Annette Seemann

Annette Seemann (born March 4, 1959 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German author and translator.

She was born as Annette Besier. After graduating from high school and occasional appearances in the Frankfurt cellar theater , she studied German and Romance studies in Frankfurt am Main and Poitiers ( France ) until 1982 . In 1985 she married Hellmut Seemann from Heidelberg . The later translator received her doctorate in 1986 in her hometown with the subject “ Merlin - Prophet and Magician”. phil.

She began her translation career with three plays by Carlo Gozzi . From 1990 to 2000 she was one of the freelance authors of the FAZ magazine. Her novel "The Wrong Child" was published in 1998. She has lived in Weimar since 2002 .

In 2003 Annette Seemann took over the chairmanship of the Society of Friends of Anna Amalia Library (GAAB) e. V. Since 2014 she has been a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works

• Weimar. Eine Kulturgeschichte , Beck Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63030-9
• Weimar . - Text: A. Seemann; Photos: H. Wenzel-Orf, Rhino-Verl., Ilmenau, 2010, ISBN 978-3-939399-21-6
• History of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library , Frankfurt, Leipzig, 2007, ISBN 978-3-458-19293-0 ( Insel-Bücherei 1293)
• Anna Amalia: Duchess v. Weimar. , Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-458-17345-8
• Weimar: a literary travel guide , Wiss. Book Society, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 978-3-534-19017-1
• Weimar - the most important buildings , Edition, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-361-00596-5
• Weimar - a travel companion , Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-458-34766-6
• Prodi, Paolo, A History of Justice (translation), Beck, 2003, ISBN 3-406-49519-2
• “I am a liberated woman”, Peggy Guggenheim , List-Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-548-60318-1
• “I have turned into a saint”, Frida Kahlo , List-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-548-60147-2
• Sensuality and obstinacy , Rowohlt, 2002, ISBN 3-499-23319-3
• “I am everything!”, Gala Dali , Econ-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-612-26606-3
• The wrong child (novel), Piper, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-492-22905-0
• Christiane von Goethe: Poetry and Truth. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2018, ISBN 978-3-96311-095-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Annette Seemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website : Ullstein book

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annette Seemann, Merlin - Prophet and Magician? A comparative study of Merlin material in the Middle Ages and in the 19th and 20th centuries , dissertation, Frankfurt am Main, 1987.