Horst Deichfuß

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Horst Deichfuß (11 April 1925 – 6 October 1989) was a German writer.

Born in Halberstadt, In 1943 Deichfuß was drafted for military service and in 1945/46 was a US-American or British prisoner of war.

After his return from captivity in 1947 he passed the Abitur. He then worked as a mailman for the Deutsche Post der DDR. In 1948 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.^[1] In 1955 he founded a cultural group at the Deutsche Post in Halle. In 1961 he completed a correspondence course in postal economics at the engineering school "Rosa Luxemburg" in Leipzig.

From 1963 to 1965 Deichfuß studied at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. In 1965/66 he was a lecturer for theatre and literature at the Halle City Council. From 1966 to 1969 he was the district secretary of the Writers' Association Halle. From 1967 to 1972 he headed a Zirkel Schreibender Arbeiter [de]. From 1969 he was active as a freelance author.

Deichfuß died in Halle after a short severe illness at the age of 64.^[2]

• Serpentinen (novel).^[3] Mitteldeutscher Verlag [de], Halle (Saale) 1962.
• Anna Mater. Drei Frauenschicksale^[4] (tales). List, Leipzig 1971.
• Die Nagelprobe (novel). List, Leipzig 1974.
• Wiederaufnahme^[5] (novel). List, Leipzig 1977
• Windmacher (novel). List, Leipzig 1983.
• Rumänische Rhapsodie. Literarische Skizzen.^[6] Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1987.

• Kurt Böttcher (editor): Meyers Taschenlexikon. Schriftsteller der DDR. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1974, p. 111.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (editor): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ/DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth – Lyr. K. G. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2, p. 115.
• Wilhelm Kosch et al. (editors): Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Band 6: Deeg – Dürrenfeld. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-908255-06-6, Sp. 25f.
• Rüdiger Bernhardt: Schreibende Arbeiter der DDR zwischen Arbeiter- und Gesellschaftskultur. In Dominique Herbet (editor): Culture ouvrière. Arbeiterkultur. Mutations d’une réalité complexe en Allemagne du XIXe au XXIe siècle. Presses universitaires du Septentrion, Villeneuve-d’Ascq 2011, ISBN 978-2-7574-0210-8, p. 117–150 (zu Deichfuß, S. 125f.)

• Literature by and about Horst Deichfuß in the German National Library catalogue
• Portrait