Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1977 - 10 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1977 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues four special postage stamps commemorating important personalities. No special first-day cover. Major figures 10-pfennig value: Arnold Zweig Arnold Zweig was born on 10 November 1887 in Glogau Lower Silesia (Glogow / People's Republic of Poland). His development, literary as well as political, was initially in the wings of the young intellectual pre-war generation. His first great success, the novel "The novellas to Claudia" (1912), was based essentially on the identification of a part of this generation with his heroes. It was only the contact with reality, the participation in World War I as a reinforcing soldier, that gave Zweig the knowledge of his true situation and opened his eyes to the true authors of wars and crises. The consequences he drew found their literary expression in a cycle about the First World War, whose introductory novel, "The Dispute over the Serious Grisha" (1927), founded his world fame. Zweig recognized early on the danger of rising fascism and fought against it with words and writing. The years of emigration in Mandate Palestine brought him to a convinced socialist. The call to help rebuild the German culture after the destruction of fascism, he immediately followed and returned in 1948 to Berlin. Here he worked as the first acting president of the German Academy of Arts, as a People's Chamber member and in other institutions in the co-creation, development and consolidation of the German Democratic Republic. Here he also completed his large-scale work on the 1st World War. Arnold Zweig died on 26 November 1968 in Berlin.