Rudolf Fischer (writer)

Rudolf Fischer ( born March 6, 1901 in Dresden, † June 4, 1957 in Dresden ) was a German writer.

Life

Rudolf Fischer was born into a working class family. After 1921, the Graduate stored, he worked as a clerk. He was unemployed and later worked as a postman. Since the Second World War, Fischer suffered from health problems, which continued in the postwar period. He began writing stories and learned promotion by government agencies of the GDR. In 1952, he worked half as study Hauer in Zwickau coal industry. In 1956 he received the Heinrich Mann Prize. Fischer died in 1957 in Dresden and was buried in the St. Pauli Cemetery.

Rudolf Fischer was known especially for his novel Martin Hoop IV, a highly acclaimed by the GDR critique works of socialist realism, in which the authentic case of a triggered sabotage firedamp disaster in Zwickau coalfield from 1952 and its consequences are described.

Works

• Martin Hoop IV, Berlin 1955
• The unknowns on the trail, Berlin 1956