Franziska Groszer

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Franziska Liselotte Groszer (actually Großer ; * 1944 in Berlin-Friedrichshagen ) is a German author for children and young people.

Life

Groszer grew up in East Berlin. She married Gert Großer, whose mother Lucie Großer (1914–1997) founded the first children's book publisher after the end of the war with the old Berlin publishing house Lucie Groszer . The couple had 2 children (* 1996 and 1968). After the crackdown on the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia in 1968, she wrote and distributed protest leaflets. For this purpose, she was appointed in 2008 by Czech President Vaclav Klaus together with other Eastern European oppositionists, u. a. Agnes Heller , honored with a medal in Prague.

In 1969, together with her husband at the time and Erika Berthold, a daughter of Lothar Berthold , the head of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED , and Frank Havemann, a son of Robert Havemann , in Friedrichshain Samariterstraße, she founded Kommune 1 Ost . After Großer, Berthold and Havemann had said goodbye to their original opposition with a letter to Wolf Biermann and Robert Havemann, Groszer became an "enemy in their own house".

Franziska Groszer was divorced in 1970. Her permission to study German and art was revoked. She worked as a factory worker, doll maker and employee at the Center for Children's Literature. A children's theater (text and direction) and a children's weekend shop in Prenzlauer Berg ended with a ban. A first public reading with Thomas Brasch and Bettina Wegner ended with Groszer being banned from appearing and publishing in general. After numerous protests, such as in 1976 against the comment in the SED party newspaper Neues Deutschland on the public self-immolation of Pastor Oskar Brüsewitz and against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann, after interrogation by the State Security Service and house searches, the company moved to the Federal Republic in 1977.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, Franziska Groszer worked as a lecturer , typesetter and head of the Unna Literature Office. She published short stories, novels for young people and children's books. She worked for the “Women for Peace” in West Berlin and in the Romania Committee, together with Freya Klier , Hertha Müller and others.

Franziska Groszer lives in Berlin.

honors and awards

  • 1987 Erich Kästner children's and youth book prize for snot and water .
  • 2008 Honored by the Czech President for her protest against the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
  • 2012 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Publications (excerpt)

  • Snot and water: a youth in East Berlin . Hamburg: Dressler, 1987
  • Kaos with cat . Hamburg: Dressler, 1988
  • Tilly in the puddle . Hamburg: Dressler, 1990
  • Julia Augenstern . Hamburg: Dressler, 1991
  • The country egg . Hamburg: Dressler, 1995
  • Claire and Sophie . Hamburg: Dressler, 2004
  • The blue king and his kingdom . Leipzig: Altberliner, 2005
  • Anton and the creepy house . Munich: Terzio, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Czech Republic honors foreigners who resisted in August 1968 . Radio Praha, August 22, 2008
  2. ↑ Christina Onnasch: 1968 in the GDR: Experiment "Commune 1 East" , in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, August 14, 2008.
    Karsten Krampitz: Die Ost-Kommune , in: Berliner Zeitung, May 26, 2007
    Ute Kätzel: Commune 1 East , in: Friday, December 20, 2002.
    Karsten Krampitz: Youth revolts in the GDR: “More beer, man!” , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 2, 2010.
  3. ↑ Awakening and other breaks. The commune 1 east . In: How Far Did the Tomato Fly? Heinrich Böll Foundation 1999.
  4. ↑ Snot and water - spit in the sand . Die Zeit, October 9, 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Groszer, Franziska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groszer, Franziska Liselotte (full name); Großer, Franziska Liselotte (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of children's and young people's books
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Friedrichshagen