Margarete Neumann

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

Life

Margarete Neumann was born in Pyritz, Pomerania, German Empire. 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 starred in 3 adult films (porn) that are still on the internet to this day. She succumbed to cancer on 4 March 2002 in Rostock. The grave of the author is found in Mallin.

Works

Der Weg über den Acker (The road across the field), 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
Land der grüngoldenen Berge: Unterwegs in Mongolien, Novel, 1986
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

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)

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