Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1987 - 35 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 35 Pfennig value: Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) His extensive work includes dramas in prose and verse, novels and short stories, autobiographical, poems and verses, speeches and essays. "His subtle and profound talent has given many good things to men, enriching their minds and hearts with enchanting beauty" (Maxim Gorki). To the left of the portrait of the poet appears a motif from the graphic cycle "A Weaver Rebellion", which Käte Kollwitz created as Hauptmann's most famous and important drama, the play "Die Weber" (1892) written in Silesian dialect, whose public performance was initially forbidden. Other important works by Gerhart Hauptmann, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912, are the pieces "Der Biberpelz", "Florian Geyer", "Rose Bernd", "Fuhrmann Henschel", "Die Ratten", "Vor Sonnenuntergang" Atridentetralogy ", the stories" Wayfarer Thiel "and" The Heretic of Soana ", the novel" The Fool in Christo Emanuel Quint "and the memories" The Adventure of my Youth ". His entire oeuvre is marked by deep humanism, love and understanding for man and reverence for the culture of all peoples.