Anne Dorn
Anne Dorn (born November 26, 1925 in Wachau ; † February 8, 2017 in Cologne ; real name Anna Christa Schlegel ) was a German writer .
Life
Anne Dorn wrote novels, stories, poems, dramas, radio plays, radio features , essays and reports. She also developed six auteur films for television. She was an actor in various, including international, multimedia projects. She grew up as the second child of three siblings, attended school in Wachau and then the Realgymnasium in Radeberg . She got a traineeship at the daily newspaper Dresdner Latest Nachrichten , especially in the areas of typesetting, printing and chemigraphy , and then completed an apprenticeship at this newspaper. At the State Academy for Applied Arts , she attended evening classes and in June 1944 was ordered to go to the Salzkammergut in Sankt Gilgen as a compulsory year old girl . At the end of the war, she was in the American-occupied zone of Austria , when she was returned to the former Reich German territory in the British occupation zone in Herford in Westphalia , while her parents were in the Soviet occupation zone . This irreparable division of the family was important for the choice of subjects for her literary work, especially in her work "Hüben und drüber". She concluded her first marriage with a set designer in Herford (1945–1948) and a second with an actor (1950–1969) in Lippe. Later she went to Detmold and Kleve. From 1948 to 1952 she was a costume designer. The four children were born between 1950 and 1959.
The first publication took place in 1967. In 1969 she went with her children to Cologne, where she lived as a freelance writer and has acquired the pseudonym "Anne Dorn". She had long stays in New York, Avignon, Amsterdam and Rome; she made trips to Poland, Hungary and the USSR. Anne Dorn was a member of the Association of German Writers, the PEN Center Germany and GEDOK . In addition to scholarships, including several travel grants from the Foreign Office, she received the advancement award of the city of Cologne in 1973 and the German Journalist Award in 1974. In 1985 she was the guest of honor at Villa Massimo and in 2007 she received the Kester-Haeusler gift of honor from the German Schiller Foundation from 1859 .
When the Historical Archive of Cologne collapsed into itself on 3 March 2009, almost all passed to the archive was premature legacy destroyed her life's work.
Anne Dorn died in 2017 at the age of 91 and was buried in Cologne's Melaten Central Cemetery (Corridor 5 (P) No. 144).
Works
Poetry
- Weather lights , poems, poetenladen Verlag, Leipzig 2011.
- Jakobsleiter , poems, poetenladen Verlag, Leipzig 2015.
prose
- Hüben und drüben , Forum Verlag Leipzig 1991; Revised new edition, Dittrich Verlag, Berlin 2013.
- Stories from a thousand and two years , Forum Verlag, Leipzig 1992.
- Back when the sun was shining , Novelle, Hellerau Verlag, Dresden 1996.
- Siehdichum , Roman, Dittrich Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937717-24-1 .
- Spiegelungen , Roman, Dittrich Verlag, Berlin 2010.
- Loss , essay on the collapse of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, 2009/1010.
Spectacles
- Made over , drama, Hunzinger Bühnenverlag, Bad Homburg vdH 1992.
Radio plays
- 1969: Lauter Luder - Director: Hartmut Kirste ( SWF )
Web links
- Literature by and about Anne Dorn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anne Dorn in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- Anne Dorn at Dittrich Verlag
- Anne Dorn at poetenladen.de
- Anne Dorn - writer, poet. Your life and work - an appreciation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anne Dorn. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 193.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dorn, Anne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schlegel, Anna Christa (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wachau |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 2017 |
| Place of death | Cologne |