Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1974 - 20 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1974 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes five special postage stamps with illustrations of important personalities. 20-Pfennig-Wert: Ehm Welk Ehm Welk, born on August 29, 1884 in a village near Angermünde, the son of a farmer, is one of the most important socialist German writers as a novelist and narrator, but also as a film dramatist and playwright , He died - with high state awards, among other things, with the national price of the GDR, honored - on 19 December 1966 in bath Doberan. While still attending a village school and a junior high school mainly as a journalist, Ehm Welk always sided with the oppressed people. His courageous behavior against fascism resulted in a concentration camp imprisonment and a ban on work. After the liberation, he gained great merit through his cultural pact work in Mecklenburg. As a writer, he has become well-known mainly through the novels "The Pagans of Kummerow" (1937) and "The Just of Kummerow" (1942). For the film "Kein Hüsing", after Fritz Reuter, he wrote the screenplay. His other novels and stories, as well as the sensational dramas of the twenties, are characterized by knowledge of human nature, literary skill and clear political affiliation - including people and humanistic sentiments. The series of humorous peasant novels, whose content stood in marked contrast to the "blood-and-ground" myth of the fascists, has secured him a large readership for decades. Since 1955 Ehm Welk belonged to the Academy of Arts of the GDR.