Kurt Stern
Kurt Stern ( born September 18, 1907 in Berlin, † September 3, 1989 ) was a German journalist, communist, writer, screenwriter and translator. After 1949 he lived in East Germany, where he was a friend of Johannes R. Becher, Anna Seghers, and Christa Wolf.
Life
Stern was born into a Jewish family in Berlin. His parents were deported to Auschwitz and murdered.
Kurt Stern completed a commercial apprenticeship and laid at night school from the High School. Subsequently, he studied in Berlin and Paris. In 1927 he joined the Communist Party. 1930-1931 he was head of the communist empire students fraction. 1932 Star went to France to study at the Sorbonne in Paris and married the Frenchwoman Jeanne Machin, whom he had met in Berlin. Later he was editor of the political and literary monthly magazine Our Time. He was from 1936 to 1939 political commissar in the International Brigades in Spain. He was then interned in southern France. The diary, which he wrote in 1939-1940 detention, was released in 2006 and is regarded as an important document of the German emigration.
In 1942 he managed to escape to Mexico. There he worked in the motion for a Free Germany with. In 1944 he was secretary of the Heinrich -Heine- club and editor of the magazine " Free Germany ".
In 1946, he returned over France back to Germany and became a member of the SED. He has worked as a freelance writer and was with his wife screenwriter several DEFA films. Stern was a member of the PEN center of the GDR and member of the Executive Board of the Writers' Union.
Kurt Stern was buried in the cemetery Pankow III.
Honors
Screenplays
Works
- Battlegrounds, 1967 ( report )
- Vietnam, 1969 ( report )
- Paris, 1972 ( report )
- What will happen to us? Diaries of internment in 1939 and 1940. Preface Christa Wolf. Build, Berlin 2006 ISBN 3-351-02624-2 ( Appendix: Letters of Anna Seghers ).