Werner Schmoll

Werner Schmoll at a book bazaar in Leipzig in 1967

Werner Schmoll (born December 11, 1926 in Leipzig ; pseudonym: Jean Taureau ) is a German writer .

Life

Werner Schmoll is the son of a carpenter . From 1941 to 1943 he completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical fitter . Then he was drafted into the Navy and took part in World War II as a soldier . From 1946 to 1950 studied it law at the University of Leipzig . After that he was temporarily a member of the People's Police and magazine editor . From 1955 to 1956 he took part in a course at the literature institute “Johannes R. Becher” in Leipzig . He then lived as a freelance writer in Leipzig and later in East Berlin .

Werner Schmoll is the author of novels , short stories and books for young people . In his first two books he processed his experiences as a people's police officer and his time in the Schwarze Pumpe gas combine . His most successful novel At seventeen you are not yet a hero belongs to the so-called arrival literature , a trend in GDR literature of the early 1960s. Schmoll's later work consists mainly of books for young people and crime novels .

Werner Schmoll had been a member of the GDR Writers' Association since 1962 . He received in 1963 the literature prize of the FDGB and the Art Prize of the city of Leipzig .

Works

• Gefreiter Ruhland, Berlin-Wilhelmsruh 1960 (= short story series no.7)
• Pine trees and cooling towers, Berlin 1960
• At seventeen you are not a hero, Halle / Saale 1962
• The detectives from Wenceslas Square, Berlin 1963
• Lions, sultanas and a detective, Berlin 1965
• Monsieur stays in the shadow, Berlin 1971 (under the name Jean Taureau, together with Jürgen Brinkmann)
• A cloud of sheet metal or My crazy stories, Berlin 1973
• Accidentally Stefanie, Berlin 1977
• The second death, Berlin 1980 (under the name Jean Taureau)

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Schmoll in the catalog of the German National Library