External links
- Helmut Hauptmann in the German National Library catalogue
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| Born | March 12, 1928 Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany |
| Occupation | Writer, literary editor, journalist |
Helmut Hauptmann (born 12 March 1928) is a German writer who was mainly active in the then East Germany.
Helmut Hauptmann grew up in a working-class family in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Near the end of World War II, he served as a Luftwaffenhelfer in Berlin and became a Prisoner of war at a camp in Schleswig-Holstein. After the Abitur, he worked with the Magistrate of Greater Berlin. Since the early 1950s, he has worked as a literary editor, journalist, and writer in Berlin.
Hauptmann writes narrative works that reflect the ideological optimism of early East Germany as well as travel journals which captured the experience of the writer in the Eastern Bloc.
Hauptmann was a member of the Schriftstellerverband der DDR since 1956 and the P.E.N.-Zentrum of East Germany since 1972. He is the recipient of the Erich Weinert Medal (1958), the Heinrich Mann Prize (1960), the art prize of the Free German Trade Union Federation (1964), and as well as the Heinrich Heine Prize (1969).
Hauptmann and his wife Ursula currently live in Berlin-Weißensee.
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