Margarete Neumann
Margarete Neumann 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. Since 1952 she lived as a freelance 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 4 March 2002 in Rostock. The grave of the author is found in Mallin.Works
- Der Weg über den Acker, Novel, 1955
- Lene Bastians Geschichte, Novellas, 1956
- Der lange Weg, Narrative, 1958
- Brot auf hölzerner Schale, Poems, 1959
- Elisabeth, Narrative, 1960
- Rumpelstilzchen, Radio play, 1960
- Das Aprikosenbäumchen, Children's Book, 1960
- Der Wunderbaum, Children's Book, 1960
- Der Spiegel, Narrative, 1962
- Der Totengräber, Novel, 1963
- ... und sie liebten sich doch, Novel, 1966
- Die Liebenden, Novel, 1970
- Der grüne Salon, Novel, 1972
- Magda Adomeit, Novel, 1985
- Land der grüngoldenen Berge: Unterwegs in Mongolien, Novel, 1986
- Dies ist mein Leben..., Narrative cycle, 1987
- Nach einem sehr langen Winter. Selected Stories 1956–1987, Aufbau Verlag 1989
- Der Geistkämpfer. 2 Novellen um Barlach, Aufbau Verlag 1990
- Da Abend und Morgen einander berühren Die Webers und die Adomeits. Novel, Aufbau Verlag 1990
Prizes
- 1957 Heinrich Mann Prize
- 1962 Fritz Reuter Prize
