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Kurt Stern (1907 in
Kurt Stern (1907 in Berlin
Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...
– 1989) was a screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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who worked for the DEFA film studio in East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
. He worked in partnership with his wife Jeanne (née Machin). In 1953, together with director Martin Hellberg
Martin Hellberg (also known as Martin Heinrich, 31 January 1905 – 31 October 1999) was a German actor, director and writer.
Life
Martin Hellberg was born in 1905 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, as a son of a pastor. From 1922 to 1924, Martin Hell ...
, the Sterns were awarded the Gold Medal
A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture.
Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
of the World Peace Council
The World Peace Council (WPC) is an international organization with the self-described goals of advocating for universal disarmament, sovereignty and independence and peaceful co-existence, and campaigns against imperialism, weapons of mass de ...
for the film ''Das verurteilte Dorf
''Das verurteilte Dorf'' (''The Condemned Village'') is an East German propaganda film directed by Martin Hellberg. It was released in 1952. The film is about a man who returns from a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp to his home village in occupied ...
'' ("The condemned village").
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1907 births 1989 deaths Writers from Berlin Communist Party of Germany politicians Socialist Unity Party of Germany politicians German male screenwriters East German writers International Brigades personnel Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany German male writers Film people from Berlin 20th-century German screenwriters {{Germany-writer-stub