Horst Enders

Horst Enders was an educated engineer when he entered 1940 the german army to fight in World War II. He was captured and released in 1947. In 1951 he became an textile engineer and started studying literature while working as an teacher. After working for the Rostock theatre in 1959 he was hired as an writer for the east german television in 1963. He was married to the opera singer Margarete Herzberg and had one son, Torsten Enders , who later studied theatre at the Humboldt University in Berlin and produced radio dramas. To avoid the family names, Enders wrote under the pen name Mark Herzberg. Herzberg was the family name of this beloved wife.