Hedda Zinner

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Hedda Zinner, 1948

Hedda Zinner (born May 20, 1905 or 1907 in Lemberg , Galicia or Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † July 4, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German writer , actress , cabaret artist , reciter , journalist , director and radio director .

Life

Hedda Zinner (center), 1966

Hedda Zinner, who published under her maiden name and various pseudonyms (Elisabeth Frank, Hannchen Lobesam, Hedda), was born in Lemberg as the daughter of a civil servant. She attended the drama academy there from 1923 to 1925. Engagements took her to Stuttgart , Baden-Baden , Breslau and Zwickau . In 1928 she married the writer and journalist Fritz Erpenbeck . From 1929 she lived in Berlin, became a member of the KPD , worked as a writer and reciter. She read her own poems at political rallies .

From 1930 she published political-satirical and socially critical poems a. a. in the Rote Fahne , the workers' voice , in the AIZ , in the way of the woman , the magazine for all and the world in the evening . In 1933 she emigrated first to Vienna and then to Prague , where she founded and directed the political cabaret “Studio 1934”; from 1935 she lived with her husband in Moscow in the Soviet Union . She worked as a radio play author and commentator for Radio Moscow and for various literary magazines.

tomb

In 1945 she returned to Berlin, where she lived in the eastern part of Berlin-Pankow during the division of the city. She became the director of the radio station (since 1946) and worked as a writer until her death in 1994. Her husband died in 1975. She is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte. Her son is the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck , whose daughter Jenny Erpenbeck is also a writer.

Awards

Works

Zinner's early works were satirical-agitational texts that took up everyday life as well as daily political issues. In connection with the work for the "Studio 1934" she turned to the drama; it kept the political topicality. Her play General Landt was a reaction to Carl Zuckmayer's drama Des Teufels General , which she found trivializing. In any case , the protest movement of West German scientists against nuclear war raised a suspicious theme . Furthermore, she took up historical topics (including the wars of liberation against Napoleon, the women's movement and the anti-fascist resistance ). Your trilogy of novels Ahnen und Erben has autobiographical traits.

  • Under the roofs. Poems, Moscow 1936.
  • That happened , poems, Moscow 1939.
  • Folk songs and folk poetry . Reseals, Kiev 1939.
  • Café Payer. Play, premiered in 1945. Made in 1940/41. Translates Czech and Hungarian.
  • Far and near . Poems, 1947.
  • Humanistic sonnet. 1947.
  • Everyday life in an unusual country. Reports, short stories and poems, 1950.
  • Game into life . Drama, 1951. Translated into Polish and Slovenian.
  • The man with the bird. Comedy, 1952.
  • Happy women and children . Stories, reports, poems, 1953.
  • The vicious circle. Drama, 1953. Translated into French, Czech, Japanese, Chinese.
  • We're going to Moscow. Children's book, 1953.
  • Just one woman. Novel about Louise Otto-Peters , 1954. Published in Germany in 1984.
  • First beginnings. and I'll never forget Stories in: Hammer und Feder , 1955.
  • Lützower. Drama, 1955.
  • General Landt. Drama, premiered in 1957. Made in 1950/51.
  • The judgment. Political review. In: ndl 1958/59.
  • What happened if …? Comedy, 1959.
  • Definitely suspicious . Drama, 1959.
  • Plautus in the nunnery . Retelling as libretto, 1959.
  • Fischer in Niezow . Libretto, 1959.
  • Performance control. Youth piece, 1960.
  • Ravensbrücker Ballad. Tragedy, 1961.
  • An American in Berlin. Posse, 1963.
  • When love dies Four novellas, 1965.
  • Elisabeth Trowe. Movie narration, 1969.
  • Ancestors and heirs. Novel trilogy.
    • Regina. 1968.
    • The sisters. 1970.
    • Fini. 1973.
  • We speak out what is. Studio 1934. In: Erlebte Geschichte , Volume 2, 1972, ed. by Günter Albrecht.
  • On the red carpet. Experiences, thoughts, impressions, 1978.
  • Katja. Roman, 1980. (FRG 1981)
  • The solution. Roman, 1981.
  • Arrangement with death. Roman, 1984. (FRG 1985)
  • The great impatience. Story 1988.
  • Self-questioning. Memoirs 1989, ISBN 3-371-00195-4 .

Film adaptations

Radio plays

literature

  • Zinner, Hedda : In: Lexicon of socialist German literature . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1964, pp. 563-565.
  • Simone Barck : Hedda Zinner . In: Literature of the German Democratic Republic . Volume 3. Volk and Wiisen, Berlin 1987, pp. 530-547 and pp. 639-643.
  • Uta Klaedtke, Martina Ölke: Remember and invent. GDR authors and 'Jewish identity' (Hedda Zinner, Monika Maron , Barbara Honigmann ) . In: Ariane Huml (ed.): Jewish intellectuals in the 20th century . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2003. ISBN 3-8260-2310-2 , pp. 249-274.
  • Bernd-Rainer Barth , Peter Erler :  Zinner, Hedda . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Jana Rahders: Can you deny the truth all your life? The socialist worldview of the GDR author Hedda Zinner . In: Siegfried Lokatis (Ed.): From the author to the censorship file. Adventure in reading country GDR . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2014, pp. 73–80.

Web links

Commons : Hedda Zinner  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ ЦИ́ННЕР (Zinner), Хедда , FEB
  2. ^ Biographical databases - Zinner, Hedda , bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de
  3. ^ Valentina Choschewa: "VOICE OF RUSSIA celebrates 85th anniversary" . In: “Voice of Russia, October 28, 2014”. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  4. ^ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 336 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Zinner, Hedda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, actress, cabaret artist, reciter, journalist and radio director
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1905 or May 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1994
Place of death Berlin , Germany