Helmut Hauptmann
Helmut Hauptmann is a German writer who was mainly active in the then East Germany.Life
Helmut Hauptmann grew up in a working-class family in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Near the end of World War II, he served as a Luftwaffenhelfer in Berlin and became a Prisoner of war at a camp in Schleswig-Holstein. After the Abitur, he worked with the Magistrate of Greater Berlin. Since the early 1950s, he has worked as a literary editor, journalist, and writer in Berlin.
Hauptmann writes narrative works that reflect the ideological optimism of early East Germany as well as travel journals which captured the experience of the writer in the Eastern Bloc.
Hauptmann was a member of the Schriftstellerverband of East Germany since 1956 and the P.E.N.-Zentrums of East Germany since 1972. He is the recipient of the Erich Weinert Medal, the Heinrich Mann Prize, the art prize of the Free German Trade Union Federation, and as well as the Heinrich Heine Prize.
Hauptmann and his wife Ursula currently live in Berlin-Weißensee.Works
- Das Geheimnis von Sosa, Berlin 1950
- Studiert wie Angelika und Hans Joachim!, Berlin 1951
- Schwarzes Meer und weiße Rosen, Berlin 1956
- Donaufahrt zu dritt, Berlin 1957
- Die Karriere des Hans Dietrich Borssdorf alias Jakow, Berlin 1958
- Der Unsichtbare mit dem roten Hut, Berlin 1958
- Sieben stellen die Uhr, Berlin 1959
- Hanna, Berlin 1963
- Das komplexe Abenteuer Schwedt, Halle 1964
- Der Kreis der Familie, Halle 1964
- Blauer Himmel, blaue Helme, Halle 1965
- Ivi, Halle 1969
- Warum ich nach Horka ging, Bautzen 1971
- Das unteilbare Leben, Halle 1972
- Standpunkt und Spielraum, Halle 1977
- DDR-Reportage, Leipzig 1969
