Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1972 - 10 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1972 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes five special postage stamps with illustrations of important personalities. No special first-day cover 10 Pfennig value Johannes Tralow Now 90 years was the novelist, narrator, playwright, director and long-time president of the German PEN center - East and West, Johannes Tralow, the son of a furrier, on August 2, 1882 in Lübeck born. When he died on February 27, 1968 in the capital of the GDR, he left his still millions counting readers community at home and abroad with his 10 historical novels - especially with his "Ottoman Tetralogy" - a still undiminished living legacy, its value and Meaning can not be more accurately described as in the congratulatory address of the Central Committee of the SED and the State Council of the German Democratic Republic on the 85th birthday of the poet: "Your great literary work, which is characterized by a genuine combination of historical materials with high artistic quality, has Their books, supported by real humanism and advocacy of progress, are an indelible part of our national literature, not only teaching the innumerable readers but also helping with all-round socialism the consciousness of our people and the appropriation of the great cultural assets of history. " Tralow's books were undesirable in fascist Germany. The GDR honored its services to literature and peace by awarding the title of professor and the medal for peace. Tralow's commitment to the forces of progress and the first German workers 'and peasants' state found its most obvious expression on October 6, 1967, when he transferred all his literary estate to the German State Library, Berlin, which had appointed him honorary reader. Carefully explored for scientific use, today the materials of the "Tralow Archive" provide information about the life and work of the poet and peacemaker who laid his final resting place at the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery in Berlin alongside Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht and Johannes R Found a mug. His books are published annually in the publishing house of the nation, Berlin, in high circulation and conquer more and more new friends.