Werner Reinowski

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Writers at the “agra”, Leipzig, July 5, 1968, from left to right: Werner Bräunig , Jochen Schäfers, Werner Heiduczek and Werner Reinowski.

Werner Reinowski (born October 13, 1908 in Bernburg / Saale ; † July 22, 1987 in Rottleberode ) was a German writer .

Life

Werner Reinowski came from a working class family; he was the brother of the journalist Hans Reinowski . Werner Reinowski grew up in Braunschweig and completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter by 1926 . During his apprenticeship he became a member of the Socialist Workers Youth . After a period of unemployment, Reinowski worked as an unskilled worker in foundries in Blankenburg (Harz) and Wernigerode . During this time he wrote his first articles for the workers' press. In 1927 he joined the SPD ; In 1932 he switched to the KPD . After the National Socialist “ seizure of power ” in 1933, he was taken into “ protective custody ”; from 1934 he worked again as a foundry worker. In April 1945 Reinowski, who had participated in resistance activities during the entire Nazi regime and had been arrested several times by the Gestapo , was released from custody.

Werner Reinowski was active again in the KPD after the end of World War II and in the SED since 1946 . At first he worked as a full-time district secretary, from 1950 he was a member of the SED state leadership in Saxony-Anhalt , and later the SED district leadership in Halle . From 1952 he lived as a freelance writer and member of an LPG in Rottleberode ; he was also party secretary of the company party organization of this company.

Werner Reinowski was the author of novels and short stories that initially dealt mainly with problems of the socialist transformation of agriculture in the early GDR ; Later, broader descriptions of the lives of members of the workers' movement, which encompassed the period from the German Empire to the founding years of the GDR, were created .

Werner Reinowski was a member of the GDR Writers' Union , of which he was a board member from 1956 to 1963. He received u. a. 1956 the art price of the city of Halle , 1959 the patriotic order of merit in bronze, 1968 the same medal in silver and 1978 in gold and 1985 the bar of honor for the patriotic order of merit in gold.

Works

  • The little head . Hall 1952
  • The chaff falls from the wheat . Halle (Saale) 1952
  • This world must be ours . Halle (Saale) 1953
  • Friendship . Hall 1956
  • The cheerful Heinrich . Halle (Saale) 1956
  • The temptation . Halle (Saale) 1956
  • The song of the good man . Berlin 1958
  • Two brothers . 2 volumes, Berlin 1959
  • The impatient one . Halle / Saale 1960
  • Brother's fault . Berlin 1961
  • Bernard Koenen . Halle / Saale 1962
  • Wedding over the year and day . Halle (Saale) 1964
  • The Bitterfelder Weg in the socialist village . Berlin 1965
  • Socialist leadership in agriculture . Berlin 1966 (together with Karl Hecht)
  • Moral courage . Halle / Saale 1969
  • A coup d'état between the fronts . Berlin 1970
  • Inconvenient girlfriend . Halle (Saale) 1973
  • The Guldenwiese . Halle (Saale) 1975
  • High time at the Honigsee . Halle [et al.] 1984
  • Weeds don't go away . Halle [et al.] 1986

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , March 1, 1985, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Reinowski, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1987
Place of death Rottleberode