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Helmut Flieg (April 10, 1913 - December 16, 2001) was a German-Jewish writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym. He lived in the United States (or served in its army abroad) between 1935 and 1952, before moving back to the part of his native Germany which was, from 1949–1990, German Democratic Republic (GDR, "East Germany"). He published works in English and German at home and abroad, and despite longstanding criticism of the GDR remained a committed socialist.
Helmut Flieg, born to a Jewish merchant family in Chemnitz, was an antifascist from an early age. In 1931 he was, at the instigation of local Nazis, expelled from the Gymnasium in his home town because of an anti-military poem. He completed school in Berlin, and began a degree in media studies there. After the 1933 Reichstag fire he fled to Czechoslovakia, where he took the name Stefan Heym. In Czechoslovakia, the only remaining democracy in Central Europe at that time, he worked for German newspapers published in Prague such as Prager Tagblatt and Deutsche Zeitung Bohemia and also managed to have some of his articles published in translation by Czech newspapers. During this time he signed his articles under several pseudonyms, Melchior Douglas, Gregor Holm and Stefan Heym.
Stefan Heym (parteilos!) - Eröffnungsrede des 13. Bundestages
Stefan Heym, PDS: Die Menschheit kann nur in Solidarität überleben
Stefan Heym zum 100ten
Rede von Stefan Heym auf der Großdemonstration am 4. November 1989 auf der Alexanderplatz in Berlin
Stefan Heym - Einer, der nie geschwiegen, Schwierigkeiten gemacht und bekommen hat
Stefan Heym - ein Porträt
«Einer, der nie schwieg» -- Szenische Lesung zu Stefan Heym
Große Geschichten 34 - Stefan Heym
Abends am Stefan Heym Platz
Verleihung des Internationalen Stefan-Heym-Preises 2013