 Stephan Hermlin

Stephan Hermlin (; 13 April 1915 – 6 April 1997), real name "Rudolf Leder," was a German author.He wrote, among other things, stories, essays, translations, and lyric poetry and was one of the more well-known authors of former East Germany.Hermlin was born in 1915 in Chemnitz, Germany, in what is now the Federal State of Saxony, the son of Jewish immigrant and art collector David Leder and his wife Lola, he grew both in Chemnitz and in Berlin.