GDR writer Walter BAUMERT: 2.4 kg drafts / novel

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They bid on extensive materials (mostly handwritten by hand, sometimes also typewritten in carbon copy) of GDR writer Walter Baumert (1929-2016).

To his 1981 published Novel “Look at the Earth” about the young Friedrich Engels; Filmed in 1985 under the title "Flight of the Falcon" (The novel was also published under this title in West Germany).

There are one thick stack of loose sheets (partly held together by paper clips) about the first two books and e.gwhite folders with loose sheets of paper about the third and fourth books (in A4 format).

Thickness of stacking incl. of the two folders: 6cm; Weight: 2.4kg

It is a long-term work (since the late 1960s); For example, there is a receipt to Baumert with a reference to Engels from 1969, a letter from the DFF to Baumert from 1971, etc.

About the novel: "With the major developmental novel about the young Friedrich Engels' revolutionary-democratic awakening LOOK AT THE EARTH (1981), which was published at the same time in the Federal Republic under the title THE FLIGHT OF THE FALCON and undoubtedly represents the highlight of his literary career to date, the author achieved international success Breakthrough as a novelist (total circulation of all editions and foreign language adaptations 250,000). While the novel was enthusiastically received in the Soviet Union as a contribution to perestroika, the GDR press media preferred, at higher behest, to pass over this clearly anti-authoritarian roman à clef "for youth policy reasons" with silence." (Source: publisher's announcement, Edition degital Pekrul & Sohn 2012).

These are drafts, still with a different working title:

-The Road to the Damned. The life story of the young angel, recreated from documents.

Initially divided into three books: 1. Part: Jungsiegfried (1835-1838), 2. Part Farewell to Dreams (1838-1841), 3. Part Little Ire, the Street of the Damned (1841-1844). Ultimately there was a fourth book (untitled here).

The drafts are not complete, meaning not all passages of the finished novel are covered. Some chapters are available in multiple versions; it's a bit disorganized overall. There are also collections of material, treatises on the structure of the novel, etc.

Condition: Pages often browned and stained; partly with edge damage. bplease note also the pictures at the end of the item description!

At the same time, I am offering original poems and other drafts of novels by Walter Baumert!

Internal note: Baumert

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About Walter Baumert (source: wikipedia):

Walter Baumert (*19. February 1929 in Erfurt; † 22. September 2016 in Berlin) was a German writer. He primarily wrote scripts for GDR television films.

Life: Walter Baumert came from a Prussian civil servant family. As a 16-year-old high school student, he volunteered for the Volkssturm, lost his father and parents' home in Posen, was taken prisoner by the Americans and finally found his mother in a village in Eichsfeld. After the revelations at the Nuremberg Trials, he lost his youthful ideals and broke with his bourgeois world.

He learned to be a bricklayer in preparation for studying architecture, but studied philosophy from 1952 to 1958 and then worked for GDR television. He wrote the scripts and television play scenarios for 23 films, some of them in multiple parts. The continuation of his socially critical cycle “Café on Main Street” was banned in 1976. The planned 12-part series about Friedrich Engels' youth was also on hold for 10 years until it was reduced to four parts and broadcast in the GDR in 1985 and taken over by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1989. Production of the two-part television play “The Challenge” was stopped twice until the film was allowed to be broadcast in a heavily shortened and defused form in 1986. The production of the two-part historical television film “The First Year of Liberation” was completely banned. Two of Baumert's books were published at the same time in the GDR and the Federal Republic.

At 16. In June 1961, Walter Baumert received the FDGB literary prize from Herbert Warnke in Magdeburg (left in the picture)

Literature and art prizes

Literature Prize of the Free German Trade Union Federation 1959, 1961

Erich Weinert Medal 1960

Children's and Young People's Book Prize from the GDR Minister for Culture in 1962

Art Prize of the Free German Trade Union Federation 1982 (collectively), 1983, 1987 (collectively)

Main prize of INTERVISION Plovdiv 1981 (collective).

factories

And WEN the devil does not torment... Children's book publisher Berlin, 1975

Look at the earth. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1981. The Flight of the Falcon. Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1981 (two identical editions under different titles)

The investigation. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1985. Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1985

Poems from five decades 1945 - 1995. EDITION digital, Pinnow 2012

Filmography

1959: The green folder

1960: Love at the last sight (according to with Winfried Nonnewitz)

1960: The Avalanche

1961: Honeymoon without husband (acc. with Hans-Georg Kalb)

1961: The unknown quantity

1961: If you stick with me

1962: The night on the highway

1962: The new slogan (according to with Werner Dworski)

1963: The silver wedding anniversary

1965: Episodes of Happiness, 2 parts

1966: Shadow over Notre-Dame (according to with Herbert Schauer and Otto Bonhoff), 4 parts

1967: For each other, 1. Part: The Designer 2. Part: The factory manager

1968: Secret ode B 13, (according to. with Armin Müller based on the novel by Eduard Fiker), 4 parts

1968: The Black Rider (acc. with Armin Müller), 3 parts

1969: The Lawyer (acc. with Otto Bonhoff)

1969: Longing for Sabine, from the cycle “Café on Main Street”

1970: Dust and Roses, from the cycle “Café on Main Street”

1976: A chance for Manuela, from the cycle “Café on the Main Street”

1976: Farewell to Gabriela, from the cycle “Café on Main Street”

1981: The investigation

1985: Flight of the Falcon, based on the novel "Look at the Earth", 4 parts

1986: The Challenge