biography
| name: |
Hermlin, Stephan
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originally Rudolf Leder
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pronunciation:
[hairmleen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1915–97)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Chemnitz, E Germany. He became a member of the youth wing of the Communist Party (1931), then left the country (1936), taking part in the Spanish Civil War and later working for the French resistance. He returned to Germany in 1945 and moved to the East in 1947. His writing, which includes poetry and prose, focuses on the anti-fascist resistance during the Third Reich and the rebirth of socialism in East Germany. His poetry with its symbolic and surrealistic elements displays a strict adherence to form, and includes 12 Balladen (1945) and 22 Balladen (1947). He also wrote for radio and produced the children's book Die Argonauten (1974). |
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