Biographies - Buchenwald Memorial

You can see a model standing on a table. It consists of miniatures of real buildings arranged around an open space. Within this area, miniatures of trees and parks can be recognised.

Siegfried Tschierschky Architect

Born in 1898 in Agropoli, Italy, Siegfried Tschierschky took part in the First World War, was wounded and interned. During the interwar years, the trained carpenter struggled to make ends meet. As a student at the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für freie und...

Zentralbild Gielow 13.7.1953 Soviet art scholars arrive in Berlin A delegation of Soviet art scholars arrived in Berlin on 10 July 1953 to prepare for a Soviet art exhibition. UBz: (centre) Ms Valentina Akhalimova, research associate and senior assistant at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, will be the director of the exhibition. The delegation also includes the well-known artist and art historian Alexander Samoshkin, Director of the Institute of Theory and History of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the RSFSR (left). The delegation was warmly welcomed at Schönefeld Airport by National Prize Laureate Prof. Otto Nagel (right) and National Prize Laureate Prof. Walter Arnold (2nd from left).

Walter Arnold Artist

Born in Leipzig in 1909, the son of a stonemason, Walter Arnold trained as a wood and stone sculptor from 1924 to 1928, before studying at the Leipzig School of Arts and Crafts. He worked as a freelance artist during the Nazi dictatorship, followed by...

Zentralbild Franke 4.11.1966 Berlin: Abschluß der 1. Jahreskonferenz des Deutschen Schriftstellerverbandes. Mit herzlichem Beifall dankten die über 350 Teilnehmer an der 1. Jahrekonferenz der Deutschen Schriftstellerkonferenz (im Vordergrund links Prof. Alfred Kurella, daneben Max Zimmering) den Diskussionsrednern, die in der Kongreßhalle am Berliner Alexanderplatz das Wort ergriffen. Vom 2. bis 4.11.1966 hatten die Delegierten und Gäste - Schriftsteller, junge Autoren, schreibende Arbeiter, Literaturwissenschaftler und Bibliothekare - über die Entwicklung der sozialistischen deutschen Nationalliteratur und die Stellung des Schriftstellers in der Gesellschaft beraten.

Max Zimmering Writer

Born in Pirna in 1909 to a Jewish family from Galicia, Max Zimmering joined the moderate Zionist youth movement at an early age, eventually joining the Communist Youth Organisation as a young adult and the KPD in 1929. Even before his apprenticeship as...