Rudolf Fischer (writer)

Rudolf Fischer (6 March 1901 – 4 June 1957) was a German writer.

Rudolf Fischer
Wolfgang Schreyer, Franz Fühmann and Rudolf Fischer
Wolfgang Schreyer, Franz Fühmann and Rudolf Fischer
BornRudolf Fischer
(1901-03-06)6 March 1901
Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
Died4 June 1957(1957-06-04) (aged 56)
Dresden, East Germany
OccupationWriter
NationalityGerman
CitizenshipEast German
Period1950s
GenreProse
SubjectSocialist realism
Notable worksMartin Hoop IV
Notable awardsHeinrich Mann Prize
1956

Life

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Rudolf Fischer was born in Dresden. He came from a working-class family. After he had taken the Abitur in 1921, he worked as a salesman. He would become unemployed and later was employed as a mail carrier. During World War II he worked for the Feldpost.[1]

After the war, Fischer suffered with health problems, which continued in the post-war era. He began writing narratives and experienced the demands of state jobs of East Germany. He worked as a face worker in the Zwickau coal mines as a source of studying. He received the 1956 Heinrich Mann Prize. He died in Dresden in 1957.

Rudolf Fischer became known mainly for his novel "Martin Hoop IV" one of the East German critics' highest praised work of socialist realism, in which the authentic collapse through sabotage set off a firedamp in the Zwickau Mine Four from the year 1952 and described its consequences.

Works

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  • Martin Hoop IV, Berlin 1955
  • Dem Unbekannten auf der Spur (The Unknown from the Trail), Berlin 1956

References

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  1. ^ Christa Wolf: In diesen Jahren: deutsche Erzähler der Gegenwart, Reclam, Leipzig, 1960. Page 399.
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