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Hans Lorbeer

ハンス・ロルベア

Hansu Rorubēa

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1901-08-15 (Lutherstadt Wittenberg)
Died
1973-09-07 (Lutherstadt Wittenberg, East Germany) age 72
Nationality
German
Languages
German
Residence History
Kleinwittenberg and Piesteritz, districts of Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Career

Occupations
Politician, Writer, Journalist
Active Years
1925-1973
Affiliations
Akademie der Künste

Awards

Heinrich Mann Prize
1959
Organization: Akademie der Künste
Result: 受賞
National Prize of East Germany
1961
Result: 受賞
Mündel Prize
1963
Organization: Halle Bezirk
Result: 受賞
Lion Feuchtwanger Prize
1971
Result: 受賞
Patriotic Order of Merit (gold)
Result: 受賞
Order of the Banner of Labor
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Die Rebellen von Wittenberg

1956 Novel

Trilogy about rebels in Wittenberg.

Workers' movementRebellion

Die Sieben ist eine gute Zahl

1953 Novel

Chronik in Versen

1971 Poetry

Poems from five decades.

Bibliography

  • Chronik in Versen
  • A Man is Beaten
  • Seven is a Good Number
  • The Rebels of Wittenberg
  • The Spider
  • Wake Up!
  • The Legend of the Soldier Daniel
  • Early Spring and Other Life Histories
  • The Birch Hill
  • Of Friendly Memories
  • A Life Long
  • Poems of a Young Worker
  • The Rail Harp
  • The Daily Song
  • It Sings a People From all Streets
  • When you were thirty-seven
  • The Streets go
  • Die Trinker
  • Liebknecht-Luxemburg-Lenin
  • Panzerkreuzer Potemkin
  • Phosphor

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Proletarian literatureSocialist realism
Recurring Motifs
Working classAnti-fascism

Legacy

German communist writer and politician in East Germany, recipient of several literary prizes. Posthumously named honorary citizen of Lutherstadt Wittenberg in 1976.

Trivia

  • Born illegitimate child, raised by foster parents.
  • Expelled from KPD in 1931, reinstated in 1945.