Annemarie in the Au

Annemarie in der Au (born October 22, 1924 as Annemarie Westphal in Tilsit ; † August 18, 1998 in Krefeld ) was a German writer .

Life

Annemarie in der Au grew up in Tilsit , East Prussia , where she also passed her school leaving examination. Then she began to study pharmacy , which she had to break off because of the war. She fled westward from the advancing Red Army . In Lübeck and Hamburg she completed an apprenticeship as an actress ; at the same time she studied literature , art and theater history . In 1953 she married the director and actor Ottomar in der Au. In 1955, their daughter Dietlind was born in the Au. In the following years, Annemarie in der Au switched to writing literary texts. She later moved to Krefeld , where she worked as a freelance journalist , writer and lecturer at the adult education center . She was a member of the authors 'association Die Kogge , the Esslingen artists' guild and the Marburger Kreis .

Annemarie in der Aus Werk mainly comprises poetry , but also narrative works , essays , plays , radio plays and radio features .

Awards

1970 Radio Play Prize of the East German Cultural Council Foundation (Foundation for Cultural Cooperation)
1974 Honorary gift for the Andreas Gryphius Prize
1974 Decoration of Honor of the German Red Cross
1985 Krefeld city seal
1988 Culture Prize of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft
1990 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
1994 Pro-Arte-Medal from the Esslingen Artists' Guild .

Works

The Trial of Power ( short story), Itzehoe 1962

Woe to him who falls out of the ordinary (comedy), Mindelheim 1964

Everything revolves around Es (novel), Regensburg 1965

The shadows linger longer (poems), Munich 1965

The glass ball sacrifice (novel), Buxheim 1968

No more lunar silver as currency (poems), Dortmund 1971

Windmill blades , Freising 1971

When paradise was still great. The Christmas light , Bonn 1972

With us in Krefeld , Krefeld 1972 (together with Johannes Dropmann and Wolf-Dieter Henkel)

Holidays on Juist , Krefeld 1972 (together with Ria Schmalbach-Denters)

Sunday breakfast , Freising 1974

The doors are open (poems), Dortmund 1975

Invitation to the festival , Bonn 1977

One dream and back , Freising 1979

Dismissed restlessly in the day (poems), Dortmund 1980

Night on the Mount of Olives (short story), 1982

Hello, here man ... (story), Stuttgart 1983

I marry grandpa (Roman), Husum 1983

Smoke signals and scratch feet (satirical miniatures), Esslingen 1984

That was only available in Wawnice (story), Husum 1985

Cracks in concrete , Freising 1985

The baby Jesus in East Prussia , Husum 1987

Silent Night , Bonn 1988

And it came to pass ... , Freising 1989

The unreliable Christmas angel and other East Prussian stories , Husum 1989

Childhood stayed on the lagoon , Husum in 1991

All my fans , Freising 1994

The summer that was a spring , Krefeld 1996

We take the wave with us , Marburg 1996

East Prussia: at home in the wide country , Augsburg 2002 (together with Grete Fischer and Eva Reimann)

East Prussia: as inaccessible as the moon , Augsburg 2003 (together with Grete Fischer)

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personal data
SURNAME	Au, Annemarie in the
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Westphal, Annemarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tilsit
DATE OF DEATH	August 18, 1998
Place of death	Krefeld