Dieter Noll ( German: Dieter Noll ; December 31, 1927 , Riesa - February 6, 2008 , Zeuthen ) is a German writer and journalist, author of the novel "The Adventures of Werner Holt."
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| Awards | Heinrich Mann Prize (1961), National GDR Prize (1963) |
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Biography
Dieter Noll was born in the city of Riesa in the family of a pharmacist. Since his mother was a semi-Jew (Halbjüdin), she was repressed in accordance with the Nuremberg racial laws of the Third Reich .
In 1944 he was drafted into the army, served in the air defense forces. At the end of the war he was captured by the Americans. After his release, he received a certificate of maturity, studied at the University of Jena , studied philology, philosophy and art history. In 1946 he joined the Communist Party of Germany , which in the same year was transformed into the SED .
Since 1950, Dieter Noll has lived in Berlin and has been the editor of the magazine Aufbau (Renaissance), as well as an employee of the newspaper Neues Deutschland (New Germany). He traveled a lot in the GDR , wrote essays on production and on people of work. Since 1956 he was a freelance employee and was engaged in literary work.
In 1960, the first volume of the novel "The Adventures of Werner Holt" was published, which reflected the author's personal impressions of 1944-1945. The writer managed to create a vital and attractive image of a German youth, brought up in the spirit of Nazi propaganda, but gradually freed from its influence under the influence of the harsh realities of the war.
The novel was a huge success both in the GDR and abroad: in a short time it was published with a total circulation of over two million copies and translated into fifteen languages [4] . In the GDR, he was included in the school curriculum in literature.
In 1963, the second volume of the novel, The Return , was published. Here Werner Holt long and painfully looking for his place in the new, post-war Germany. Critically evaluating what is happening in the eastern zone, he moves to the western, but soon becomes disillusioned with the capitalist path of development and returns.
The continuation, which had considerable literary advantages, did not have the public resonance that fell to the lot of the first volume.
In 1965, the novel "The Adventures of Werner Holt" was filmed .
In the future, the writer developed several more projects, including the third part of Holt, but was unsatisfied with everything written.
Only in 1979 did Noll's new novel, Kippenberg, go out of print, telling of the creative crisis of a talented scientist who had reached a significant administrative post at a research institute. The novel was a reader's success, albeit incomparable with the triumph of the first volume of Holt.
Dieter Noll was also the author of a number of screenplays.
Died of the effects of cancer.
Scandalous facts
- In May 1979, Dieter Noll, demonstrating his political loyalty, turned to Erich Honneker with an open letter, where he severely criticized dissident writers. The consequence was the expulsion of ten people from the Writers' Union of the GDR (DDR-Schriftstellerverband) in June 1979.
- In 1984, the son of the writer Hans (b. 1954) moved from East Germany to West Berlin. Subsequently, he moved to Israel, where he became known as the writer Chaim Noll .
- In 1996, Der Spiegel magazine exposed Dieter Noll as a freelancer at the Ministry of State Security of the GDR ("Stasi").
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Noll Dieter // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ 1 2 filmportal.de - 2005.
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119157322 // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Mlechina I.V. Life of the novel. On the work of writers of the GDR 1949-1980. - M., 1984. - S. 241
Literature
- Elzbieta Glanc-Boteva: Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Faschismus in der DDR-Literatur , Berlin 1979
- Bernd Schick: Persönlichkeitskonzeption und Roman , Berlin 1981
- Mlechina I.V. Life of the novel. On the work of writers of the GDR 1949-1980. - M. , 1984. - S. 241-260.
- Martina Langermann: Die Herausforderung eines Gegenstandes , Greifswald 1987