Meyers Taschenlexikon. GDR writer . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1974, p. 111.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 115.
  • Wilhelm Kosch et al. (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . Volume 6: Deeg - Dürrenfeld . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-908255-06-6 , column 25f.
  • Rüdiger Bernhardt: Writing workers in the GDR between working class and social culture . In: Dominique Herbet (ed.): Culture ouvrière. Working-class culture. Mutations d'une réalité complexe in Allemagne du XIXe au XXIe siècle . Presses universitaires du Septentrion, Villeneuve-d'Ascq 2011, ISBN 978-2-7574-0210-8 , pp. 117-150 (on Deichfuß, pp. 125f.).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Coming soon in the dictionary? Portraits of young authors . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1961, Horst Deichfuss, p. 18 .
  2. ^ Writer Horst Deichfuß died . In: Neues Deutschland , October 11, 1989, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Deichfuß, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deichfuss, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1989
Place of death Halle (Saale)