Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1981 - 70 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1981 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes six special postage stamps with illustrations of important personalities. No Special First Day Cover Special cancellation from May 5 to July 4, 1981 Important personalities 70 Pfennig value: Wilhelm Raabe (September 8, 1831 to November 15, 1910) Wilhelm Raabe was one of the most important German narrators of the second half of the 19th century. He was a book trade apprentice in Magdeburg in 1849, heard philosophical and historical lectures in Berlin in 1854 and from 1862 in Wolfenbüttel he worked for "Westermanns Monatsheften". He wrote novels and stories for the Berliner "Romanzeitung" and "Über Land und Meer". Raabe achieved fame through his debut work "The Chronicle of the Sperlingsgasse" (1857), an idyllic-contemplative novel in which he describes a threatened by the industrial revolution and the development of the big city petty-bourgeois milieu. In the post-revolutionary literature after 1848 Raabe developed into a profiled realistic writer of national rank, with his trilogy "The Hunger Pastor" (1864), "Abu Telfan or The Return of the Moon Mountains" (1867) and "The Schüdderrump" (1870) created the most important social novels of the sixties.