# Herbert Jobst

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**Herbert Jobst** (July 30, 1915 – June 28, 1990) was a German writer.

## Life

Herbert Jobst was the son of a miner from Neu-[Welzow](/source/Welzow), [Lusatia](/source/Lusatia) who died in [World War I](/source/World_War_I). As a small child, he would be abandoned by his mother in [Radeberg](/source/Radeberg) and spend his youth in homes and with different [foster parents](/source/Foster_care). After his attendance of the [Volksschule](/source/Volksschule), he completed training as a [printer](/source/Printer_(publisher)) in [Meissen](/source/Meissen). In the following years, he became a member of the [Sozialistische Arbeiter-Jugend](/source/Sozialistische_Arbeiter-Jugend) (Socialist Worker Youth) the *Roten Falken* (Red Falcons) and *Naturfreunde* (Nature Friends). He would be drafted to the [labour service](/source/Labour_service_(Hungary)) for the "Nazi Re-education". In 1934, Jobst went to [Austria](/source/Austria), Italy and [Yugoslavia](/source/Yugoslavia), where he led the life of a vagabond and he survived by begging, provisional money of the printers guild and casual work for water. The Austrian authorities [deported](/source/Deportation) him into the [German Reich](/source/German_Reich) in 1937 where he would be drafted into the [Wehrmacht](/source/Wehrmacht) however because of the *[Wehrkraftzersetzung](/source/Wehrkraftzersetzung)* (subversion of military strength) he was quickly sent to the Military Prison Torgau. With the breakout of [World War II](/source/World_War_II), he received casual work at the so-called *Frontbewährung* (Front Probation). Jobst participated as a soldier of the Wehrmacht at the [Eastern Front](/source/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)) and would be imprisoned in [Heiligenbeil](/source/Mamonovo), [East Prussia](/source/East_Prussia) as a Soviet [prisoner of war](/source/Prisoner_of_war). Until 1947, he worked in Tscheljabinsk, [Siberia](/source/Siberia) in the Camp 8 coal mine. He returned to Germany in 1947, starting as a night watchman in [Dresden](/source/Dresden). From 1948 to 1956 he worked for Wismut-AG beginning as a [miner](/source/Miner) and extraction man. Since he completed a study at the [Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg](/source/Technische_Universit%C3%A4t_Bergakademie_Freiberg) in 1952/53, he was promoted to climber. After his first writing attempt, he would become a member of the [Arbeitsgemeinschaft Junger Autoren](/source/Arbeitsgemeinschaft_Junger_Autoren). In 1957 he moved to [Flöha](/source/Fl%C3%B6ha), Saxony making a living as a writer and then lived [Neustrelitz](/source/Neustrelitz) from 1967 until his death in 1990. He would marry lyrical poet [Lisa Jobst](/source/Lisa_Jobst).

Herbert Jobst was a writer of novels, narratives and screenplays. His best known work was the much read in East Germany, being the powerful autobiographical colored [Novel Tetralogy](/source/Tetralogy) *Der dramatische Lebensweg des Adam Probst* (The Dramatic Way of Life of Adam Probst). In them, the author tells the life story of a social outcast who endures [Simplicius Simplicissimus](/source/Simplicius_Simplicissimus) thing, above all in the group *Der Vagabund*, in a popular, humor filled to satirical tone.

Herbert Jobst received the 1958 [Heinrich Mann Prize](/source/Heinrich_Mann_Prize) and the 1965 [Kunstpreis des Bezirkes Karl-Marx-Stadt](/source/Kunstpreis_des_Bezirkes_Karl-Marx-Stadt) in addition to the [Free German Trade Union Federation](/source/Free_German_Trade_Union_Federation) Prize and [Fritz Reuter Prize](/source/Fritz_Reuter_Prize) the same year.

## Works

- *Der Findling*, Berlin 1957
- *Der Zögling*, Berlin 1959
- *Der Vagabund*, Berlin 1963
- *Blick auf Irdisches*, Rostock 1969 (together with Klaus Beuchler and Egon Richter)
- *Der Glücksucher*, Berlin 1973
- *Tapetenwechsel*, Berlin 1983

## Literature

- Anita Heiden-Berndt (Editor): *Herbert Jobst*, Neubrandenburg 1981
- Stephan Gruner: *Im Streit um die Geschichte*, Berlin 1989

## External links

- [Lisa Jobst und Herbert Jobst: Vom Bergman zum Schriftsteller (From Miner to Writer)](http://www.jobst-pistorius.de/41385/home.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20150429002749/http://www.jobst-pistorius.de/41385/home.html) April 29, 2015 at the Wayback Machine

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