Anne Maar

Anne Maar (* 1965 in Stuttgart ) is a German children's book author , theater director and director of the Franconian Theater Schloss Maßbach .

Life

She is the daughter of the children's book author Paul Maar and the family therapist Nele Maar and the granddaughter of the actor and theater director Oskar Ballhaus and his first wife, the actress Lena Hutter (1911-2003), who both founded the "Fränkische Theater" in Coburg in 1946 had.

After graduating from high school, Maar began to work as a museum attendant and wrote several scripts together with Andreas Fröhlich , including for the children's series Siebenstein . She later worked as an assistant director, later as a theater director. Her first children's book was published in 1993. Her picture books are rather fantastic, the longer stories realistic and often deal with the subject of friendship - between girls and boys, between children and adults and between children and animals. She also addresses fear, arguments and loneliness.

After the death of her grandmother Lena Hutter, she took over the management of the "Franconian Theater" from her and her second husband Herbert Heinz (1922–2002), thus continuing the tradition of her grandparents.

Together with Andreas Armand Aelter, she wrote the play The White Rose , which was successfully staged at the “Franconian Theater Schloss Maßbach”, and in 2010 the children's play Luzi und die Tanten together with Christian Schidlowsky, which was co-produced between the Franconian Theater and the Stadttheater Fürth in Fürth was premiered.

Maar has lived in Wetzhausen in Lower Franconia since 1991 .

Works

picture books

• Fred the Beetle . Illustrations by Verena Ballhaus . Pro Juventute Verlag, 1997. ISBN 3-715-20378-1
• The beaver castle builders . Illustrations by Paul Maar. Ellermann Verlag, 1998. ISBN 3-770-76394-7
• The wolf cubs . Illustrations by Michael Ruppel . Ellermann Verlag, 1999. ISBN 3-770-76410-2
• Pozor . Illustrations by Bernd Mölck-Tassel . Bajazzo Verlag, 2000. ISBN 3-907-58816-9
• Beetle's trip . Illustrations by Antje Damm . Pro Juventute publishing house, 2000. ISBN 3-715-20429-X
• Everything wrong, Aunt Hanna . Illustrations by Verena Ballhaus. Pro Juventute Verlag, 2001. ISBN 978-3-715-20436-9
• Mouse feast . Illustrations by Antje Damm. Pro Juventute Verlag, 2001. ISBN 3-715-20441-9
• Lotte and Lena in the land of letters . Illustrations by Stefanie Harjes . Bajazzo Verlag, 2005. ISBN 978-3-907-58857-4

First reading books

• A dream dog for Oskar - Tulipan Verlag
• Hugo moves - Tulipan Verlag - both illustrated by Verena Ballhaus
• Soccer and lemon ice cream - Tulipan Verlag - illustrated by SaBine Büchner

Children's books

• The secret room . book on demand
• The other friend . Illustrations by Verena Ballhaus. Bajazzo Verlag, 1998. ISBN 3-907-58803-7
• The jump into the water . Bajazzo Verlag, 2000. ISBN 3-907-58814-2
• More monkeys than giraffes - Oetinger Verlag, together with Paul Maar, illustrated by Verena Ballhaus

Awards

• 2017 Lower Franconian Culture Prize .
• 2018 Literature grant from the Free State of Bavaria for her novel project Irgendwo in mir ich bin ich
• 2020 Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum

Web links

• Literature by and about Anne Maar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
• Anne Maar's website
• Franconian Theater Maßbach Castle

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theater Schloss Maßbach: Lower Franconian Culture Prize goes to Anne Maar , br.de, November 6, 2017
2. ↑ Three novels, two poetry. (No longer available online.) Literaturportal Bayern, June 28, 2018, archived from the original on June 30, 2018 ; accessed on June 29, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ https://www.stmwk.bayern.de/pressemitteilung/11822/nr-003-vom-08-01-2020.html