Konrad Schmidt

This article is about the writer Konrad Schmidt. For economists, philosophers and journalists see Conrad Schmidt ; on the administrative lawyer see Konrad Schmidt-Torner .

Konrad Schmidt (born May 27, 1926 in Döbeln ; † 1995 ) was a German writer and Germanist in the GDR.

biography

Konrad Schmidt is best known through travel literature. He also wrote scripts for television plays.

Since 1951 he was with the writer and literary scholar Marianne Schmidt , b. Long (* 1929) married. The marriage has two sons.

From his list of publications it can be seen that Schmidt mainly wrote about trips to parts of the world that normal GDR citizens could not reach: Austria, the Middle East, Cyprus. His works, especially his two books on Rügen, have been well researched in terms of historical, literary, economic or even technological references and are still very readable today.

Prizes and awards

• 1985 Theodor Fontane Prize of the Potsdam district

Works

Works as an author

Essays

• Lie or guilt? In: neue deutsche literature , vol. 4 (1956), no . 11, pp. 141-143, ISSN  0028-3150
• Encounters on the Bosporus and the Mediterranean . In: Salaam, Fatima! Women from three continents . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1975.

Books

• together with Harald Kohtz: Robert Blum . Life picture of a great German patriot (home evening series of the Free German Youth , issue 1). Young World Publishing House, Berlin 1952.
• together with Marianne Lange and Harald Kohtz: Laughs with Gogol . A home evening for the groups of the FDJ (home evening series of the Free German Youth, issue 2). Young World Publishing House, Berlin 1952.
• Red flags in the top. The “Marine Uprising 1917” and the “ Kiel Sailors Uprising 1918”. A home evening for the groups of the FDJ (home evening series of the Free German Youth, issue 17). Young World Publishing House, Berlin 1952.
• The German working-class youth with Karl Liebknecht in the fight against militarism and imperialist war. A home evening for the groups of the FDJ . (Home evening series of the Free German Youth, issue 26). Young World Publishing House, Berlin 1954.
• Looking for Aphrodite . A trip to Cyprus. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1966 (EA Berlin 1962).
• Makarios . Church prince and popular leader (Christian in the world; 6). Union Verlag, Berlin 1965.
• Across the Orient . Brockhaus Leipzig 1967 (illustrated Alfred Paszkowiak )

1. Passes, pipelines, pyramids.
2. Deserts, wadis, water wheels .

• Easter in the Holy Land . Union-Verlag, Berlin 1969 (illustrated by Alfred Paszkowiak)
• New discoveries on Rügen and Hiddensee. 2nd edition Brockhaus, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-325-00213-7 .
• Via Vienna to Austria. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1981 (EA Leipzig 1977)
• together with Gerald Große: Vienna . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-325-00178-5 (EA Leipzig 1983)

Works as editor

• together with Marianne Schmidt and Gerhard Ziegengeist: Puschkin . A reader for our time . Thüringer Volksverlag, Weimar 1954 (translated by Johannes von Guenther ).
• Features of the red press. 1918-1933; Red Flag , Young Guard, Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung , Eulenspiegel, Red Pepper . Publishing house of the Ministry for National Defense, Berlin 1960.

literature

• Günther Albrecht, Kurt Böttcher, Herbert Greiner-Mai and Paul-Günter Krohn: writers of the GDR . 2nd unchanged edition. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1975

Footnotes

1. ↑ The first edition was published in 1973 under the title Discoveries on Rügen and Hiddensee .