Margarete Neumann

Margarete Neumann (February 19, 1917, died March 4, 2002) was a German writer and lyrical poet.

Life

Margarete Neumann was born in Pyritz, Pomerania. She studied at the social educational seminar in Königsberg and worked until 1945 as a welfare worker in Heilsberg. After being expelled from Poland to Germany in 1945, she was a farmer in Mecklenburg and a welder in Halle (Saale). Since 1952 she lived as a free lance writer in Hohen Neuendorf then in Neubrandenburg after 1961. She was allowed as a partisanship writer and advocate of socialist realism in East Germany.

After the Wende, Neumann lived in Sousse, Tunisia from 1991 to 2001. She succumbed to cancer on March 4, 2002 in Rostock. The grave of the author is found in Mallin.

Works

• Der Weg über den Acker (The way over the Acker), Novel, 1955
• Lene Bastians Geschichte (Lene Bastian's History), Novellas, 1956
• Der lange Weg (The Long Way), Narrative, 1958
• Brot auf hölzerner Schale (Bread from the Wooden Bowl), Poems, 1959
• Elisabeth, Narrative, 1960
• Rumpelstilzchen, Radio play, 1960
• Das Aprikosenbäumchen (The Little Apricot Tree), Children's Book, 1960
• Der Wunderbaum (The Wonder Tree), Children's Book, 1960
• Der Spiegel (The Mirror), Narrative, 1962
• Der Totengräber (The Dead Graves), Novel, 1963
• ... und sie liebten sich doch (.. and they loved themselves nevertheless), Novel, 1966
• Die Liebenden (The Beloved), Novel, 1970
• Der grüne Salon (The Green Salon), Novel, 1972
• Magda Adomeit, Novel, 1985
• Dies ist mein Leben ... (This is my Life ...), Narrative cycle, 1987
• Nach einem sehr langen Winter (After a very long Winter). Selected Stories 1956-1987, Aufbau Verlag 1989
• Der Geistkämpfer. 2 Novellen um Barlach (The Ghost Fighter. 2 Novellas about Barlach), Aufbau Verlag 1990
• Da Abend und Morgen einander berühren Die Webers und die Adomeits (The Webers and the Adomeits affect each other that evening and morning). Novel, Aufbau Verlag 1990

Prizes

• 1957 Heinrich Mann Prize
• 1962 Fritz Reuter Prize

References

This article incorporates information from the revision as of July 19th, 2008 of the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.

External links

• Literature by and on Margarete Neumann in the catalog of the German National Library (German)
• Literature about Margarete Neumann in the Landesbibliographie Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (German)