Anne Geelhaar

Anne Geelhaar (born April 5, 1914 in Teichrode , Bomst district , Prussia, today Siedlec, Poland, † April 12, 1998 in Berlin ) was a German children's book author . She also wrote scripts for episodes of Our Sandman and for the DEFA children's film The Singing, Sounding Tree . She was the recipient of the Theodor Körner Prize , the Alex Wedding Prize and the Patriotic Order of Merit .

Life

Anne Geelhaar (born as the daughter of the magistrate's employee Heinrich Pelchen, 1878–1964) went to school in Magdeburg, where she trained as a typesetter, from 1932 as an editorial trainee, worked 1950–1957 in Berlin as an editor for the ABC newspaper , later as a freelance author. She wrote over 35 children's books, over four million copies of which were published, mainly in the GDR.

Works (selection)

Books, picture books and stories

• Till Eulenspiegel. 1953
• The proud Gigaka. 1956
• From Springinkel and the golden cows. 1957
• Andreas with the school folder. 1959
• Six in a ring. 1960
• Goose Dolli. 1961
• The snowman is looking for a woman. 1961
• with Ingeborg Meyer-Rey : Hans Fröhlich and the bird house. 1961
• Knirps and Stefan. 1962
• Two long ears behind the bush. 1962
• In the blueberry forest. 1965
• Filip and the shepherd maxi. 1966
• The starship. 1967
• It happened in Marianow. 1970
• The letter from Odessa. 1970
• Dear May, come and do it. 1971
• The rainbow meadow. 1972
• Bunny Schnurks. 1973
• The little commander. 1974
• The Prince of Hovinka. 1974
• The geese were singing. 1975
• Out into the world. Episodes and pictures from the life of the young Goethe. 1977
• Trout gold belly. 1979
• Head, my head. 1979
• The girl under the rose tree. 1980
• The doll in the moss. 1982
• The marmot and the bear. 1988
• The green horse. 1989
• The singing, ringing tree. 1993
• Grandma on the rainbow. 1994

Retelling

• Till Eulenspiegel, selected for children and retold. 1953
• The Horned Siegfried and Other Folk Books. 1956
• Fortunat and his sons, seven popular books. 1959
• The shepherd. 1967
• The seven Swabians and other popular books. 1968
• Jockel red belly. 1971
• Kjambaki. 1973
• The fairy tale house. 1979
• Bird titiako. 1982
• The monkey tree. 1986
• Bamboo blossom. 1987

Scripts

• The singing, ringing tree. 1956
• The animal kindergarten. 1962
• The colorful hat. 1964
• The little commander. 1973

literature

• Anne Geelhaar on her 70th birthday. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1984
• Steffen Peltsch: Anne Geelhaar. In: Erik Simon & Olaf R. Spittel (Hrsg.): The science fiction of the GDR. Authors and works. A lexicon. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 , pp. 148f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , March 7, 1980, p. 4
2. ^ Annotated bibliography: Children's and youth books from 1945 to 1990 , column 1060

Web links

• Literature by and about Anne Geelhaar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anne Gelhaar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The children's book author Anne Geelhaar died on Sunday: From the singing, sounding tree , obituary by Claudia von Zglinicki in the Berliner Zeitung , April 14, 1998
• Anne Geelhaar Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin