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[2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sleeman, Elizabeth (2001). The International Who's Who of Women 2002. p. 473. ISBN 1857431227.
  2. 1 2 3 Furness, Raymond; Humble, Malcolm (2003). A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature. pp. 243–44. ISBN 1134747640.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Eigler, Friederike Ursula; Kord, Susanne (1997). The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature. pp. 442–44. ISBN 0313293139.
  4. ↑ Sieg, Katrin (1994). Exiles, Eccentrics, Activists: Women in Contemporary German Theater. University of Michigan Press. pp. 121–. ISBN 0472104918.

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