Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß

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Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß, 1953
Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß, 1964

Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß (born February 22, 1918 in Breslau ; †  May 28, 2000 in Leipzig ) was a German writer .

Life

Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß 'grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß was the daughter of a Prussian officer and a mother of French descent. She attended a lyceum , but was expelled from school shortly before graduating from school for taking sides with Jewish friends. She then graduated from business school and then trained as a singer . During the Second World War she worked as a bank clerk. In spring 1945 she fled Breslau , first to Bad Warmbrunn and in 1947 to Leipzig . There she initially worked as an accountant . She has lived as a freelance writer in Leipzig since the early 1950s . From 1967 to 1976 she was an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR under the code name "Bettina" or "Bettina Schreiber" .

Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß 'work includes novels , short stories , children's books , poems and song texts , television scripts and texts for the Leipziger Pfeffermühle cabaret . Her novel, an artist's marriage, Whom the stones answer, is based on the reconstruction of the Dresden Zwinger , while the strongly autobiographical books Schlesisches Himmelreich and Fisch auf dem Branches describe the development of a young woman from a conservative Silesian milieu from the 1920s until she moved to the GDR Late 1940s. In her last novel, Schlußstrich , which was much discussed at the time , the author deals with the subject of alcoholism . Rauchfuß 'lyrics were interpreted by Gisela May and the GDR band City ( Am Fenster ) , among others .

Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß belonged to the GDR Writers ' Association since 1950 and to the GDR Journalists' Association since 1975 . She received the following awards, among others: the City of Leipzig Art Prize in 1963 , the Johannes R. Becher Medal in 1973 , the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1979 and the GDR III National Prize in 1986 . Art and literature class.

Works

  • Fair and other stories , Leipzig 1949
  • The reed green dress and other stories , Leipzig 1949
  • Thunderstorm over a large river , Leipzig 1952
  • Whom the stones answer , Halle (Saale) 1953
  • Defeated shadows , Halle (Saale) 1954
  • Fräulein Rosenzeh and other fairy tales, Berlin 1959
  • The light falls so differently , Halle (Saale) 1959
  • The white and black lambs , Halle (Saale) 1959
  • The green streets , Halle / Saale 1963
  • Silesian Kingdom of Heaven , Leipzig 1968
  • Try little love. Poems, songs and chansons, Henschelverlag, Berlin 1970
  • Headers , Leipzig 1974
  • Was I too tactless, Felix? , Leipzig 1976
  • Fish on the branches , hall u. a. 1980
  • With the left foot first , Halle u. a. 1984
  • Schlußstrich , Halle u. a. 1986
  • Two poems , Leipzig 1998 (together with Volker Pfüller )

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personal data
SURNAME Rauchfuß, Hildegard Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw , now Poland
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2000
Place of death Leipzig