Walter Basan

Walter Basan (born August 10, 1920 in Beyendorf , today a district of Magdeburg ; † February 14, 1999 in Magdeburg) was a German writer and radio play author.

Life

Walter Basan completed a commercial apprenticeship after 1937 and then worked in the chemical industry. From 1945 to 1999, Walter Basan worked as a freelance writer in Magdeburg and in 1946 was a co-founder of the Kulturbund and its literature working group in Halle . In 1953, after the workers' uprising in the GDR , he left the SED and was observed by the Ministry for State Security after 1962 . In the years 1955–59 and from 1973 Basan was a member of the district board of the Writers' Association in the Magdeburg district.

In addition to historical and contemporary novels, short stories and popular science books for young people, Basan also wrote radio plays. Since the 1970s he has devoted himself increasingly to environmental problems, including in his journalistic books, including in his children's books Brisebraus and the green wonder (1972) and Come back, Hajji-Laklak. A Stork Story from Oberwallmenach (1985).

Walter Basan was awarded the Johannes R. Becher Medal of the Kulturbund and the GDR Medal of Merit. Part of his estate is in the Saxony-Anhalt Literature Office .

Works

• From racetrack dust , saccharine and cod lake , 1949 Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle
• A richly checked story , 1950
• The endless track - from the old Chinese wheel to the racing bike of today , 1952
• ... and the leather is round , 1953 Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle
• The secret of the Magdeburg hemispheres , 1954
• Falcons over the city , 1956 Mitteldeutscher Verl. (Biographical novel about Otto von Guericke )
• The mask of Ayarmaca , 1956 children's book publisher Berlin
• Beloved enemy , 1957 Mitteldeutscher Verlag
• Melons for El Canastera , 1958 Verlag für Sport und Technik
• The decision d. Ismael Abu Kef. , 1958
• The death jumper from Tungaragua , 1959
• Adieu Danielle , 1960 Nationwide Publishing House
• The women of my summer , 1961
• Gods, Corn, and Isotopes , 1961
• The nightingale of Paris , 1964
• The man with the zither , 1967 Eulenspiegel Verlag Berlin
• Sumanja: 2 fantastic underwater stories, published in 1978 in the series Knabes Jugendbücherei , Knabe Verlag Weimar
• The Unraveled Sky , 1973
• Brisebraus and the green miracle , 1972 children's book publisher Berlin
• Come back, Hajji-Laklake, an Oberwallmenach stork story , 1985
• A star falls from the sky , 1989

literature

• Dieter Schade: Basan, Walter. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Basan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walter Basan in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon