- Herbert Nachbar
Herbert Nachbar (
12 February 1930 –25 May 1980 ) was a Germanwriter resident in theGerman Democratic Republic .Life
Herbert Nachbar was the son of a
fisherman inGreifswald ,Province of Pomerania . From 1936 to 1940, he attended theVolksschule inWolgast subsequently theLehrerbildungsanstalt inPasewalk . After a short time as anelectrician , he went to school as the Oberschule inRostock where he took hisAbitur . Nachbar begana study ofMedicine at theHumboldt University of Berlin which he broke off after two semesters. He worked as a local reporter andcontributing editor to different East Berlinnewspaper s until 1953 after which as aliterary editor for theAufbau-Verlag . From 1957 he was a freelance writer. Nachbar lived in several towns: until 1959 on the islandUmmanz the from 1960 to 1963 in East Berlin, from 1963 to 1969 inGraal-Müritz as well as again in East Berlin after 1969. From 1968, he was head dramaturg at the Volkstheater in Rostock and later at the East German Television inBerlin . His death inEast Berlin was the result of a difficult disease which had confined him to a wheelchari since 1978.Herbert Nachbar was a member of the
Deutscher Schriftstellerverband and the P.E.N.-Zentrals ofEast Germany .Artistic Creations
Herbert Nachbar was the writer of
novel s,narrative s and television screenplays. In his novels, he depicts the life of a fishing village on theBaltic Sea coast. Later he expanded his themes and assimilated his own experiences in his books. Some of his later works had been shaped by sagas if the Baltic area andScandinavia and bear fantasy and romance features.Awards and Honors
* 1957
Heinrich Mann Prize
* 1961 Literature Prize of theFree German Trade Union Federation
* 1966Johannes R. Becher Medal , in Silver
* 1976National Prize of East Germany , 2nd Class
* 1980Vaterländischer Verdienstorden , in BronzeWorks
* "Der Mond hat einen Hof" (The Moon had a Yard), Berlin 1956
* "Die gestohlene Insel" (The Stolen Island), Berlin 1958
* "Die Hochzeit von Länneken" (The Marriage of Länneken), Berlin 1960
* "Der Tod des Admirals" (The Death of the Admiral), Berlin 1960
* "Brasilienfahrt" (Brasil Trip), Rostock 1961 (together with Gerhard Vetter)
* "Oben fährt der Große Wagen" (The Great Wagon drives above), Rostock 1963
* "Ein Feldherr sucht seine Mutter" (A Command search for his Mother), Rostock 1965
* "Haus unterm Regen" (House under the Rain), Berlin et al. 1965
* "Meister Zillmann" (Master Zillmann), Rostock 1965
* "Die Millionen des Knut Brümmer" (The Millions of the Knut Brümmer), Rostock 1970
* "Ein dunkler Stern" (A Dark Star), Berlin et al. 1973
* "Pumpendings seltsame Reise" (Pumpending's Strange Journey), Berlin et al. 1975
* "Der Weg nach Samoa" (The Way to Samoa), Berlin et al. 1976
* "Das fliegende Paddelboot" (The Flying Paddle Boat), Berlin 1979
* "Keller der alten Schmiede" (Cellar of the Old Forge), Berlin et al. 1979
* "Helena und die Heimsuchung" (Helena and the Afflicted), Berlin 1981
* "Die große Fahrt" (The Great Trip), Berlin et al. 1982
* "Der Junge mit den knielangen Hosen" (The Boy with the knee length Pants), Berlin et al. 1984Editorial Work
*"Die Meisterjungfer" (The Master Maid), Rostock 1970
Literature
* "Zu Nachbar. Ein Almanach" (About Nachbar. An Almanac), Edited by Günter Caspar and Sigrid Töpelmann. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1982.
* "Werner Fritzsche: Darstellung und Gestaltung des Verhältnisses von Individuum und Gesellschaft in der DDR-Literatur, untersucht am literarischen Werk Herbert Nachbars" (Werner Fritzsche: Portrayal and Figure of Indivual and Society in East Germany, exmained Works of Herbert Nachbar), Diss. A, Erfurt-Mühlhausen, Pädag. Hochsch., 1983.External links
* [http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=4.1/REL?PPN=118586149 Literature by and on Herbert Nachbar] in the catalog of the
German National Library Persondata
NAME = Nachbar, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = East German Author
DATE OF BIRTH =February 12 ,1930
PLACE OF BIRTH =Greifswald ,Germany
DATE OF DEATH =May 25 ,1980
PLACE OF DEATH =East Berlin ,Germany
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