Annemarie Weber

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Annemarie Weber (born as: Annemarie Siegmund , pseudonyms : Katja Henning , born June 8, 1918 in Berlin , † January 15, 1991 in Berlin) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Annemarie Weber was the second daughter of an auditor. She first worked as a bookseller and after the end of World War II a . a. as an interpreter for the British Military Government . Finally she worked as a journalist for the RIAS . From 1946 to 1951 she was married to Heinrich Weber, with whom she had two children.

From 1952 she lived as a freelance journalist and writer in Berlin. She worked temporarily as an editor for the Berliner Morgenpost and published her first short stories and feature articles a . a. for the world , the time and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . For almost four decades, feature articles, reports and travelogues about her appeared in the Tagesspiegel . During this time she also made long trips to England , France , Italy and Libya . Annemarie Weber and the writer Rudolf Lorenzen , with whom she was married for a second time from 1955 to 1968, became the glamorous couple of the West Berlin bohemians .

In 1962 the author received the Young Generation Literature Prize from the city of Berlin for her novel Korso (1961). In the following years Weber wrote and published numerous short stories and other novels , including Westend (1966), Red Winter (1969) and The Young Gods (1974). The author found the central themes of her work in pre- war and post-war Berlin and in the life of an emancipated woman. For example, in the novel Westend she deals with the (post) war experience in Berlin around 1945.

Annemarie Weber died in January 1991 at the age of 72 in Berlin. Her final resting place is a family grave in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend (grave location: II-Ur 6-332).

Works

Annemarie Weber's family grave in the Heerstrasse cemetery
  • Be good to women! , Munich 1956
  • Honor the men! , Munich 1957
  • Korso , Hamburg 1961
  • Westend , Munich [u. a.] 1966. New edition: Berlin: Aviva 2012 (with an afterword by Robert Weber), ISBN 978-3-932338-52-6
  • Roter Winter , Munich [a. a.] 1969. Berlin: Aviva 2015
  • Wulkow's big son , Munich 1972
  • A girl from a decent family , Baden-Baden 1973 (under the name Katja Henning)
  • The young gods , Munich 1974
  • Out and about with Lazi , Baden-Baden 1975
  • Invitation to Berlin , Munich [a. a.] 1976
  • Where did I actually come from? ... that's based on an American hit by Peter Mayle , Hamburg 1977 (illustrated by Arthur Robins)
  • Pink or poverty desecrates , Cologne 1978
  • Always on the sofa , Berlin 1982
  • Charlottenburg , Berlin 1984 (together with Arno Kiermeir)

Editing

  • Customs and Sins , Frankfurt am Main 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A vita of Annemarie Weber can be found in the appendix by Annemarie Weber: Westend . Aviva, Berlin 2012, p. 316.
  2. ^ Afterword by Annemarie Weber: Westend . Aviva, Berlin 2012, p. 311.
  3. ^ Annemarie Weber: Westend . Aviva, Berlin 2012, p. 316.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 496.
  5. ↑ Tilman Krause : Duze me roughly to my humiliation! , Review, in: Literarisches Welt , May 2, 2015, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Annemarie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lorenzen, Annemarie (married name); Henning, Katja (pseudonym); Pepper, Paula (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1991
Place of death Berlin