Gigi Martin

Gigi Martin (born September 29, 1935 in Munich ) is a German writer and journalist who is best known for her erotic novels and short stories .

Life

Gigi Martin grew up in Hamburg . She received dance training and took acting lessons from Ida Ehre . In 1953 she made her debut as an actress at Hamburger Theater 53 , a small private theater that specialized in productions by contemporary authors. Subsequently, she also played small film roles (e.g. in Young Man, Who Can Do Everything , 1957, with Georg Thomalla in the leading role) and worked as a mannequin and model . In later years she worked as a journalist in France and as a copywriter for advertising agencies.

Martin was one of the first women authors who followed up on the tradition of the lesbian romance novel in Germany after the Second World War . Already her first novel Pass over if you can ... ( 1960 ) depicts the love of a 17-year-old girl for her friend. The work, for which the prominent literary critic Willy Haas wrote a foreword, caused a sensation, was published several times and translated into Dutch.

Works

• Go by if you can ... , Stuttgart 1960, Dutch edition: Loop door en kijk niet om ... , Assen 1961
• In love with Positano , Hamburg 1960
• The girl next door , Preetz / Holstein 1961
• Love glass fruits , Frankfurt / Main 1983
• The mistress , Berlin 1988
• Rendezvous , Munich 1989
• The paradise behind our door , Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-4130-5
• Walls of Veils of Solitude , Berlin 2010

literature

• Klaus W. Pietrek: The mistress, novel by Gigi Martin, in: Lexicon of erotic literature , ed. by Almut Oetjen, Meitingen: Corian Verlag Heinrich Wimmer, basic work (January 1992), ISBN 3-89048-050-0
• Heike Schader: Gigi Martin on the Cote d'Azur. The Hamburg writer and journalist and her contract with the 'Revue' in 1961, in: Invertito 8 (2006), pp. 169–185, ISBN 978-3-939542-00-1
• Heike Schader: Gigi Martin - her life told between fiction and reality, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86805-575-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Gigi Martin in the catalog of the German National Library