Rudolf Weiss (writer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rudolf Weiss , different spelling Rudolf Weiss (born April 5, 1920 in Eisenach ; † December 17, 1974 there ), was a German writer .

Life

Weiss was the son of a postman and a cook. He attended elementary school from 1926 to 1934 , then until 1937 the commercial school in Eisenach. After an apprenticeship at the Sparkasse Eisenach , he was employed there until 1940 and was then drafted into the labor service and then into the armed forces. As a soldier in World War II , Weiss was seriously wounded on the Eastern Front in 1942/43. In 1944 he joined the NSDAP .

After his recovery he worked again at the Sparkasse Eisenach from 1944 to 1949, most recently as chief accountant. Then he was employed by the Kulturbund der DDR . In 1951 he took part in a "course for young writers" in Bad Saarow and in 1951 began to work as a freelance author. From 1954 to 1955 he was secretary of the Eisenach local association of the Intelligence Club , before completing a one-year course at the literary institute "Johannes R. Becher" in 1955/56 . In 1959 Weiss took over the leadership of the circle of writing workers at the Eisenach automobile plant , and educational trips took him to China and India in the 1960s . Most recently he worked as an artistic consultant and copywriter for the “Wartburg Ensemble” of the automobile plant.

For his story “The Thief from Alexandra Dock” he was awarded the GDR Medal of Merit.

Weiss was married to Gerda, born in 1944. Möller. The marriage had two children.

plant

Even before studying literature, Weiss presented his first novels. In the work “And over there they sing”, he processed his war experiences on the Eastern Front. The novel “The seeds are green” is devoted to the development of socialist agriculture. The vast majority of Weiss' literary work, however, consists of books for children and young people . After his first youth book manuscript for “The attack on the forest camp” was rejected by the children's book publisher in Berlin , he subsequently offered it to the newly approved Gebrüder Knabe Verlag in Weimar . The book was a success and Weiss became one of the most widely published authors at Knabe-Verlag.

The extensive estate of the author is preserved in the Eisenach city archive.

Works

  • Born to die , 1949
  • And over there they sing , Berlin 1952
  • The attack on the forest camp: An adventurous story , Weimar 1953
  • The secret of the floating island: An adventurous expedition , Weimar 1954
  • Eleven boys - one ball: An exciting football story , Weimar 1955
  • The seeds are green , Berlin 1955
  • The red Jim: The Fall of the Dakota Indians , Weimar 1956
  • The hunt for the magic box: a mysterious story for boys and girls , Weimar 1957
  • The last voyage of the barque Alexander: Adventurous experiences of the cabin boy Sven Wulf , Weimar 1958
  • The tyrant of San Cristobal: Human fate on an island on the equator , Weimar 1959
  • On a long journey: With the motor ship Erfurt 25,000 nautical miles through three seas , Weimar 1960
  • The Road to Floreana: The Further Fates of the Men of San Christobal , Weimar 1960
  • Couriers for Bogota: Adventure on the Rio Magdalena , Weimar 1962
  • SOS - Fire on Board: A Sailor's Story from Our Days , Weimar 1962
  • Columbus's egg: a mysterious undertaking by Anton, Franz and their friends , Weimar 1963
  • The Prisoner of Santa Barbara: The Abduction of Pedro Raimondo , Weimar 1965
  • The Willi A case: A dangerous suspicion , Weimar 1966
  • The thief from Alexandra Dock: A story from today's India , Weimar 1969
  • Death sails under a wild flag , Weimar 1973
  • The search for Ole Westergaard , Berlin 1973
  • Journey in the twilight , with Wolfgang S. Lange, Berlin 1978

swell

  • Heinz Jetter: From the writer's workshop (interview with Rudolf Weiss) . In: Eisenacher Current Newspaper . December 18, 1963, p. 1 .
  • Urania Culture and Education Association Gotha e. V. (Ed.): Eisenach personalities. A biographical lexicon , RhinoVerlag, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-932081-45-5 , pp. 140f.
  • Günter Albrecht [u. a.]: German Writer's Lexicon: From the Beginning to the Present , VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1964, p. 689.
  • Jens Kirsten: Root princesses, detectives and a youth library full of adventure: The history of the Weimar Gebrüder Knabe Verlag , Knabe, Weimar 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , pp. 362-363.
  2. ↑ Heinz Jetter: His benchmarks: We want to preserve the legacy . In memory of the Eisenach writer Rudolf Weiß. In: Das Volk (local page Eisenach) . April 9, 1975.
  3. ↑ Kirsten, Wurzelprinzessinnen, Detective and a youth library full of adventure, pp. 33–35.
  4. ↑ In Albrecht, Deutsches Schriftstellerlexikon, listed as “Drama” and “first performed” (without location); no evidence in the DNB catalog.
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Know, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1974
Place of death Eisenach