Heide Wendland
Heide Wendland , actually Annemarie Herold , née Annemarie Hunger (born December 15, 1924 in Dresden ) is a German writer and children's and young adult book author.
Life
She comes from a working-class family and was a professional teacher. Together with her husband, the writer and poet Gottfried Herold (born May 8, 1929) , who came from Weißbach in Upper Lusatia , she became known as an author of books for children and young people. She also wrote her own novels and adventure stories. Her first novel was published in 1954 by Kinderbuchverlag Berlin with an edition of 10,000 copies and was entitled Die Wetterfrösche . It was illustrated with drawings by Ingeborg Meyer-Rey. Some of Heide Wendland's books appeared in several large editions.
In 2014 she celebrated her 90th birthday in Dresden-Blasewitz .
Works (selection)
- Comedian without a mask. Story about Friederike Caroline Neuber called Neuberin. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1957.
- Mamayauk. Novel by an Eskimo girl. Holz, Berlin 1960.
- Man cannot be alone. Novel. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1961.
- with Gottfried Herold and Gisela Neumann (illustrations): Follow me unobtrusively or argue about Struwwelpeter . The children's book publisher, Berlin 1976 (= The Little Trumpeter Books, Vol. 107)
- Mountain without mercy. Adventure narration. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle-Leipzig 1980.
- with Gottfried Herold and Bernd Günther (illustrations): A damn beautiful nest. A reader about Dresden and its surroundings . The children's book publisher, Berlin 1989.
- with Christa Unzner (illustrations): Legends and fairy tales from Saxony. Altberliner Verlag, Berlin et al. 1995.
- with Gottfried Herold: A damn beautiful nest. Dresden history in twelve letters from friends from L. (Freund), (Dresden) 2006.
literature
- Kurt Böttcher (Ed.): Lexicon of German-speaking writers. From the beginning to the present . Volume 1. A - K. 3rd edition Leipzig 1974, p. 359.
- German Literature Lexicon: Biographical-Bibliographical Manual , Vol. 20, 2000.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wendland, heath |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herold, Annemarie (real name); Hunger, Annemarie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and author of books for children and young people |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |