title: Horst Deichfuß
text: # Horst Deichfuß
  
  Horst Deichfuß (11 April 1925 – 6 October 1989) was a German writer.
  
  ## Life
  
  Born in Halberstadt, In 1943 Deichfuß was drafted for military service and in 1945/46 was a US-American or British prisoner of war.
  
  After his return from captivity in 1947 he passed the Abitur. He then worked as a mailman for the Deutsche Post der DDR. In 1948 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. In 1955 he founded a cultural group at the Deutsche Post in Halle. In 1961 he completed a correspondence course in postal economics at the engineering school "Rosa Luxemburg" in Leipzig.
  
  From 1963 to 1965 Deichfuß studied at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. In 1965/66 he was a lecturer for theatre and literature at the Halle City Council. From 1966 to 1969 he was the district secretary of the Writers' Association Halle. From 1967 to 1972 he headed a Zirkel Schreibender Arbeiter [de]. From 1969 he was active as a freelance author.
  
  Deichfuß died in Halle after a short severe illness at the age of 64.
  
  ## Work
  
  * Serpentinen (novel). Mitteldeutscher Verlag [de], Halle (Saale) 1962.
  * Anna Mater. Drei Frauenschicksale (tales). List, Leipzig 1971.
  * Die Nagelprobe (novel). List, Leipzig 1974.
  * Wiederaufnahme (novel). List, Leipzig 1977
  * Windmacher (novel). List, Leipzig 1983.
  * Rumänische Rhapsodie. Literarische Skizzen. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1987.
  