Willi Bredel

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East German stamp from 1971 depicting Willi Bredel
East German stamp from 1971 depicting Willi Bredel

Willi Bredel (May 2, 1901 – October 27, 1964) was a German writer and president of the Akademie der Künste. Born in Hamburg, he was a pioneer of socialist realist literature.

Soon after the Nazis seized power in 1933, Bredel was imprisoned at KZ Fuhlsbüttel, a concentration camp. After fleeing from Nazi Germany to Czechoslovakia and Moscow, he published Die Prüfung (1934), a novel describing the Nazi concentration camp which was read in many languages.

Bredel took part in the Spanish Civil War, as well as the Second World War, in which he fought on the Soviet side. After the war he lived in East Germany. He died in Berlin.

[edit] Selected Works

  • Die Prüfung
  • The Death of General Moreau and other stories
  • "Verwandte und Bekannte" Trilogy

[edit] Links

Willi Bredel Gesellschaft (German)

Languages