Werner Quednau

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Werner Quednau ( pseudonyms : Vera Reichert , Vera Weyden , Werner Weyden , born February 17, 1913 in Rastenburg , East Prussia ; † November 29, 2004 in Braunschweig ) was a German writer .

Life

Werner Quednau trained as a director and dramaturge in Babelsberg during the Third Reich and worked in the film industry. He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1935 .

After the Second World War , Werner Quednau joined the SED . He lived in Görlitz and published a number of books for children and young people in GDR publishers in the 1950s , several of which were awarded prizes from the GDR Ministry of Culture . A biographical non-fiction book about Robert Koch , which had a circulation of 30,000, and a biography of Clara Schumann , which had a circulation of 60,000, were particularly successful . Robert Koch's biography, originally conceived as a book for young people, was submitted to the 1952 competition for the creation of a new children's and young adult literature by the Office for Literature and Publishing , but was excluded from the competition because Quednau had taken over entire passages from Paul de Kruif's microbe hunters . In 1954 a plagiarized version was published by Altberliner Verlag .

In addition, some Quednau's children's books were published by West German publishers under a pseudonym. In 1958 there was a scandal when Quednau's National Socialist past (including an alleged activity in the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS and a membership in the " Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler "), which he had kept quiet until then, became known. Quednau was excluded from the GDR writers ' association and moved to the Federal Republic .

In West Germany, Werner Quednau lived as a freelance writer in Braunschweig. He published other narrative works, mostly in the form of biographies , as well as radio plays and some scripts for television plays .

Works

  • Three boys sound the alarm , Berlin 1951.
  • Gundula and the Lausbuben , Hildesheim 1951 (under the name Vera Weyden).
  • Gundula's vacation with Willibald , Hildesheim 1951 (under the name Vera Weyden).
  • Klein-Gundula , Hildesheim 1951 (under the name Vera Weyden).
  • Four boys - one girl - a strange gentleman , Hildesheim 1951 (under the name Werner Weyden).
  • What Gundula and Klaus experience , Hildesheim 1951 (under the name Vera Weyden).
  • Rufa and her sisters , Berlin 1953.
  • The prisoners of Murano , Berlin 1954.
  • Gisela's mysterious journey , Hanover 1954 (under the name Vera Reichert).
  • Fighters for Life , Berlin 1954; later under the title Robert Koch [- from the life of a great doctor].
  • Clara Schumann , Berlin 1955.
  • The sisters of the golden city , Berlin 1955.
  • Riot between two oceans , Berlin 1956.
  • Fever, Death and Water , Berlin 1956.
  • The Black Trench , Berlin 1956.
  • The doctor Dorothea Christiana , Berlin 1958.
  • Alarm in Bärwald , Hanover [among others] 1960.
  • Maria Sibylla Merian , Gütersloh 1961.
  • The great symphony , Gütersloh 1963.
  • Antitoxin - a great discovery , Stuttgart 1964.
  • Fever Hell Panama , Stuttgart 1966.

literature

  • Christian Adam : The dream of the year zero: Authors, bestsellers, readers: The reorganization of the world of books in East and West after 1945. Galiani, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86971-122-5 , pp. 260–262.
  • Harry Waibel : Servant 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 , p. 255.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Quednau . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1958 ( online - 24 December 1958 ).
personal data
SURNAME Quednau, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichert, Vera (pseudonym); Weyden, Vera (pseudonym); Weyden, Werner (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastenburg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 2004
Place of death Braunschweig