Johannes Arnold (writer)

Johannes Arnold (born July 17, 1928 in Chemnitz , † December 5, 1987 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was a German writer .

Life

After attending elementary school in Chemnitz, he began an apprenticeship as a clerk in 1943, which he completed in 1946 after it was interrupted by the Second World War. He then took up a job at the City Council of Chemnitz. Also in 1946 he joined the SED . From 1955 he worked as a freelance writer and journalist and at the same time editor of the cultural magazine "Blickpunkt". In 1963 Arnold took over the chairmanship of the writers' association in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district .

Awards

• " Kurt Barthel " art prize of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district (1962, 1969, 1972)
• Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal (1972)
• Socialist labor activist
• Honored activist
• Medal of Merit of the GDR
• Kurt Barthel Medal
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1978)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (1984)

Works (selection)

• Revolt of the dead. Roman, Halle (Saale): Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1969
• Adventure with flip-flop, Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1970
• Hieronymus Lotter , Halle / Leipzig; Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1979
• As long as you live, Halle / Leipzig: Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1983
• Krumhermersdorfer wedding night, Rudolstadt: Greifenverlag 1984
• Field Marshal Holk , Halle / Leipzig: Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1985
• Striegistaler Garden Festival, Rudolstadt: Greifenverlag 1987

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Coming soon in the dictionary? Portraits of young authors . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1961, Johannes Arnold, p. 9 .
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 26, 1978, p. 6
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, September 28, 1984, p. 7

Web links

• Chemnitz Biography ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Johannes Arnold in the Chemnitz Author Lexicon of the Chemnitz City Library
• Literature by and about Johannes Arnold in the catalog of the German National Library