Horst Deichfuß
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Horst Deichfuß (11 April 1925 – 6 October 1989) was a German writer.
Life
[edit]Born in Halberstadt, In 1943 Deichfuß was drafted for military service and in 1945/46 was a US-American or British prisoner of war.
After his return from captivity in 1947 he passed the Abitur. He then worked as a mailman for the Deutsche Post der DDR. In 1948 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.[1] In 1955 he founded a cultural group at the Deutsche Post in Halle. In 1961 he completed a correspondence course in postal economics at the engineering school "Rosa Luxemburg" in Leipzig.
From 1963 to 1965 Deichfuß studied at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. In 1965/66 he was a lecturer for theatre and literature at the Halle City Council. From 1966 to 1969 he was the district secretary of the Writers' Association Halle. From 1967 to 1972 he headed a Zirkel Schreibender Arbeiter. From 1969 he was active as a freelance author.
Deichfuß died in Halle after a short severe illness at the age of 64.[2]
Work
[edit]- Serpentinen (novel).[3] Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1962.
- Anna Mater. Drei Frauenschicksale[4] (tales). List, Leipzig 1971.
- Die Nagelprobe (novel). List, Leipzig 1974.
- Wiederaufnahme[5] (novel). List, Leipzig 1977
- Windmacher (novel). List, Leipzig 1983.
- Rumänische Rhapsodie. Literarische Skizzen.[6] Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1987.
References
[edit]- ^ "Horst Deichfuss". Demnächst im Lexikon? Porträts junger Autoren. Halle (Saale): Mitteldeutscher Verlag. 1961. p. 18.
- ^ Schriftsteller Horst Deichfuß gestorben. In Neues Deutschland, 11 October 1989, p. 4.
- ^ Serpentinen on WorldCat
- ^ Anna Mater. Drei Frauenschicksale on deutsche-digitale-bibliothek
- ^ Wiederaufnahme on WorldCat
- ^ Rumänische Rhapsodie on WorldCat
Further reading
[edit]- Kurt Böttcher (editor): Meyers Taschenlexikon. Schriftsteller der DDR. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1974, p. 111.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (editor): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ/DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth – Lyr. K. G. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2, p. 115.
- Wilhelm Kosch et al. (editors): Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Band 6: Deeg – Dürrenfeld. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-908255-06-6, Sp. 25f.
- Rüdiger Bernhardt: Schreibende Arbeiter der DDR zwischen Arbeiter- und Gesellschaftskultur. In Dominique Herbet (editor): Culture ouvrière. Arbeiterkultur. Mutations d’une réalité complexe en Allemagne du XIXe au XXIe siècle. Presses universitaires du Septentrion, Villeneuve-d’Ascq 2011, ISBN 978-2-7574-0210-8, p. 117–150 (zu Deichfuß, S. 125f.)
External links
[edit]- Literature by and about Horst Deichfuß in the German National Library catalogue
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