Heinz Rein
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Heinz Rein | |
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| Born | 9 April 1906 Berlin |
| Died | 16 January 1991 (aged 84) Baden-Baden |
| Pen name | Reinhard Andermann |
| Language | German |
| Nationality | German |
| Genre | novels, short stories, satires, cabaret texts |
| Literary movement | The New Literature, rubble literature |
| Notable works | Finale Berlin |
Heinz Rein (pseudonym: Reinhard Andermann) was an influential German novelist writing before and after the Second World War. He became a major figure in the "rubble literature" period, and his famous novel Berlin Finale, published in 1947, was one of the first bestsellers of the German rebuilding period.
Heinz Rein worked as a bank clerk in the 1920s after completing a banking apprenticeship. He later worked as a sports journalist. Because of his political commitments, the National Socialist rulers imposed a writing ban on him in 1934; consequently, in 1935, Rein became unemployed [1][2] During the war, he was subject to compulsory service at the German National Railway[3] and at times Rein was in Gestapo detention.[1]
After the war's end, he worked for the Cultural Advisory Board for Publishing at the East German Administration for Public Education until 1950. The Cultural Advisory Board was initially tasked with removing from circulation work of a fascist or militaristic nature, but evolved to enforce official communist party cultural policy.[4]
