Gustav Just

Gustav Just (16 June 1921 – 23 February 2011)[1] was First Secretary of the German Writers' Association (DSV) (German: Deutscher Schriftstellerverband) and editor-in-chief of the East German weekly Sonntag until 1957, when he was sentenced to four years imprisonment after a show trial in which he was accused of having engaged in anti-constitutional activities ("inciting to boycott") along with Walter Janka, Heinz Zöger, and Richard Wolf. He was born in Reinowitz, Bohemia.

Gustav Just
1954 meeting of German and Soviet writers and scientists
Born(1921-06-16)16 June 1921
Died23 February 2011(2011-02-23) (aged 89)
NationalityGerman
OccupationJournalist

After his release he became a prolific translator of primarily Czech but also Slovak works into German and was "rehabilitated" in 1990.

He served in the Brandenburg State Parliament (as its Alterspräsident, or "chairman by seniority") in the newly unified Germany until he was forced to resign in 1992 following allegations of having participated in wartime atrocities on the Eastern Front during World War II.

In 1998 he received the Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung.

Publications

References

  1. Alterspräsident des Brandenburger Landtages verstorben Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Märkische Oderzeitung, 23 February 2011 (German).
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