Edith Bergner

Edith Bergner ( pseudonym : Edith Müller-Beeck ; born April 19, 1917 in Pretzsch / Weißenfels district , † March 16, 1998 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German writer .

Life

Edith Bergner was the daughter of a farmer . She completed an agricultural apprenticeship in Mecklenburg and studied agriculture for a few semesters . She later worked in nursing and as a laboratory assistant . During the Second World War she worked as a news helper for the Wehrmacht in Norway . After 1945 Bergner lived for a time as a journalist in Hamburg, then ran her father's farm and from 1952 worked as a freelance writer in Halle (Saale) .

For decades she worked as IMB "Barbara Seidel" for the Stasi and spied on her colleagues.

Edith Bergner mainly published narrative children's books , texts for picture books and for puppet theater . She was active in the “ movement of writing workers ”, in the Halle “working group for children's literature” and in the GDR writers' association .

Edith Bergner has received numerous awards for her literary work, including a. 1959 the Handel Prize of the City of Halle, 1960 and 1964 the Literature Prize of the Free German Trade Union Federation , 1974 the Alex Wedding Prize and the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and silver, the Star of Friendship of Nations in silver, the Artur Becker Medal , the Theodor Neubauer Medal and the Clara Zetkin Medal .

Works

• My little big diary , Chemnitz [u. a.] 1944 (under the name Edith Müller Beeck)
• Schnurz , Berlin 1953 (under the name Edith Müller-Beeck, together with Anneliese Probst )
• Westphalian harvest , Halle (Saale) 1953 (under the name Edith Müller-Beeck)
• Even Anton Miese laughs ... , Halle 1954 (under the name Edith Müller-Beeck)
• Grimm's Fairy Tales on the Puppet Stage , 2 volumes, Leipzig 1954 and 1957 (under the name Edith Müller-Beeck)
• The golden goose , Leipzig 1956
• Cat and mouse in company , Leipzig 1956
• King Drosselbart , Leipzig 1956
• The fairy tale of Mamed-Dshan , Berlin 1956 (together with Gisela Zimmermann)
• The adder crown , Leipzig 1956
• Nudge and Stippel , Berlin 1956
• The birthday dolls , Berlin 1957
• Do you know Pieferding? , Leipzig 1957
• Kile Bamba and the Recke Lotsche , Berlin 1957
• Vom Jochen, who didn't want to clean up , Berlin 1957 (together with Ingeborg Meyer-Rey )
• Punch in the children's home , Berlin 1958
• So und so , Berlin 1958 (together with Karl Fischer)
• The game of someone , Leipzig 1958
• Alois Hoppe and Son , Halle (S.) 1959
• The first day of school , Berlin 1959 (together with Ingeborg Meyer-Rey )
• The big yellow dragon , Berlin 1959 (together with Ingeborg Meyer-Rey )
• Playing with Philine , Halle (Saale) 1959
• Zottelhaube , Berlin 1959 (together with Rolf Müller)
• Vitzendorfer school stories , Berlin 1960
• Lothar and Bäuchel , Berlin 1961
• Captain Ede , Berlin 1963
• Jan, the violinist , Berlin 1964
• Adebar, der Klapperstorch , Berlin 1967 (together with Steffi Bluhm)
• The blue pearls , Berlin 1967
• Tosho and Tamiki , Berlin 1969
• The Star in the Apple Tree , Berlin 1972 (together with Ingeborg Meyer-Rey )
• As blue as the sky , Berlin 1973
• The girl in the red sweater , Berlin 1974
• The Star in the Apple Tree , Berlin 1974 (together with Ingeborg Meyer-Rey )
• Die Krähe Rosalind , Leipzig 1975 (together with Regine Grube-Heinecke )
• The dachshund Oskar , Berlin 1976 (together with Gertrud Zucker )
• Sleeping Beauty , Halle 1978
• Schinschilla , Berlin 1979 (together with Albrecht von Bodecker )
• Riki and Rumie , Berlin 1980 (together with Dieter Müller)
• Out and about with Uncle Shiga , Berlin 1981 (together with Wolfgang Würfel )
• Blossom child , Berlin 1990

Editing

• A rose for Katharina , Berlin 1971
• Voices from our city , Leuna 1972

literature

• Telling about life the way it is ... , Berlin 1987

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joachim Walther, Gesine von Prittwitz: Security area literature , Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3548265537 , page 734