Hanna-Heide Kraze

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Hanna-Heide Kraze (born September 22, 1920 in Berlin ; † March 28, 2008 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Hanna-Heide Kraze was the daughter of a pharmacist . For health reasons, she was only able to attend regular schools sporadically; she received private tuition and also acquired her knowledge through self-study . From 1937 she wrote columnist articles for newspapers and magazines. In 1945 she went to Schwerin , where she worked in a cigarette factory, as a secretary and kindergarten teacher, but also continued to write for newspapers such as the Mecklenburgische Volksstimme . She joined the CDU and was a union member . In 1950 she moved back to Berlin , where she held leading positions in the GDR Writers' Association and had worked as a freelance writer since 1952 . From 1957 to 1961 she was a city ​​councilor for the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg . In the 1960s she held a number of functions in GDR organizations, including a. she was deputy chairwoman of the women's commission of the Eastern CDU , member of the federal executive committee of the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany and from 1969 deputy chairwoman of the Berlin district association in the GDR writers' association .

Hanna-Heide Kraze was the author of novels , short stories , children's books and poems . It represented a current in GDR literature that, based on a basic Christian-humanist conviction , tried to create a link with the socialist state ideology of the GDR . Kraze was first known through her youth books , the most successful of which is the Joß-Fritz novel about the Bundschuh movement Des executioner's brother . Her novel, “ Üb Always Treu und Righteousness” ..., which deals with the resurgence of anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic , is formally clearly influenced by Wolfgang Koeppen's novels and Heinrich Böll's House without Guardians . In the field of poetry , Kraze (in the volume of poetry Der du nach Babel pulled ) used experimental forms that were unusual for GDR literature of the early 1960s.

Hanna-Heide Kraze had been a member of the GDR Writers' Association since 1950 and belonged to the European authors' association "Die Kogge" and the " Regensburg Writers' Group International ". She received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1958 and the same award in silver in 1980.

Works

  • "... and looking for a home" , Rostock 1949
  • There is a way to Schwerin 1950
  • The executioner's brother , Berlin 1956
  • The red point , Berlin 1959
  • The world becomes white for harvest , Berlin 1959
  • Who moved to Babel , Berlin 1960
  • Secret letters , Berlin 1960
  • The lost new year , Berlin 1963
  • We'd like to buy seven, seven things , Berlin 1964 (together with Erika Klein)
  • Always practice faithfulness and honesty ... , Berlin 1965
  • Throwing stones , Berlin 1969
  • The world is reflected in the raindrop , Berlin 1975
  • Babel , Stuttgart 1978
  • Hours with white sails , Berlin 1978
  • Before it's marriage , Berlin 1981

Editing

literature

  • Hanna-Heide Kraze: From the tiny piece of evidence . In: wanted. 22 authors about themselves . With an afterword by Karl Bongardt. 1st edition. Union Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 225-229 .

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