Horst Salomon

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Horst Salomon as a speaker at the 1st annual conference of the German Writers' Association , November 1966

Horst Salomon (born May 6, 1929 in Pillkallen , East Prussia, † June 20, 1972 in Gera ) was a German writer and screenwriter.

Life

Horst Salomon was born the son of a farm laborer. He attended high school in Allenstein . After the Second World War he came to Thuringia, where he was involved in the anti-fascist youth committee and later in the FDJ . From 1951 he worked as a miner at SDAG Wismut . For 4½ years he worked as a chopper or as a driver on site. At the same time, he completed the mountain school - as an evening school - and was employed as a climber or area climber after graduation . He was a member of the mine rescue team and the rescue team in the worst mine accident in the history of uranium mining in July 1955 at shaft 250 in Niederschlema . At the same time, Salomon was entrusted with the trust of a "political inspector", so he had to ensure compliance with the party line in the company. With the poem Comrade Walter Ulbricht, Salomon justified the suppression of the uprising of June 17th . For the Ministry of State Security Salomon worked as an unofficial employee under the code names "Ursel" and "Petrus" since 1955 . In 1958 he was delegated to the "Johannes R. Becher" literary institute in Leipzig, and in 1961 he returned to Wismut. Since 1965 he lived in Gera as a freelance writer and journalist.

Career as a writer

Salomon initially emerged as a poet (the collection of poems drummed, dreamed and whistled was awarded the Erich Weinert Medal of the FDJ in 1960 ), from 1962 he worked closely with the Gera Theater , which in 1964 produced his piece of Katzengold (which won the national prize of the GDR 3rd class was awarded) and on March 2, 1967 Ein Lorbass premiered. On October 12, 1967 Ein Lorbaß had its premiere at the Deutsches Theater Berlin under Benno Besson . In the period that followed, it became a much-played contemporary piece on the stages of the GDR.

Honors

Named after Horst Salomon:

  • the Horst Salomon Prize, a literary prize that was awarded by the city of Gera until 1988
  • the culture academy "Horst Salomon" in Rudolstadt (until 1989)
  • Horst-Salomon-Straße in Gera (today: Rudelsburgstraße)

Works

  • 1959: Those who dream of tomorrow
  • 1960: The song is a good word
  • 1960: For a minute ( Agitprop ; with Werner Bräunig )
  • 1960: drummed, dreamed and whistled (poems)
  • 1961: propulsion (drama)
  • 1961: Cantata of friendship
  • 1964: Katzengold (play)
  • 1967: Ein Lorbaß (play)
  • 1968: The Rainbow (TV play)
  • 1969: Comrade Father (television and acting)
  • 1971: Black Sheep (TV play)

literature

  • Jutta Wardetzky: Salomon, Horst . In: Walther Killy (ed.): Literatur-Lexikon, Vol. 10, Gütersloh 1991, pp. 122–123.
  • Baldur Haase: Mielke versus Pegasus. Professional and lay authors, those interested in literature from the former GDR district of Gera in the sights of the Ministry for State Security . State Commissioner of the Free State of Thuringia for the records of the State Security Service of the former GDR, Erfurt 2001. ISBN 3-932303-32-6 .

Web links

Commons : Horst Salomon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sepp Wenig : Afterword . In: Horst Salomon: Drumming, dreaming and whistling . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1960. pp. 107–109, here p. 107.
  2. ↑ Sepp Wenig: Afterword . In: Horst Salomon: Drumming, dreaming and whistling . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1960. pp. 107–109, here p. 108.
  3. ↑ Sepp Wenig: Afterword . In: Horst Salomon: Drumming, dreaming and whistling . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1960. pp. 107–109, here p. 107.
  4. ^ Mario Frank : Walter Ulbricht. A German biography . Siedler, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-88680-720-7 . P. 9.
  5. ↑ Baldur Haase: Also available for small fish. Looked into the files of "Petrus" [IM Horst Salomon] . In: Gerbergasse 18 . ISSN  1431-1607 . Vol. 5 (2000), No. 18, pp. 12-15.
  6. ↑ Thüringer Landeszeitung, Gera edition, March 27, 2002.
  7. ↑ Annette Spreitzer: From Symphony Orchestra to lay circles. Culture for the miners . In: Rudolf Boch , Rainer Karlsch (ed.): Uranium mining in the Cold War. The bismuth in the Soviet atomic complex. Vol. 1. Studies . Ch. Links, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-86153-653-6 . Pp. 589-631, here p. 605.
personal data
SURNAME Salomon, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Pillkallen , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1972
Place of death Gera