Anna Elisabeth Wiede

Anna Elisabeth Wiede (born December 20, 1928 in Berlin ; † June 16, 2009 there ) was a German playwright , dramaturge and translator.

As the daughter of a toolmaker, she attended high school and then worked as an editor in Munich . In 1955, she and her husband Peter Hacks moved to the GDR . Together with hacks she translated in 1956 as the first work in the new state of Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble , the piece The playboy of the western world (dt. The Playboy of the Western World ) by John Millington Synge . Her first work for children was The Beast of Samarkand in the 1950s , which became a huge hit. For this dramatic fairy tale she received a prize for the promotion of children's and youth literature from the GDR Ministry of Culture in 1957 , which she won in a competition.

In Berlin she worked with Bertolt Brecht and wrote stories for children that were published in anthologies.

Anna Elisabeth Wiede lived both in Berlin on Schönhauser Allee and in Groß Machnow .

Works

• The beast of Samarkand , 1957
• The sundial , 1958
• Getting married is always a risk in 1963, as Saul O'Hara
• The adventures of Simplizius Simplizissimus , 1969
• The rats of Hameln 1959 (first performance 1979 in Greifswald, director: Manfred Dietrich , stage: Mathias Stein)
• A friend of truth according to Wycherley as a translation and adaptation (first performance 1969/70 season Deutsches Theater Göttingen, GDR first performance 1986 in Greifswald, director: Manfred Dietrich)
• The quiet Pauline. And other fairy-tale stories , Berlin ( Eulenspiegel-Verlag ) 2007
• St. Brendan's Eiland , 2008

Web links

• Literature by and about Anna Elisabeth Wiede in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günter Albrecht et al .: Writers of the GDR , 2nd edition, Leipzig 1975, p. 188 and p. 189
2. ↑ Beast tamer - Anna Elisabeth Wiede died , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 17, 2009
3. ↑ Horst Laube: Peter Hacks , Munich 1972, p. 12