Hedda Zinner
Hedda Zinner (born May 20, 1905 or 1907 in Lemberg , Galicia or Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † July 4, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German writer , actress , cabaret artist , reciter , journalist , director and radio director .
Life
Hedda Zinner, who published under her maiden name and various pseudonyms (Elisabeth Frank, Hannchen Lobesam, Hedda), was born in Lemberg as the daughter of a civil servant. She attended the drama academy there from 1923 to 1925. Engagements took her to Stuttgart , Baden-Baden , Breslau and Zwickau . In 1928 she married the writer and journalist Fritz Erpenbeck . From 1929 she lived in Berlin, became a member of the KPD , worked as a writer and reciter. She read her own poems at political rallies .
From 1930 she published political-satirical and socially critical poems a. a. in the Rote Fahne , the workers' voice , in the AIZ , in the way of the woman , the magazine for all and the world in the evening . In 1933 she emigrated first to Vienna and then to Prague , where she founded and directed the political cabaret “Studio 1934”; from 1935 she lived with her husband in Moscow in the Soviet Union . She worked as a radio play author and commentator for Radio Moscow and for various literary magazines.
In 1945 she returned to Berlin, where she lived in the eastern part of Berlin-Pankow during the division of the city. She became the director of the radio station (since 1946) and worked as a writer until her death in 1994. Her husband died in 1975. She is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte. Her son is the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck , whose daughter Jenny Erpenbeck is also a writer.
Awards
- 1954 National Prize of the GDR
- 1957 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1959 Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin
- 1960 Lessing Prize of the GDR
- 1974 Lion Feuchtwanger Prize
- 1975 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1980 Karl Marx Order
- 1985 Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
- 1989 National Prize of the GDR 1st class for art and literature
Works
Zinner's early works were satirical-agitational texts that took up everyday life as well as daily political issues. In connection with the work for the "Studio 1934" she turned to the drama; it kept the political topicality. Her play General Landt was a reaction to Carl Zuckmayer's drama Des Teufels General , which she found trivializing. In any case , the protest movement of West German scientists against nuclear war raised a suspicious theme . Furthermore, she took up historical topics (including the wars of liberation against Napoleon, the women's movement and the anti-fascist resistance ). Your trilogy of novels Ahnen und Erben has autobiographical traits.
- Under the roofs. Poems, Moscow 1936.
- That happened , poems, Moscow 1939.
- Folk songs and folk poetry . Reseals, Kiev 1939.
- Café Payer. Play, premiered in 1945. Made in 1940/41. Translates Czech and Hungarian.
- Far and near . Poems, 1947.
- Humanistic sonnet. 1947.
- Everyday life in an unusual country. Reports, short stories and poems, 1950.
- Game into life . Drama, 1951. Translated into Polish and Slovenian.
- The man with the bird. Comedy, 1952.
- Happy women and children . Stories, reports, poems, 1953.
- The vicious circle. Drama, 1953. Translated into French, Czech, Japanese, Chinese.
- We're going to Moscow. Children's book, 1953.
- Just one woman. Novel about Louise Otto-Peters , 1954. Published in Germany in 1984.
- First beginnings. and I'll never forget Stories in: Hammer und Feder , 1955.
- Lützower. Drama, 1955.
- General Landt. Drama, premiered in 1957. Made in 1950/51.
- The judgment. Political review. In: ndl 1958/59.
- What happened if …? Comedy, 1959.
- Definitely suspicious . Drama, 1959.
- Plautus in the nunnery . Retelling as libretto, 1959.
- Fischer in Niezow . Libretto, 1959.
- Performance control. Youth piece, 1960.
- Ravensbrücker Ballad. Tragedy, 1961.
- An American in Berlin. Posse, 1963.
- When love dies Four novellas, 1965.
- Elisabeth Trowe. Movie narration, 1969.
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Ancestors and heirs. Novel trilogy.
- Regina. 1968.
- The sisters. 1970.
- Fini. 1973.
- We speak out what is. Studio 1934. In: Erlebte Geschichte , Volume 2, 1972, ed. by Günter Albrecht.
- On the red carpet. Experiences, thoughts, impressions, 1978.
- Katja. Roman, 1980. (FRG 1981)
- The solution. Roman, 1981.
- Arrangement with death. Roman, 1984. (FRG 1985)
- The great impatience. Story 1988.
- Self-questioning. Memoirs 1989, ISBN 3-371-00195-4 .
Film adaptations
- 1956: The vicious circle , directed by Carl Ballhaus
- 1958: Just a Woman , Directed by Carl Ballhaus
- 1960: What if ...? , Director: Gerhard Klingenberg
- 1962: Die aus der 12b , director: Rudi Kurz (film adaptation of performance control )
- 1972: Lützower , director: Werner W. Wallroth
- 1988: The actress , directed by Siegfried Kühn
Radio plays
- 1945: Ernst Fischer : Das singende Knöchlein - director ( Berliner Rundfunk )
- 1946: Hedda Zinner: That happened n - director and speaker (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1947: John Boynton Priestley : The Foreign City - adaptation and direction (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1947: Hedda Zinner: Earth - Director (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1954: Johannes R. Becher : The Winter Battle - director ( GDR radio )
- 1955: Anna Seghers : The Seventh Cross - director (GDR radio)
literature
- Zinner, Hedda : In: Lexicon of socialist German literature . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1964, pp. 563-565.
- Simone Barck : Hedda Zinner . In: Literature of the German Democratic Republic . Volume 3. Volk and Wiisen, Berlin 1987, pp. 530-547 and pp. 639-643.
- Uta Klaedtke, Martina Ölke: Remember and invent. GDR authors and 'Jewish identity' (Hedda Zinner, Monika Maron , Barbara Honigmann ) . In: Ariane Huml (ed.): Jewish intellectuals in the 20th century . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2003. ISBN 3-8260-2310-2 , pp. 249-274.
- Bernd-Rainer Barth , Peter Erler : Zinner, Hedda . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Jana Rahders: Can you deny the truth all your life? The socialist worldview of the GDR author Hedda Zinner . In: Siegfried Lokatis (Ed.): From the author to the censorship file. Adventure in reading country GDR . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2014, pp. 73–80.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hedda Zinner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Hedda Zinner in the German Digital Library
- Entry on Hedda Zinner at litkult1920er.aau.at , a project of the University of Klagenfurt
- Biography and photos at "Künstlerkolonie Berlin e.V." ( Memento from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Hedda Zinner Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
References and comments
- ↑ ЦИ́ННЕР (Zinner), Хедда , FEB
- ^ Biographical databases - Zinner, Hedda , bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de
- ^ Valentina Choschewa: "VOICE OF RUSSIA celebrates 85th anniversary" . In: “Voice of Russia, October 28, 2014”. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
- ^ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 336 ff.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Zinner, Hedda |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, actress, cabaret artist, reciter, journalist and radio director |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1905 or May 20, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv , Galicia |
DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1994 |
Place of death | Berlin , Germany |