Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1978 - 15 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1978 To commemorate important personalities, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues seven special postage stamps. No special First Day Cover Special cancellation from 18 July to 17 September 1978 15 Pfennig value: ALFRED DÖBLIN (10 August 1878 to 26 June 1957) Alfred Döblin is one of the greatest humanist bourgeois writers of German-language literature of the 20th century. Bertolt Brecht called him a "great epic poet," and Johannes R. Becher, too, was a friend of Doblin despite his many ideological antagonisms. After 1945 Becher sought to continue the earlier contact, which had already begun at the time of the Weimar Republic and had been renewed during the years of emigration. Thus Döblin's last novel "Hamlet or The Long Night Takes an End" first appeared in the German Democratic Republic (1956). For his first novel "The Three Jumps of Wanglun" (1916) Döblin has been honored with the Fontane Prize. He achieved world success with the novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz", published in 1929. Döblin has also worked as a publicist - under the pseudonym Linke Poot. He was very involved in the Association of German Writers and in the Academy of Arts. During the emigration Alfred Döblin u.a. written a multi-volume novel about the German November Revolution of 1919. In addition, he has contributed significantly to the clarification of politically important theoretical problems. He has also participated in anti-fascist propaganda campaigns under Jean Giraudoux. Doblin did not give up his militant anti-fascist attitude even after the 1941 conversion to the Catholic faith. This explains the disappointment of his last two years. Already in 1946 Döblin had returned home, but the restoration and remilitarization in the Federal Republic, which was soon to begin again, drove him back to France, where he lived from 1952 to 1957.