GDR writer Walter BAUMERT: Draft novel about WEERTH

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You bid extensive materials (mostly handwritten, rarely also typewritten) des GDR writer Walter Baumert (1929-2016).

About his novel, published by Kinderbuchverlag in 1975 "And WEN is not tormented by the devil...: The youth of the poet Georg Weerth."

George Weerth (* 17. February 1822 in Detmold; † 30 July 1856 in Havana, Cuba) was a German writer, satirist, journalist and businessman.

Folder (2.5 cm thick) with loose leaves (partly held together with paperclips).

The novel here under that Working title "My heart beats for you. George Weerth. The adventures of his life"; on the folder cover another title "Hacienda by the sea. Georg Weerth" (maybe there were originally two different works in the portfolio?).

Enclosed initially a smaller portfolio with drafts for a (apparently unrealized) film adaptation of the novel: "The Fool Poet's Journey into Hell. Memoirs of the poet Georg Weerth on the adventures of his youth. TV film in 2 parts by Walter Baumert and Georg Leopold loosely based on motifs from the novel 'And WEN the devil does not torment...' by Walter Baumert."

The drafts are probably not complete, ie not all passages of the finished novel are covered; some passages are also duplicated. Since the pages are not numbered, the order is not always easy to see; but mostly they are in the right order.

Enclosed small letter from 1971 to Walter Baumert about his artistic work.

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

At the same time I offer handwritten poems and other draft novels by Walter Baumert!

Internal note: Baumert

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About Walter Baumert and Georg Weerth (source: wikipedia):

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

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

He learned bricklaying in preparation for studying architecture, but studied philosophy from 1952 to 1958 and then worked for East German television. He wrote the screenplays and TV play scenarios for 23 films, some of which were multi-part. The continuation of his socio-critical cycle "Café on the main street" was forbidden in 1976. The planned 12-part series about Friedrich Engels' youth was also put on hold for 10 years until it was reduced to four parts and broadcast in the GDR in 1985 and taken over by the FRG in 1989. The production of the two-part television play "The Challenge" was stopped twice until the film was allowed to be broadcast in 1986 in a greatly abridged and toned-down form. The production of the two-part historical television film "The First Year of Liberation" was completely prohibited. Two books by Baumert appeared at the same time in the GDR and in the Federal Republic.

At 16. June 1961 Walter Baumert receives the Literature Prize of the FDGB from Herbert Warnke in Magdeburg (on the left in the picture)

Literature and Art Awards

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

Erich Weinert Medal 1960

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

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

Main prize of the INTERVISION Plovdiv 1981 (collectively).

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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 last sight (according to with Winfried Nonnewitz)

1960: The Avalanche

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

1961: The unknown quantity

1961: If you stand by me

1962: The night on the Autobahn

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

1963: The silver anniversary

1965: Episodes of Happiness, 2 parts

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

1967: For each other, 1. Part: The Constructor 2. Part: The Plant Manager

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

1968: The Black Rider (according to with Armin Müller), 3 parts

1969: The Lawyer (according to with Otto Bonhoff)

1969: Longing for Sabine, from the cycle "Café on the main street"

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

1976: A chance for Manuela, from the cycle "Café on the main street"

1976: Farewell to Gabriela, from the cycle "Café on the main street"

1981: The preliminary investigation

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

1986: The Challenge

George Ludwig Weerth (* 17. February 1822 in Detmold; † 30 July 1856 in Havana, Cuba) was a German writer, satirist, journalist and businessman.

Life: Weerth was born as the son of the pastor and General Superintendent Ferdinand Weerth and the pastor's daughter Wilhelmina Weerth (nee Burgmann) on 17. February 1822 born in Detmold. In 1836 the father suffered several strokes and was therefore no longer able to practice his profession. Weerth therefore left the grammar school in Detmold and began on 16. September 1838 in Elberfeld (today in Wuppertal) at the twist, silk and wool thread dealer JH Brink & Co. a commercial apprenticeship. In his free time, he learned French and English for foreign-language commercial correspondence.

During his apprenticeship, Weerth met Hermann Püttmann (1811–1874), an editor at the liberal Barmer Zeitung, who also worked as a poet and art writer and who introduced Weerth to literature, but also sensitized him to social issues. In 1838 Weerth became friends with Ferdinand Freiligrath, whose "literati circle" he joined in the same year. This circle consisted of 15 people who met regularly in Barmen to discuss literature and to recite poems, some of their own, some of others.

In 1840 Weerth moved to Cologne to work in the administration of the Graf Meinertzhagen lead ore mine, but just two years later, in 1842, he went to Bonn to work in the cotton spinning and weaving mills of Weerth & Peill. The company belonged to a close relative, Friedrich aus'm Weerth. In addition to work, Weerth attended lectures at the University of Bonn. He met the theologian Gottfried Kinkel and the old Germanist Karl Simrock, who organized liberal poets' circles. The two scientists encouraged Weerth to be literary. They met together in the Maikäferbund, a circle of poets. Weerth's first poem Der steinerne Knappe appeared in 1841 in a collection of poems.

In 1843 Weerth moved to Bradford in Yorkshire (northern England) to work for two and a half years as a correspondent for the worsted and woolen company Ph. Passavant & Co to work. The time there left a lasting impression on him and politicized him. Through his doctor friend, John L. MacMichan, who practiced in the working-class districts, he learned about the consequences of industrialization, i.e. the poverty and misery of the workers in the textile factories.

During his time in England, Weerth made the acquaintance of Friedrich Engels and met Karl Marx on a trip to Belgium in the summer of 1845. He joined the communist movement, whose world view is reflected in his poems. The traveling salesman Weerth also worked as a courier for the Communist Correspondence Committee founded by Marx and Engels in 1846 and for the League of Communists. "Weerth, the first and most important poet of the German proletariat," Engels later wrote.

In March 1846, Weerth was offered a position at Emanuel & Son worsted yarn spinning mill in Brussels, which he immediately accepted. At the same time he published a series of articles in the German Brussels newspaper. When he heard of the outbreak of the revolution in France in February/March 1848, he traveled to Paris to witness and take part in it.

In April 1848 he went to Cologne with Engels and Marx to help found the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. At the newspaper managed by Marx, Weerth worked as an editor for Great Britain[2] and Belgium[3] and headed the features section. Here he published 1848-1849 in sequels to his satire on the aristocratic life and deeds of the famous knight Schnapphahnski; Weerth used Prince Felix Lichnowsky as a template for the title character. The name "Schnapphahnski" was a nod to Heine, in whose epic Atta Troll this knight appears briefly twice. When Lichnowsky on 19. September 1848 was murdered - the first chapter was published at the beginning of August - Weerth brought proceedings for "denigration of the deceased". In January 1850 he was found guilty and sentenced to three months imprisonment and disenfranchisement for five years. On the 25th. February 1850 Weerth began his prison sentence in Cologne.

After serving his sentence and disappointed by the failure of the revolution, Weerth published no more literary works. He undertook long trade trips through half of Europe (including Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, France). After the insolvency of his company, Weerth took over on 7. December 1852 the agency of the firm Steinthal & Co. for the West Indies. He moved to the Caribbean island of Saint Thomas and stayed there until June 1855. During this time he traveled to the USA, Mexico, Cuba and Brazil for his company.

on the 15th June 1855 he returned to Southampton; among other things, to propose to his second cousin, Betty Tendering. When she refused, Weerth returned on April 2. December 1855 returned to St. Thomas. In March 1856 he decided to move to Havana, Cuba, and retire there. on the 23rd In July 1856, on a business trip to Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), he fell ill with a fever in Haiti. Although medical attention was given to him immediately, it was not until the 26th that the doctor treating him diagnosed the disease. July meningitis. Since it was already far advanced and due to cerebral malaria, there was no cure for it.

on the 30th Georg Weerth died in Havana on July 18, 1856 at the age of 34. In the district of Cayo Hueso (Calle Aramburu) since 1974 there has been a commemorative plaque commemorating Weerth on a wall, the only remainder of what was then the Espada main cemetery.[4][5] His literary and personal estate is divided into three archives. The most important work manuscripts are in the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Gescheidis in Amsterdam. In 1936 they were sold there in two boxes for 5000 marks. Some of the original manuscripts are in the Marx Engels Institute in Moscow. These had been bought by a private individual interested in literature and politics in the 1920s. In addition to autograph poems and Weerth's personal copy of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, several hundred original letters from the city's great son were purchased and made accessible to the public in the Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold.[6]

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The Hunger Song. 1844.

The poor from the Senne. In: Hermann Püttmann (ed.): German citizen book for 1845.[7] pp. 266-271.

The industry. In: Hermann Püttmann (ed.): German citizen book for 1845. pp. 346-347.

Handyman song. (1846) The Social Democrat No. 24 from 7. June 1883. based on Marx-Engels-Werke Volume 21, pp. 5-8.

Craft Boy Songs. In: Hermann Püttmann (ed.): Album. original poetry. Reiche, Borna 1847, p. 6 ff. digitized

La Liberté du commerce considered du point de vue prolétaire par MG Weerth et Les protectionnistes, les libres échangistes et la classe ouvrière by M. Karl Marx. CG Vogler, Brussels 1847.

Life and deeds of the famous knight Schnapphahnski. Hoffmann and Campe Hamburg, 1848 ÖNB digital copy, digital copy and full text in the German Text Archive

Illustrated edition August Stritt, Frankfurt am Main 1848 Digital collections of the Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold