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- Ulrich Zieger was born on 29 December 1961 in Döbeln, Saxony, Germany. He was a writer, known for Faraway, So Close! (1993). He died on 23 July 2015 in Montpellier, Hérault, France.
- Stefan Saborowski was born on 13 October 1960 in Döbeln, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for Verflixtes Mißgeschick! (1989), Rund um die Uhr (1986) and Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort (1965).
- Karlheinz Liefers was born on 6 August 1941 in Döbeln, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Small White Mouse (1964), Das Tal der sieben Monde (1967) and Lützower (1972). He was married to Brigitte Wähner. He died on 21 January 2006 in Berlin, Germany.
- Heckel met the future painter Karl Schmidt-Rottluff at school and became friends with him. From 1904 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden. There he made the acquaintance of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl. Heckel dropped out of his studies and then worked as a draftsman and construction supervisor in 1905. In the same year, 1905, he founded the artists' association "Die Brücke" with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Its members rejected the established art forms and looked for a new form of artistic expression. In 1906 he met Max Pechstein at the Third Decorative Arts Exhibition, who became a member of the "Brücke". He gave up his work as a draftsman. From 1907, Erich Heckel worked as a freelance artist who dedicated himself to painting and graphics. In 1910 he was in Berlin and met the painter Otto Müller. He became a member of "The Bridge". The following year he moved to Berlin with the other members of the "Brücke". Heckel took over Otto Müller's studio there. In his motifs he turned to life in the big city and circus life.
In 1912 he met the American painter Lyonel Feininger as well as Franz Marc and August Macke from the "Blauer Reiter" group. During this time he adopted ideas from Cubism and the works of Robert Delaunay, which were reflected in the subdued, colorful style of his pictures. In 1912, the artists' association "Die Brücke" took part in the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne, after which it dissolved in 1913. The following year, Erich Heckel exhibited his pictures at the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne. In 1915 he married the dancer Sida Riha. From 1915 to 1918, Heckel took part in the First World War as a volunteer. He became a paramedic in Flanders. There he met Max Beckmann. Heckel processed his impressions of the war in woodcuts and lithographs such as the titles "Wounded Sailor" (1915) and "Madonna of Ostend" (1915). His repertoire expanded from previous landscape painting to include depictions of people in social and physical situations of misery.
After the war, the artist went back to Berlin in 1918 and took part in the "November Group" exhibition. During this time he became a member of the "Working Council for Art", in which the academic approach to art was rejected. From 1920 onwards, Erich Heckel traveled extensively throughout Europe. He processed his travel impressions into poetic images with bright colors that reveal a special understanding of nature. In 1937, Heckel's works were classified as "degenerate" by the National Socialists, the artist was defamed and banned from exhibitions. The Nazi regime confiscated a total of 729 works from public museums. At this time, Erich Heckel went to his workshop on the Flensburg Fjord and placed his artistic focus on watercolor painting. This technique became more important to him; it went beyond the significance of a study as a full-fledged painting technique. From 1940 to 1942 he stayed in Carinthia often. Not only his studio, but also many of his works fell victim to a bomb attack in Berlin in 1944.
This year Heckel moved to Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance. He lived there as neighbors with the painter Otto Dix. From 1949 to 1955 he taught as a professor, alongside Walter Becker, at the Karlsruhe University of Fine Arts. Heckels preferred scenes from the circus world, but he also painted landscapes, portraits and nudes. Vincent van Gogh and the Paris Fauvists were his role models when it came to choosing colors. His pictures shone with unmixed colors. When he moved to Berlin in 1911, his style also changed. He emphasized the geometric style of painting with harder contours and a subdued color scheme. His constant search for his own style was accompanied by a further style variation when the Brücke group disbanded in 1913. Heckel's pictures from this era radiate more calm. In addition to his paintings, he created numerous woodcuts, lithographs and drawings.
Erich Heckel died on January 27, 1970 in Radolfzell on Lake Constance. - Writer
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Rainer Kirsch was born on 17 July 1934 in Döbeln, Saxony, Germany. He was a writer, known for Der Prinz hinter den sieben Meeren (1982), Der Stein des Glücks (1977) and Karli Kippe (1962). He was married to Ingrid Hella Irmelinde Bernstein. He died on 4 September 2015 in Berlin, Germany.- Rolf Wollrad was born on 6 February 1938 in Döbeln, Germany. He was an actor, known for Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of Tsar Saltan (1978). He died on 9 February 2022 in Saxony, Germany.