The German Writers' Union (German, "Deutscher Schriftstellerverband") was an East German association of writers. It was founded in 1950 and renamed in 1973 as Schriftstellerverband der DDR (Writers' Association of the GDR).

German Writers' Union
Deutscher Schriftstellerverband
PredecessorNational Association of German Writers (Reichsverband deutscher Schriftsteller)
Founded1950
Dissolved1990
PurposeRepresent German writers in the Volkshammer
HeadquartersEast Berlin
Location
Official language
German
The First Secretary of the German Writers' Union, Gerhard Henniger and the president of the Association of Writers of Yugoslavia, Aco Šopov signing the cooperation agreement on February 12, 1970, in East Berlin

The association considered itself an heir to the earlier traditions of the SDS (Schutzverband deutscher Schriftsteller [de], "Protection League of German Writers") which had flourished in the 1920s but then, after 1933, been forced into line under the Hitler dictatorship and, in July 1933, found itself subsumed into the "National Association of German Writers" (Reichsverband deutscher Schriftsteller), a Nazi mandated successor organisation between 1933 and 1945.

The DSV archives are now in the Academy of Arts Berlin.

Presidents

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See also

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  • "Die Lösung", which mentions the Schriftstellerverband