Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1989 - 10 Pfennig

Important personalities The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes five multicolored special postage stamps with illustrations of important personalities. Special cancellation from February 28 to April 27, 1989 Adam Scharrer Adam Scharrer is one of the proletarian-revolutionary German writers whose 100th birthday is the occasion for an appreciation of their life and work. On 13 July 1889 he was born in Klein-Schwarzenlohe (Lower Bavaria) as the son of a community shepherd. After a locksmith apprenticeship and several years of traveling, Scharrer became a metalworker. After the First World War, which he experienced as a soldier and armaments worker, Adam Scharrer joined the revolutionary workers' movement in 1918. In 1933 he had to leave Germany and fought with words and deeds from exile (CSSR, USSR) against Hitler fascism. In 1945 he returned to his homeland and worked until his death (March 2, 1948) in Schwerin for the socialist new beginning in his homeland. Scharrer is one of the most important authors of German proletarian-revolutionary literature. In his often autobiographical novels and stories he described with detailed knowledge and strong commitment the hard life of the exploited poor in town and country and their growing rebellion against distress and oppression. His own experience in the years of the World War he designed already in his first novel, "Fatherless Fellows" (1930), which revealed in an episodic presentation of the socioeconomic roots of the imperialist war. In his village novels "Moles" (Prague 1934) and "The Herdsman of Rauhweiler" (Moscow 1942) as well as in the "Village Histories - Somewhat Different" (1948) he drew a social history of German from the perspective of the rural proletariat in lifelike images and gripping conflicts Village from the end of the 19th century until the end of World War II, at the same time exposing the mendacity of fascist blood and soil literature. Scharrer described his difficult journey from herding boy to the class-conscious proletarian in the novel "In the early years" (1946), one of the most impressive literary autobiographies of early socialist German literature.