Gerda Marie Scheidl

Gerda Marie Scheidl (born June 7, 1913 in Geestemünde ; † February 16, 2005 in Salzhemmendorf ) was a German children's book author .

Life

Gerda Marie Scheidl grew up in Geestemünde ( Bremerhaven ) and attended the girls' high school there . After passing her degree, she took dance courses at the Hellerau Laxenburg dance school near Vienna and took acting lessons. She found engagement at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven early on . After the marriage of the opera singer Otto Scheidl , the Scheidl couple were forced to leave their hometown during the last years of the war . Both found employment at the Dortmund City Theater and in Wiesbaden , where Gerda Marie Scheidl withdrew from professional life due to the birth of two sons and began studying philosophy and art history , among other things . This period also saw the publication of her first children's book falls ( With dream males to fairyland ) in small print runs in the self-published , a collection of fairytale Christmas stories in narrative tradition of the Brothers Grimm .

Returned to Bremerhaven after the war, Gerda Marie Scheidl worked for radio and television . She soon took over the management of the first children's theater productions at the city theater, where she prepared numerous fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm in a child-friendly manner and had them staged. The manuscripts she revised found their way to German-speaking countries, Austria and Switzerland , where similar stage projects were about to be realized.

In addition, she published her own books for children from time to time, which were translated into several languages. Her Christmas stories The four lights of the shepherd Simon ( illustrated by Marcus Pfister ) and A donkey goes to Bethlehem (illustrated by Bernadette Watts ) are considered classics . In recent years, these books have been successfully reprinted by the Swiss children's book publisher NordSüd , which has been publishing Gerda Marie Scheidl's books since the mid-1980s.

Gerda Marie Scheidl died on February 16, 2005, very old in Salzhemmendorf .

Works

Book title

• With dream men to fairy tale land , Wiesbaden 1943
• The disobedient star , Braunschweig 1947
• Das Mondgesicht , Munich 1960 (together with Lilo Fromm )
• The motley kingdom , Munich 1964 (together with Herbert Lentz)
• The sky-blue wooden horse , Munich 1965 (together with Herbert Lentz)
• Peter wants to be a cowboy , Hamburg 1970
• Mumpischel , Zurich [u. a.] 1973 (together with Gisela Degler-Rummel )
• Micha's lantern , Freiburg im Breisgau 1977
• Tschibi and the great sea , Mönchaltorf [u. a.] 1979 (with Bernadette Watts )
• A friend for Thomas , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1981
• One to zero for Pinni , Norderstedt 1985
• The mysterious computer , Norderstedt 1985
• The little gardener , Mönchaltorf / Switzerland [u. a.] 1985 (together with Bernadette Watts )
• Friends all around or Anne goes up the stairs , Düsseldorf 1985 (together with Ingrid-Martha Meffert and Brigitte Smith )
• Mr. Spatzenschreck , Erlangen 1986
• The four lights of the shepherd Simon , Mönchaltorf / Switzerland [u. a.] 1986 (together with Marcus Pfister )
• A donkey goes to Bethlehem , Mönchaltorf [u. a.] 1988 (with Bernadette Watts )
• Dear snowman, where are you going? , Mönchaltorf [u. a.] 1988 (together with Józef Wilkoń )
• Grandma Kathi has a secret , Vienna [u. a.] 1989
• Can I help you, Nicholas? , Gossau, Zurich [u. a.] 1992 (together with Jean-Pierre Corderoc'h)
• The glass ball , Gossau, Zurich [u. a.] 1993 (with Nathalie Duroussy)
• Loretta and the little fairy , Gossau, Zurich [u. a.] 1993 (together with Christa Unzner-Fischer)
• The millet porridge , Gossau, Zurich [u. a.] 1994 (together with Bernadette Watts )
• Little pony play with me , Gossau, Zurich [u. a.] 1994 (together with Jean-Pierre Corderoc'h)
• Mumpelchen also wants to go to the festival , Gossau, Zurich [u. a.] 1995 (together with Youngran Kim-Hohlfeld)
• Florian, what are you doing there? , Gossau, Zurich [u. a.] 1997 (together with Gisela Dürr)
• The new sister , Gossau, Zurich [u. a.] 1999 (together with Christa Unzner)
• Brummi Bear moves into the big wide world , Gossau, Zurich [u. a.] 2001 (together with Božena Jankovska)
• Brummi Bear bakes cakes , Gossau, Zurich [u. a.] 2002 (together with Božena Jankovska)

theatre

• The motley kingdom , Hamburg-La. 1961
• The brave little tailor , Hamburg 1962
• Cinderella , Hamburg-La. 1970
• The Bremen Town Musicians , Hamburg 1970
• Sleeping Beauty , Hamburg 1970
• Mrs. Holle , Hamburg 1970
• König Drosselbart , Hamburg (Langenhorn) 1970
• Little Red Riding Hood , Hamburg 1970
• Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot , Hamburg (Langenhorn) 1970
• The magic spindle , Hamburg 1970
• The clever farmer's daughter , Norderstedt 1975

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerda Marie Scheidl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in NordSüd-Verlag