1934-1976 DE, Chemnitz
Werner Bräunig (May 12, 1934 - August 14, 1976) was a German author. He is best known for his posthumously published novel Rummelplatz (German for "Fairground").The novel was to be part of a Communist Party campaign to establish a new kind of working class literature by encouraging talented labourers to write fiction on their everyday life. Bräunig started work on his only novel Rummelplatz in 1960-1961. The novel deals with work in the Soviet owned uranium mines of the Wismut AG and covers the time span from the foundation of the GDR in 1949 to the uprising in East Germany on June 17, 1953.Though the novel clearly shows his author's conviction the Capitalism always ends up in Fascism and therefore Communism is the only chance for "Nature's greatest experiment mankind", the preprinted chap