Barbara Neuhaus

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Barbara Neuhaus , b. Kurzer (born October 29, 1924 in Reichenstein , Lower Silesia Province ; † February 28, 2007 ) was a German writer and radio play author .

Life

Neuhaus was born on October 29, 1924 in Reichenstein, then Silesian, as the daughter of a chemist and a teacher. She attended schools in Reichenstein, Patschkau and Glatz , where she also graduated from high school in 1942. She then trained as an editor until 1944, after which she was obliged to do military service. After the end of the war, Neuhaus initially found a job in Glatz as the German editor of the “Official News Gazette of the Red Army for the German Population”. In 1947 she was expelled from her home country and went to Trebbin in the Soviet zone of occupation . In 1948 she found a job as a farm worker on the Volksgut in Siethen and with a new farmer . In 1949 she became a member of the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany (DBD) and initially editor for women's issues and in 1951 head of culture at the DBD central organ Bauernecho . From 1951 she was a member of the DBD district board in Berlin and its secretariat for a few years. In 1953 she moved into the East Berlin city council for the DBD . In November 1954 she was named by the city council as the Berlin representative of the DBD for the People's Chamber, of which she was a member of the 2nd and 3rd electoral periods until 1963. From 1955 she was a member of the editorial board of Bauernecho and, in addition to her professional work, completed a distance learning course in journalism at the KMU Leipzig , which she graduated in 1963 with a degree in journalism. From 1964 Neuhaus worked as a freelance author.

Neuhaus' literary work includes a whole series of detective novels, some of which appeared in the DIE - Delicts clues investigations series. At the same time she was also active extensively for radio. In addition to detective radio plays , she wrote 23 episodes between 1974 and 1981 for the long-lived family series Neumann, 2x ringing, broadcast by radio in the GDR .

Barbara Neuhaus was married to the writer Wolfgang Neuhaus (1929–1966) from 1952 until his death . She published his last work, a documentary report entitled Kampf gegen Sternlauf , after completing it in 1968.

Barbara Neuhaus died at the age of 82.

Publications

  • 1968: Witches in the Luch , Roman, Military Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic , Berlin
  • 1969: Steps in the Rain , detective novel, Das Neue Berlin , Berlin
  • 1972: 26 platforms , Roman, Das Neue Berlin, Berlin
  • 1975: Radio signals from the Warta arc , non-fiction book, GDR military publisher, Berlin
  • 1976: Fear motif , detective novel, Das Neue Berlin, Berlin
  • 1984: I don't ask for forgiveness , detective novel, the new Berlin, Berlin
  • 1986: Late confession , detective novel, Das Neue Berlin, Berlin
  • 1987: Indian Summer , detective novel, Das Neue Berlin, Berlin
  • 1992: The Last Key , detective novel, Das Neue Berlin, Berlin, ISBN 3-359-00661-5
  • 1993: Probably the one who has no heirs , detective novel, Das Neue Berlin, Berlin, ISBN 3-359-00689-5

Radio plays

  • 1974–1981: Neumann, 2 rings (23 episodes) - Director: Joachim Gürtner
  • 1975: Not a trivial offense (from the crime series ) - Director: Barbara Plensat
  • 1976: Coeurdame - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner
  • 1977: Black Oranges - Director: Werner Grunow
  • 1978: The Stolen Grandpa - Director: Günter Bormann
  • 1979: Schweigegeld - Director: Joachim Witte
  • 1980: His only letter - directed by Ingeborg Medschinski
  • 1981: ... but the moor is silent - Director: Edith Schorn
  • 1982: The Annoying Grandma - Director: Wolfgang Brunecker
  • 1983: Die Wurstmafia - Director: Joachim Gürtner
  • 1983: Trumpet Solo - Director: Joachim Gürtner
  • 1984: Crushed traces - Director: Joachim Gürtner
  • 1984: Revenge - Director: Walter Niklaus
  • 1984: The secret of the old grandfather clock - Director: Joachim Gürtner
  • 1984: Im Herbststurm - Director: Annegret Berger
  • 1985: The Big Mistake - Director: Edith Schorn
  • 1985: Holiday at the blue lake - Director: Joachim Gürtner
  • 1986: Himself is the man - Director: Annegret Berger
  • 1986: Der Hund von Baskerow - Director: Rüdiger Show
  • 1987: Million Bars - Director: Annegret Berger
  • 1987: The Malpractice - Director: Klaus Zippel
  • 1988: The Judge's Death - Director: Walter Niklaus
  • 1990: The Ex-Lady - Director: Günter Bormann

Awards

literature

  • WHO IS WHO in the SBZ ?. A biographical manual . Publishing house for international cultural exchange, Berlin-Zehlendorf 1958, p. 181.
  • Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 3rd electoral period . Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 455.
  • Meyer's pocket dictionary. Writer of the GDR , VEB Bibliographisches Institut 1975, p. 400.
  • Rita Pawlowski: “Our women stand by their husbands”. Women in the People's Chamber of the GDR 1950–1989. A biographical manual. trafo, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89626-652-1 , p. 198.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short biography at krimilexikon.de , accessed on June 5, 2016
  2. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from March 6, 2007 at www.genealogy.net/de (accessed January 4, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Neuhaus, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurzer, Barbara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and radio play author, DBD functionary
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenstein , Lower Silesia Province
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2007