Anna Elisabet Weirauch
Anna Elisabet Weirauch (7 August 1887, Galaţi — 21 December 1970, West Berlin) was a German author.
Biography
Anna Elisabet Weirauch lived in Romania with her German mother, who was a writer, and her father, the founder and director of the Bank of Romania until he died.[1] She moved to Thuringia with her mother, and by 1893 they moved again to Berlin.[1] In the capital, Weirauch went to a private school to learn how to act.[1] For a decade starting 1904, she worked at Berlin's German State Theatre,[1] where she was directed by Max Reinhardt.[2]
She started writing plays but later moved to novels.[1] In 1933 she moved to Gastag, Upper Bavaria,[1] where she lived with her life partner.[2] After the Second World War, she moved to Munich and later returned to Berlin,[2] one year before she died.[1]
Bibliography
- Little Dagmar (1918)
- The Day of Artemis (1919)
- Ruth Meyer: Almost an Everyday Story (1922)
- Lotte: A Berlin Novel (1932)
- The Scorpion (1932)
- The Outcast (1933)
- Manuela, the Enigma (1939)
- Mara Holm's Marriage (1949)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Robert Aldrich, Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History, Routledge, 2000, pages 476-477
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nancy P. Nenno, 'Anna Elisabet Weirauch's Der Skorpion', Queering the Canon: Defying Sights in German Literature and Culture, ed. Christoph Lorey and John Plews, Camden House, 1998, page 208
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