biography
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Strittmacher, Erwin
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pronunciation:
[shtritmakher]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1912–94)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Stremburg, E Germany. Originally a baker and later village mayor (1945), he went on to become one of the most widely read East German authors. Written in the tradition of Socialist Realism, his semi-autobiographical books show him to be a masterful storyteller with his colourful and humorous descriptions of village life in East Germany c.1945, such as Ochsenkutscher (1951) and Der Wundertäter (1957). His play Katzgraben (1954) was dramatized and staged by Bertolt Brecht. |
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