Cornelia Rimpau

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Cornelia Rimpau (born January 18, 1947 ) is a German writer .

Career

Cornelia Rimpau grew up in Lower Saxony; after graduating from high school in Hanover, she studied German and history in Göttingen and Munich. After graduating in 1971, she worked as a German and history teacher, left civil service in 1978, lived with her family in the country and began to write in 1986. She is currently working on her fourth novel. While doing research in the university and commercial music business, she founded the Hanover section of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now organization in 2004 .

Artistic creation

Her first novel, Der Magnetberg , was published in 1989, based on actual events during the time of National Socialism and the Second World War . The protagonist of the book is 18-year-old Thea Brandau. Personal and political experiences after graduating from high school in 1938 abruptly force her to grow up. One of the locations is near the counter mountains in the Harz foreland , where a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp was established in 1944 . The apolitical conservative attitude of an estate family is depicted . Cornelia Rimpau's best-known work Die Saalbergs was published in 1995 under the title Zenit . The book describes the history of the Saalberg family between 1939 and 1991, determined by political differences and personal rivalries between the brothers Joachim and Benedikt Saalberg. In the writer's third novel, The American Officer , a distant event is also at the heart of the plot. In 1940 a picture was stolen in occupied Paris, and 50 years later it is still being sought. The protagonist, the young journalist Marie Zacharias, unexpectedly finds herself at the center of this research.

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  1. ↑ Publishing information in: Rimpau: Der Magnetberg. 1992, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Rimpau, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1947