Klaus Herrmann (writer)

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Klaus Herrmann (born August 4, 1903 in Guben , † April 22, 1972 in Weimar ) was a German writer .

Life

Klaus Herrmann came from a family of manufacturers . After he had passed the school leaving examination in 1922 , he then studied philosophy and economics in Berlin and Jena until 1924 . In 1926/27 he worked as an assistant in a publishing house , and from 1927 he studied German and history at the Kaiser Wilhelm University in Berlin . After Herrmann made contributions to the feature pages of various newspapers (including the Berliner Tageblatt), he was editor of the literary magazine Die neue Bücherschau until 1931 . From 1931 he worked as a freelance writer . During the Third Reich he was only able to publish reports and translations anonymously and to a very limited extent. Herrmann lived mostly in Upper Bavaria from 1933 to 1949 . In 1944 he married Luise Rinser , with whom he lived until 1949.

After the end of the Second World War , Klaus Herrmann worked for the Münchner Neue Zeitung . In 1949 he moved to the GDR , where he settled in Weimar . He joined the SED and was Secretary General of the German Schiller Foundation from 1957 to 1971 . Herrmann belonged to the PEN center of the GDR .

Klaus Herrmann wrote historical novels , short stories and plays . His narrative works, which were widely read in the GDR , often have exotic locations and a tendency towards social criticism. His most important work is the family novel The Good Years , in which Herrmann describes the fate of a German upper-class family from the German Empire to the beginning of the Third Reich .

His estate is in the Berlin State Library .

Works (selection)

  • Benjamin Potter's Crimes . Berlin 1931
  • The stingy mother . Berlin 1934
  • In heaven and on earth . Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1940
  • The widow of the gods . Munich 1946
  • Salto mortale . Berlin 1946
  • Babylonian summer . Hamburg 1948
  • The guillotine dream . Weimar 1950
  • The double rainbow . Erfurt 1951
  • I dared . Berlin 1952 (together with Günter Pössiger)
  • Jörg, the cottage boy . Weimar 1952
  • The Egyptian wedding . Weimar 1953
  • The fat and the thin Michel . Weimar 1953
  • The good years don't count . Weimar 1953
  • The people stand up, the storm breaks loose . Berlin 1953 (together with Günter Pössiger)
  • The farewell . Weimar 1954
  • The fire of Byzantium . Weimar 1955
  • The heir . Weimar 1956
  • The Sorceress of Ravenna . Weimar 1957
  • Kurt Kora despises Berlin . Berlin 1958
  • The summer never ended . Weimar 1958
  • Shade in March . Weimar 1959
  • The little mogul . Berlin 1961
  • The Prophet's widow . Weimar 1961
  • The dark blue hats . Rudolstadt 1963
  • The good years . Weimar 1963
  • Orpheus in tails . Berlin 1963
  • Cruise into the unknown . Berlin 1964
  • The Siamese twins . Berlin 1965
  • Kidnapping in Venice . Berlin 1966
  • Decision in Paris . Berlin 1967
  • Stephan Thoss's fault . Berlin 1967
  • Arrival of the winner . Berlin 1969
  • Hour of mars . Berlin 1970
  • The night falls on Babylon . Berlin 1971
  • The golden mask . Berlin 1976

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SURNAME Herrmann, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Guben
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1972
Place of death Weimar