Anna Wimschneider
Anna Wimschneider (born Traunspurger , June 16, 1919 in Pfarrkirchen , Lower Bavaria ; died January 1, 1993 there ) was a German farmer and author.
Life
She was born the fourth of nine children. At the age of eight she lost her mother who died in childbed . From then on she had to run the household on the farm and with the extended family. In 1939 she married Albert Wimschneider, who was drafted into the military eleven days later and returned from the Second World War seriously wounded. Anna Wimschneider now continued to run the farm and temporarily looked after two uncles in need of care, an aunt and the mother-in-law. She and her husband had three daughters.
She became famous in 1985 with her autobiography Herbstmilch - Memoirs of a Peasant Woman . This was filmed in 1988 by Joseph Vilsmaier under the title Herbstmilch with Dana Vávrová and Werner Stocker in the leading roles. Anna and Albert Wimschneider can be seen in supporting roles in this film. Supported by the film adaptation, the book developed into a bestseller that has also been translated into other languages . In Piper-Verlag , Munich and Zurich alone , 57 editions with a total of more than two million book copies had been published by 1995.
In 1991 Wimschneider also published the book “I'm just one of the old folk”. Stories of rural life then and now .
Anna Wimschneider died of a stroke on New Year's Day 1993 at the age of 73. She was buried in the New Südfriedhof (grave 109-2-20) in Munich. Her husband Albert died in 2005 and was buried next to her grave. Anna Wimschneider's estate is in the Bavarian State Library in Munich .
Award
Anna Wimschneider was awarded the Bavarian Poet Thaler in 1990 by the Munich tower scribe, and she also received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.
Works
- Herbstmilch memoirs of a farmer's wife, Piper Taschenbuch 7360, Munich / Zurich 2011 (first edition 1984, number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from April 3 to June 18, 1989 ), ISBN 978-3-492-27360-2 ; New edition with 50 pictures from her life , Munich, Piper 1989, ISBN 3-492-03365-2 ; as audio book: read by Maria Singer. Direction and production manager: Johanna Steinbach-Grobst, Steinbach Talking Books, Schwäbisch Hall 2007, ISBN 978-3-88698-485-5 (4 CDs).
- I'm just old school . Stories of rural life then and now. Compiled by Katharina Meschkowski with the collaboration of Albert Wimschneider, with 31 color and 61 black and white photos by Bettina Böhmer, Piper, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-492-03393-8 .
literature
- Hans Kratzer: Escaped from bad times , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 30, 2017, p. 40
Web links
- Anna Wimschneider in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Anna Wimschneider in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anna Wimschneider. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
- Anna Wimschneider in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
- Biography of Anna Wimschneider ( Memento from December 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- The estate of farmer Anna Wimschneider on the BR program Capriccio
- Anna Wimschneider is a guest on the literary program 3nach9
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Anna Wimschneider
- ↑ Maximilian Schreiber: "... I would no longer become a farmer" - Anna Wimschneider's estate in the Bavarian State Library . In: Bavarian Library Forum: BFB . tape 12 , no. 3 , August 2018, ISSN 0340-000X , p. 176–177 ( bibliotheksforum-bayern.de [PDF]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wimschneider, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German farmer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parish churches , Lower Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1993 |
| Place of death | Parish churches |