Martin quarter

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Extraordinary public plenary meeting of the Akademie der Künste, March 26th, 1970 Berlin: Konrad Wolf , Klaus Wittkugel , Hans Rodenberg , Kurt Hager (first row, from left to right), Gerhard Kettner , Martin Viertel, Jeanne Stern , Kurt Stern and Fritz Selbmann , (second row from left to right).

Martin Viertel (born October 2, 1925 in Lugau , † May 2005 in Gera ) was a German writer.

Life

Martin Viertel comes from a family of miners. After an apprenticeship as a stocking maker , he completed a commercial training. In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He became a French prisoner of war , from which he returned to Germany in 1947. From 1948 to 1956 he worked underground (most recently as a steiger ) for Wismut AG in Johanngeorgenstadt . Here he was a member of the editorial team of the Kulturspiegel . From 1956 to 1959 he was a student at the literature institute "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig. He then worked in the cultural and political area of ​​Wismut AG, whose workers' theater he also directed. From 1962 he lived as a freelance writer in Gera .

Martin Viertel, who started writing in the early 1950s, wrote novels, short stories and children's books. He became best known for his novel Sankt Urban , a work of party-loyal workers' literature, in which the occupation of the Saxon uranium ore mining region by the Red Army in 1945 and the first years of Wismut AG are described.

Martin Viertel received the Art Prize of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship in 1960, the FDGB Literature Prize in 1969 and the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1970 .

In December 1989 he returned the GDR Medal of Merit , the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and silver and the Order of the Banner of Labor Level 1 and transferred the associated endowments to a children's home in his home town of Gera.

Works

  • The hedgehog friendship , Berlin 1962
  • She gave us everything , Karl-Marx-Stadt 1966
  • Sankt Urban , Berlin 1968
  • Schlambambomil or The Iron Seal , Berlin 1975
  • Cuckoo thread , Berlin 1977
  • Ticki Mumm , Berlin 1978 (together with Manfred Bofinger)
  • Bollerbock , Berlin 1986
  • Mascha , Berlin 1988 (together with Klaus Müller)
  • A Thousand Days of Siberia , Berlin 1989

Editing

  • Thoughts in my glassworks , Berlin 1976 (together with Hans Schmidt)

Filmography

Translations

Web links

Commons : Martin Viertel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Return of high government awards , In: Neues Deutschland , December 6, 1989, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Quarter, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugau
DATE OF DEATH May 2005
Place of death Gera