Elfriede Brüning

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Elfriede Brüning with Gesine Lötzsch (2012)

Elfriede Brüning ( pseudonym Elke Klent ; born November 8, 1910 in Berlin ; † August 5, 2014 there ) was a German writer and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Elfriede Brüning 1951, between Rudolf Engel and Wieland Herzfelde

Elfriede Brüning was the daughter of a carpenter and a seamstress. After leaving grammar school after the tenth grade, she worked as an office clerk and from 1929 as a secretary in a Berlin company in the film industry. At the same time, the first journalistic works appeared in the feature pages of various newspapers, such as the Berliner Tageblatt , the Berliner Börsen-Courier and the Vossische Zeitung . After attending the Marxist Workers' School , Brüning, whose parents were involved in the labor movement, joined the KPD in 1930 and worked for the communist press in the Weimar Republic . From 1932 she belonged to the League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers (BPRS). The Nazi takeover of power in 1933 prevented the publication of their first socially critical novel Handwerk has golden Boden ; it first appeared in 1970 under the title Little People . Instead, Brüning switched to entertainment literature and published the successful novel And besides is summer in 1934 .

In the first years of the Third Reich , Elfriede Brüning worked in the communist resistance and made articles under the pseudonym Elke Klent for the Neue Deutsche Blätter , a German exile magazine published in Prague . She also undertook courier trips to Prague on behalf of the BPRS. The illegal Central Committee of the KPD met in a back room of her parents' shop. At the end of 1935 the author was arrested and held in the Barnimstrasse women's prison in Berlin . The trial for treason against her ended in 1937 with an acquittal , because the Gestapo could not prove her illegal activities. While he was in prison, Brüning had been given permission to write, so that in 1936 the novel Young Heart Must Wander could appear. In 1937 Brüning married the writer and publishing editor Joachim Barckhausen . The marriage, which lasted until 1947, resulted in a daughter in 1942, who later became the writer Christiane Barckhausen . In the following years Elfriede Brüning worked as a reviewer for a film company. During this time she and her husband wrote the scenario for the film Semmelweis - Savior of Mothers , which was shot by DEFA after the war . She spent the Second World War on the estate of her in-laws in the Magdeburg Börde .

Elfriede Brüning (left), 1953

Elfriede Brüning returned to Berlin in 1946. She reactivated her membership in the KPD and from 1949 worked for newspapers and magazines in the GDR . Since 1950 she has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin. She was the author of novels , short stories , reports and television scripts . Her novels, which were widely read in the GDR and were often autobiographically tinged, mostly deal with the fate of women, such as that of Anni Sauer , who was close to her , as well as the resistance against National Socialism in the Third Reich. She still gave interviews in old age.

tomb

Elfriede Brüning died at the age of 103. The burial took place in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte .

Awards (selection)

Others

Her estate is located in the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World in Dortmund .

Works

  • And besides, it's summer , Leipzig 1934
  • Young heart must wander , Berlin 1936
  • On a narrow country , Leipzig 1938
  • ... so that you can go on living , Berlin 1949
  • The repentance. This is Agnes , Leipzig 1949
  • One child to myself , Leipzig 1950
  • Life before us , Berlin 1952
  • Regine Haberkorn , Berlin 1955
  • Gabriele , Berlin 1956
  • Rome main post office , Berlin 1958
  • Sunday the thirteenth , Berlin 1960
  • Ways and Fates , Berlin 1962
  • The face of our time , Berlin 1965
  • Children without parents , Halle 1968
  • Little People , Berlin 1970
  • September trip , Halle (Saale) 1974
  • High treason , Berlin 1975
  • Jasmina and the lotus flower , Berlin 1976
  • In my time , Halle (Saale) 1977
  • Partners , Halle [u. a.] 1978
  • Fates of women , Halle [u. a.] 1981
  • Like other people , Halle [u. a.] 1983
  • Indian games and other stories , Halle 1986
  • Annoying witnesses? , Halle [u. a.] 1990
  • Children in the Kreidekreis , Berlin 1992
  • And besides, it was my life , Berlin 1994
  • Everyone lives for himself alone , Berlin 1999

literature

Movie

Web links

Commons : Elfriede Brüning  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elfriede Brüning is dead. In: Neues Deutschland, August 5, 2014
  2. ↑ Sabine Kebir : From everyday life in the Obituary in Young World stage from August 8, 2014
  3. ↑ Don't stop . Interview in Der Freitag . November 5, 2009
  4. ^ History of the ensemble "Music and Movement", today "Sadako". In: Children and youth ensemble SADAKO. Retrieved October 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ It was terrible that we had to build the wall . Interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on November 7, 2010
  6. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Elfriede Brüning
  7. ↑ ... so that you can continue to live on Nemesis - Socialist Archive for Fiction
personal data
SURNAME Brüning, Elfriede
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klent, Elke (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 2014
Place of death Berlin