German Writers' Union should not be confused with Verband deutscher Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller.
| German Writers' Union | |
| Location Country: | East Germany |
| Language: | German |
| Native Name: | Deutscher Schriftstellerverband |
| Founded: | 1950 |
| Dissolved: | 1990 |
| Predecessor: | National Association of German Writers (Reichsverband deutscher Schriftsteller) |
| Purpose: | Represent German writers in the Volkshammer |
| Headquarters: | East Berlin |
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).
The association considered itself an heir to the earlier traditions of the SDS ("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.