Gisela Heller
Gisela Heller , née Hielscher (born August 6, 1929 in Breslau ), is a German editor and writer .
Life
Gisela Heller spent childhood and youth with two siblings in the green belt around Wroclaw . The father was a garden architect. When Breslau was declared a fortress in January 1945 , they had to flee and ended up in the village of Threna near Leipzig at the end of the war . There she worked for farmers for potatoes and bread, took private lessons with a professor emeritus and cleaned for French lessons with a bombed-out music publisher. Through their advocacy, she received a place at the German Booksellers College in Leipzig in 1946.
This was followed in 1947 by an internship at the newly founded Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR). There she used special courses in literary, art, music and theater history, for languages and speech training, specially set up for young employees. She also took acting lessons, learned Russian and heard “black” philosophy from Litt and “sociology in 19th century literature” from Mayer . 1948-50 she worked as an editor for the school radio. She came to Weimar through marriage to the late returnee from Russia, actor and radio reporter Hans Heller. In 1951 she gave birth to a daughter. In 1952 she came to Berlin for the German broadcaster, entertainment department. In 1954, after the birth of her second daughter, she was still working as a freelancer. a. for the portrait series of famous German women.
From 1956 she was a correspondent for the German broadcaster with reports from everyday life between the Baltic Sea, Havel and Elbe. In 1962, after the birth of her third child, she worked as a freelancer for television radio as an editor for “Gefilmten Brehm” and as an author for “Wünsch Dir was”, travel reports and film features. From 1970 she wrote and moderated for Radio DDR, Sender Potsdam, features and feuilletons on the topic of Brandenburgica.
Private
Gisela Heller was married to Hans Heller, who was employed by the radio in the GDR . Both met during a report. They separated in 1956. Gisela Heller lived in Kleinmachnow until shortly after the reunification . Today she lives in Teltow . Gisela Heller was married to the athlete , sports officer and engineer-economist Martin Schoelzgen until his death in 2010. Because of the marriage, she has been called Gisela Heller-Schoelzgen since then.
plant
Gisela Heller made about 500 hours of broadcasts on topics from Brandenburg-Prussian history. They were the basis on which her books were later built: “Märkischer Bilderbogen”, “Neuer Märkischer Bilderbogen” and “Potsdamer Stories” reached a circulation of 250,000 in GDR times and were sold out in a few weeks.
An almost finished manuscript "Reisen zu Fontane" was able to save her after the fall of the Wall. It was published by Nicolai in Berlin in 1992 with the title "Unterwegs mit Fontane in Berlin and Mark Brandenburg" and in 1995 "Unterwegs mit Fontane from the Baltic Sea to the Danube". In 1998, on the 100th anniversary of Theodor Fontane's death, she put his wife Emilie Fontane in perspective in the biographical story “Beloved Man of the Heart”.
Gisela Heller's lectures on personalities from Brandenburg-Prussian history, but above all on Fontane and his socio-cultural environment, were and are still in demand today.
Awards
In 1976 and 1989 she received the Fontane Prize of the Potsdam district , in 1986 the Art Prize of the GDR and other silver and gold badges of honor for outstanding local history and cultural-political achievements.
Publications
- Märkischer Bilderbogen , Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1976, 1981, 1st edition 105,000 copies
- Havelland seen through the eyes of love , Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig, 1981, 1983
- Potsdam Stories , Verlag der Nation, Berlin, 1984, 1986, 1988, 75,000 copies
- Neuer Märkischer Bilderbogen , Verlag der Nation, Berlin, 1st edition, 1986, 1988, ISBN 3-373-00113-7
- Potsdam stories , re-edited as a paperback, arani-Verlag, Berlin, 1993, ISBN 3-7605-8650-3
- On the way with Fontane in Berlin & the Mark Brandenburg , Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, ISBN 3-87584-401-7
- On the way with Fontane from the Baltic Sea to the Danube , Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin, 1995, ISBN 3-87584-556-0
- Geliebter Herzensmann , Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin, 1998, 3rd edition 1999, ISBN 3-87584-691-5 , further editions as paperback from S. Fischer, Frankfurt and 2010 from W. Stapp, Berlin
- With luck in life: Silesian childhood, Saxon youth , Bergstadtverlag, Würzburg, 2007, ISBN 978-3870572815
- Altmark-Blätter , 1994, 1998, Märkische Allgemeine 1992, Berliner Morgenpost and Tagesspiegel 1998
- Fontaneblätter , issue 55/1993, issue 63/1997, issue 68/1999
- Edition Luisenstadt , 1998
- Meine Errungen, Verrungen , Edition digital, Pinnow, 2020, ISBN 978-3965210233
Web links
- Literature by and about Gisela Heller in the catalog of the German National Library
- 90th birthday on August 6, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heller, Gisela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hielscher, Gisela (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German editor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |