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Horst Salomon (6 May 1929 - 20 June 1972) was a German novelist and screenwriter. His successful career in the German Democratic Republic was cut short by his early death. Salomon was regarded as a regime loyalist. ==Life== Horst Salomon was born in Pillkallen, then a small market town in East Prussia still recovering from the destruction of the First World War. His father was an agricultural worker. He nevertheless attended the Gymnasium (school) in Allenstein.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Horst Salomon )〕 When the war ended in May 1945, Salomon, by now aged 16, was one of the millions required to relocate, and he ended up in Thüringia, by now in the Soviet occupation zone, and which in October 1949 would become part of the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic. He became active in the no longer illegal local Anti-Fascist committee, later becoming active in the newly recreated Free German Youth. In 1951 he started working at the important Wismut Uranium mines. He worked underground for 4½ years as a hewer. He was able to attend evening classes at the Mining School which enabled him to gain promotion, becoming a foreman and supervisor.〔: ''Nachwort''. In: Horst Salomon: ''Getrommelt, geträumt und gepfiffen''. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1960. p. 107–109〕 He was a member of the Mine rescue service, and in July 1955 a member of the rescue team at the worst mining accident in the history of uranium mining at "Shaft 250" in Niederschlema.〔 At the same time, being a trusted party member, he worked as a "political inspector",〔 which involved ensuring compliance with the party line. His poem "Genosse Walter Ulbricht" (''"Comrade Walter Ulbricht"''), which eulogised the country's leader and provided justification for what others saw as the gratuitously savage repression of the 1953 uprising, appeared in its original form in 1955. It received wide coverage within East Germany.〔: ''Walter Ulbricht. Eine deutsche Biografie''. Siedler, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-88680-720-7. p. 9.〕 Praising the leader in print became an important part of Salomon's contribution. He also worked as an Informal collaborator (informer) for the Ministry for State Security from 1955, under the cover names "Ursel" and "Petrus".〔Baldur Haase: ''Auch für kleine Fische zu haben. In die Akten von »Petrus« geschaut (Horst Salomon )''. In: ''Gerbergasse 18. Forum für Geschichte und Kultur''. ISSN: 1431-1607. Jg. 5 (2000), Nr. 18, S. 12–15.〕〔Thüringer Landeszeitung, Ausgabe Gera, vom 27. März 2002.〕 In 1958 he was sent to the „Johannes R. Becher“ Literature Institute (as it was then known) in Leipzig, where he was one of several of the country's more promising youthful writers to be mentored by Dr.Erna Barnick. He returned to Wismut in 1961, although his role within the mining enterprise was now cultural and political. From 1965 he lived in Gera and supported himself as a journalist and freelance author. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Horst Salomon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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