Karl Zuchardt
Karl Zuchardt ( born February 10, 1887 in Leipzig, † November 12, 1968 in Dresden ) was a German writer and playwright.
Life
The son of a bookseller attended from 1897 to 1906, the Second Municipal Junior High School, and St. Peter School in his hometown. He then studied in Freiburg, Berlin and Leipzig, literature, history, economics and philosophy. In 1910 he received his doctorate in philosophy and was in 1911 the state exam. From 1910 to 1912 he was an assistant at the Historical Institute of the University of Leipzig. His teaching career began in 1912 at the secondary school in the north of Leipzig. 1913 he was appointed teacher. From 1914 to 1916 he taught at the König- Friedrich -August- teacher seminar in Dresden- chasing. From 1916 to 1918 taught Zuchardt at the German school in Aleppo. At the end of the First World War, he returned to Germany and took a teaching position at Queen Carola High School in Leipzig. From 1919 to 1925 he worked at the German secondary school in Barcelona. Since 1925 he lived in Dresden, where he taught at the secondary school Seevorstadt.
By the end of Hitler's dictatorship his literary work consisted mainly of works for the stage, after which he was confined to the epic. From 1945 to 1957 held Zuchardt literature lectures at the Musikhochschule Dresden University of Technology. In 1961 he received the Martin Andersen Nexo Art Prize of the City of Dresden.
Zuchardt died in 1968 in Dresden and was buried at the local cemetery Heath.