Herbert Nachbar

Nachbar began a study of Medicine at the Humboldt University of Berlin which he broke off after two semesters.

From 1968, he was head dramaturg at the Volkstheater in Rostock and later at the East German Television in Berlin.

His death in East Berlin was the result of a difficult disease which had forced him to become a wheelchair user since 1978.

In his novels, he depicts the life of a fishing village on the Baltic Sea coast.

Some of his later works had been shaped by sagas of the Baltic area and Scandinavia and bear fantasy and romance features.