Gerlind Reinshagen
Gerlind Reinshagen (born May 4, 1926) is a German writer.[1]
The daughter of Ekkehard and Friedel Technau, she was born in Konigsberg and studied pharmacy[1] and art. She wrote children's books,[2]novels, poetry[3] and radio plays before writing her first play for the theatre Doppelkopf in 1967.[2] Her plays Himmel und Erde (Heaven and Earth) (1974) and Sonntagskinder (Sunday's children) (1976) were also produced as films.[3] Most of her plays were directed by the influential director Claus Peymann.[4]
She received a Schiller Memorial Prize in 1974, the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 1977, the Andreas Gryphius Prize in 1982, the Roswitha Prize in 1988,[3] the Roswitha Prize in 1988, the Ludwig Mülheims Preis in 1993 and the Niedersächsischer Staatspreis in 1999.[1]
Selected works[3][2]
- Leben und Tod der Marilyn Monroe (Life and death of Marilyn Monroe), play (1971)
- Eisenherz, play (1982)
- Die flüchtige Braut, novel (1993)
- Die Clownin, play (1985)
- Jäger am Rand der Nacht, novel (1993)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sleeman, Elizabeth (2001). The International Who's Who of Women 2002. p. 473. ISBN 1857431227.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Furness, Raymond; Humble, Malcolm (2003). A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature. pp. 243–44. ISBN 1134747640.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eigler, Friederike Ursula; Kord, Susanne (1997). The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature. pp. 442–44. ISBN 0313293139.
- ↑ Sieg, Katrin (1994). Exiles, Eccentrics, Activists: Women in Contemporary German Theater. University of Michigan Press. pp. 121–. ISBN 0472104918.