Hanns Maaßen
Hanns Maassen ( born December 26, 1908 as Otto Johannes Maassen in Lübeck, † 23 June 1983 in Mahlow ) was a German journalist and writer.
Life
Hanns Maaßen came from a working class family. He completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason and worked in this profession. He was a member of the Young Communist League of Germany and from 1928 the KPD. In 1931 he took part in Kiel in a protest strike the stone workers association against the incipient upgrade; The occasion was the launching of Germany. Maaßen was editor of the communist " Norddeutsche Zeitung". After the National Socialists took power in 1933, he went into hiding, but was arrested later that year and spent a year in a concentration camp Kislau / Baden. In 1935 he left Germany and emigrated on the Saarland and France to Switzerland.
After he had been active in journalism in Zurich for the "Committee for Justice and Liberty ," Maassen took from November 1936 on the Republican side as a member of the " International Brigades " in the Spanish Civil War in part. He was editor of the German edition of the newspaper of the International Brigades " El voluntario de la libertad " and 1938/39, also the spokesman in the German " Freedom Station 29.8 ". After the defeat of the Republicans in 1939 Maaßen was arrested and spent the following years in prisons and camps of the Franco regime. In 1946 he was able to return to Germany; he settled in the Soviet occupation zone.
Hanns Maaßen initially worked as a commentator for the station Leipzig, where he was in 1950 but dismissed because of "leftist deviations". From 1953 to 1966 he was editor of the magazine published in Leipzig " folk art ", and from 1968 to 1971 deputy editor of the East German weekly newspaper "Sunday". From 1971, he lived as a freelance writer in Kleinmachnow.
Hanns Maaßen wrote essays on literary themes and narrative works in which he, inter alia, processed the experiences of his longtime residence Spain.
Hanns Maassen received the 1957 Heinrich Mann Prize, in 1959 the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1960 Art Prize of the City of Leipzig, in 1969 the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver, 1979 Art Prize of fdgb and the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.
Works
- The exhibition at the Barcelo, Halle ( Saale) in 1956
- The sons of Chapaev, Berlin 1960
- The cruisers baptism, Berlin 1963
- Spain, Leipzig 1965
- Potsdam, Leipzig 1969
- In the hour of danger, Berlin 1971
- Memorial of the German Brigades, Berlin 1974
- Odio y amor, Leipzig, 1967 ( together with Karl Kormes )
- Brigada Internacional is our honor ... Name, Berlin Vol 1 (1974)
- Vol 2 (1974)