Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1987 - 20 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1987 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes four multicolored special postage stamps with illustrations of important personalities. Special cancellation from 5 May to 4 July 1987 20-Pfennig-Wart: Arnold Zweig (1887-1968) The life and work of this writer reflect the examination of the important historical developments of the 20th century. Connected to the realistic traditions of German and world literary poetry, Arnold Zweig developed from a progressive, bourgeois-humanist to an antifascist writer of world standing with a clear support for the working class and its Marxist-Leninist ideology. He achieved his first success in 1903 with the "short stories about Claudia". The real life's work, however, became "The Great War of the White Men", a cycle (including "King's Incarnation") that emerged from the masterpiece "The Dispute over the Serious Grisha" (1927), which has numerous novels in addition to his novels Arnold Zweig lived in exile in Palestine from 1933 to 1948. Here he wrote the novel "The Hatchet of Wandsbeck" (1943), after which he was president (1950-1953), then until his death Death Honorary President of the German Academy of Arts, Member of the People's Chamber of the GDR (1949-1967), President of the PEN Center of the GDR and member of the World Peace Council In 1950 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR and 1958 the International Lenin Peace Prize.