Otto Hildebrandt

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Otto Hildebrandt (born November 22, 1924 - † November 7, 2015 ) was a German miner and writer .

Life

Otto Hildebrandt was born in 1924. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed writing adventure stories. After attending elementary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a painter .

In the Second World War he was initially deployed as a flak helper , in 1943 he had to go into the field as a foot soldier . In 1944 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets . In late autumn 1945 he returned to Germany from captivity .

The Association of German Authors (SDA) accepted him as a member in the spring of 1948. From the summer of 1949 he worked in various mining regions in the Ore Mountains, most recently in uranium mining in Johanngeorgenstadt . Around the beginning of 1950 he settled in Graefenhainichen and became a people's policeman , then a district librarian and head of the cultural center . At the end of the 1950s, he returned to coal mining as a shunting ladder assembling work trains in the train operations of the Bitterfeld lignite combine .

Hildebrandt published articles in anthologies and wrote for the trade union newspaper Tribüne . In 1963 he won first prize in the literary competition in the stands . His first book was published after he met the (East) Berlin publisher Alfred Holz in Leipzig and the two of them had discussed Hildebrandt's hunting hobby. The stories based on their own hunting experiences are titled Die Jäger von der Hohen Jöst and appeared in 1971. The same publisher published the animal story volume Encounters with Animals a year later , although the majority was contested by a second author. In 1975 Hildebrandt then published another historical story in Verlag der Nation .

He died shortly before the age of 91. He was buried in Graefenhainichen.

Works

  • The hunters from the Hohe Jöst. Cover and illustrations by Reiner Zieger. Alfred Holz Verlag, Berlin 1971 (2nd – 5th edition: Edition Holz in the children's book publisher; sometimes with the title addition Experiences of a hunter. Animal stories indicated).
  • (With Heinz Hunger :) Encounters with animals. Alfred Holz Verlag, Berlin 1972.
  • The black Margret. Historical narrative. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1975.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Otto Hildebrandt. In: Abschied-haben.de. November 14, 2015, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Brigitte Böttcher (Ed.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Otto Hildebrandt, p. 46 f .
  3. ↑ a b About the authors of this book . In: Encounters with Animals . 1st edition. Alfred Holz Verlag, Berlin 1972, p. 121 f .
personal data
SURNAME Hildebrandt, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miner and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1924
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 2015