Bernhard Seeger

Bernhard Seeger ( born October 6, 1927 in Roßlau on the Elbe, † March 14, 1999 in Potsdam ) was a German writer.

Life

Bernhard Seeger was the son of a locksmith. He attended middle school and then a teacher training college in Köthen. In 1944, he joined the NSDAP. After completing his work of service in Zerbst, he took 1944/45, a soldier in the Wehrmacht in World War II in part. From May to December 1945 he was in Soviet captivity.

After his return from captivity Seeger graduated from a course for new teachers. In 1946 he joined the SED and the FDJ. Between 1946 and 1952 he worked as a teacher in village schools in the Mark Brandenburg. 1952/53, he was an editor in the publishing house New Life; 1953-1956 he worked as a freelance writer in pieces at Potsdam. In 1954/55 he spent as a reporter in Vietnam; then he was Head of the Secretariat of the German Writers' Association and from 1957 again freelance writer.

In 1967, Seeger was a long time write disabled because of a serious accident. After he had been a member since 1964, the Potsdam district leadership of the SED, he was from 1967 a member of the Central Committee of the SED. Between 1953 and 1972 he was informer of the Ministry of State Security of the GDR.

Bernhard Seeger wrote reports, short stories, novel, and poetry; He was best known for his radio and television games. Seegers toe the party line works deal mainly problems of the construction phase of GDR society; the highly acclaimed by the GDR criticism work " autumn smoke " about the collectivization of agriculture in the GDR between 1959 /60 strongly influenced by Sholokhov's " Virgin Soil Upturned ". He also worked as a screenwriter, he was involved in the 1963 TV movie hoarfrost.

Bernhard Seeger belonged since 1952 to the German Writers' Association and from 1969 to 1991 the Academy of Arts (Berlin). He received the following awards:. 1956 Theodor Fontane Prize of the district of Potsdam, 1960 Erich- Weinert- Medal, the 1962 Heinrich Mann Prize and the Literature of fdgb, 1963 and 1967, a National Award, 1968 John R - cup medal, the Order of 1969 " Banner of Labor ", 1981 and 1983, the art prize of the fdgb, 1983, the Patriotic Order of Merit of the German Democratic Republic and in 1987 the Karl -Marx- Orden.

Works

  • Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost, Berlin 1952
  • Million empire and Heller piece, Berlin 1956
  • Storm of bamboo huts, Berlin 1956
  • Where the hawk shoots, Halle ( Saale) in 1957
  • How Jasgulla came to his right, Leipzig 1960
  • Autumn smoke, Halle ( Saale), 1961
  • Hannes consolation mountain. The heirs of the manifesto, Halle ( Saale) in 1968
  • Father Batti sings again, Halle ( S. ) 1972
  • Man's ways, Halle ( Saale) 1 (1974)
  • 2 (1987 )
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