Kurt David

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Kurt David (born July 13, 1924 in Reichenau in Saxony , † February 2, 1994 in Görlitz ) was a German writer .

Life

Kurt David graduated after attending the business school commercial training. From 1942 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier in the Wehrmacht . From 1945 to 1946 he was a Soviet prisoner of war . He had to give up the plan to train as a musician because of a war wound. David was a member of the People's Police of the GDR for four years and was then district secretary at the Kulturbund of the GDR for two years . From 1954 he lived as a freelance writer, first in Oberseifersdorf / Zittau, then in Oybin until his death . In the 1960s he made several trips to Mongolia and Poland. In 1970 he received the Alex Wedding Prize , the National Prize in 1973 , the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1980 and the Lion Feuchtwanger Prize in 1984 . From 1972 to 1983 he was recorded as an unofficial employee by the Ministry of State Security with the code name "Hyronumus" .

Kurt David's early works deal with his own past under National Socialism and World War II. Volumes of travel reports followed. The largest part of David's work is made up of books for children and young people , of which the humorous volume Friday is bathed in the GDR was a great success with the public, also in the version as a television series. Another facet of David's work are historical novels that deal with topics from the history of the Mongols . David also wrote biographies about the composers Beethoven and Schubert .

Works

  • The seduced , Halle (Saale) 1956
  • Counter-attack into nowhere , Berlin 1957
  • Order carried out , Berlin 1958
  • Michael and his black angel , Berlin 1958
  • Letters to God , Berlin 1959
  • The first shot , Berlin 1959
  • The golden throat , Berlin 1960
  • The granite skull , Halle (Saale) 1960
  • Six starlings sat on the wall , Berlin 1961
  • In the land of archers , Berlin 1962
  • The singing arrow , Berlin 1962
  • Polish Studies , Berlin 1963
  • Beenschäfer , Berlin 1964
  • Fridays are bathed , Berlin 1964
  • The house in the park , Berlin 1964
  • The minstrel vom Himmelpfortgrund , Berlin 1964
  • The golden mask , Berlin 1966
  • The Black Wolf , Berlin 1966
  • Tenggeri , Berlin 1968
  • Bear hunt in Chentei , Berlin 1970
  • Encounter with immortality , Berlin 1970
  • The survivor , Berlin 1972
  • Antennenaugust , Berlin 1975
  • The bear with the bird on its head , Berlin 1977 (with Gerhard Gossmann)
  • What the most beautiful of all clouds wished for , Berlin 1977 (together with Karl-Heinz Appelmann)
  • The lion with the particularly beautiful long mane , Berlin 1978 (together with Horst Bartsch)
  • The Khan with the Donkey Ears , Berlin 1981 (together with Waltraut Fischer)
  • Goldwurm and Amurtiger , Berlin 1982 (together with Gerhard Gossmann)
  • Rosamunde, but not von Schubert , Berlin 1982
  • The white pony , Berlin 1989
  • The crypt , "The Magazine". Issue 12/1980

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Kirschey-Feix: David, Kurt .
personal data
SURNAME David, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenau , Upper Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1994
Place of death Goerlitz