Klaus Herrmann (writer)
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)
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Editing
- Georg Büchner : Dramas . Stuttgart 1946
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Heinrich Heine : travel pictures . Stuttgart
- 1 (1946)
- Sturm und Drang . Weimar 1954 (together with Joachim Müller)
- Phineas Taylor Barnum : The Life of PT Barnum . Weimar 1962
- Alfred Dreyfus : Five years of my life . Weimar 1962
Translations
- Gérard de Nerval : Sylvia . Weimar 1959
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Herrmann in the catalog of the German National Library
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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 |