Ilse von Bredow

Grave stele of Ilse Countess von Bredow in the maiden cemetery of the Uetersen monastery

Ilse Countess von Bredow (born July 5, 1922 in Teichenau , Silesia , † April 20, 2014 in Hamburg ) was a German writer .

biography

She grew up as the third and youngest child of Sigismund Graf von Bredow and his wife Ursula, née von Lieres and Wilkau, in the forester's house in Lochow in the Havelland and later attended boarding school . During the Second World War she was in the Reich Labor Service . Shortly before the end of the war, her family fled Brandenburg to Lower Saxony . She lived in Hamburg since the early 1950s .

Countess von Bredow worked as a freelance worker for newspapers and magazines and wrote reports and short stories . Their origins are reflected in many of their works.

Her first book “Kartoffeln mit Stippe” was published by Scherz Verlag in 1979, had several editions and was filmed in 1990 by ZDF as a three-part series.

Works

Fiction

• A St. Bernard named Möpschen and other memories of a happy childhood in the Mark Brandenburg region . New edition Weltbild-Verlag, Augsburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86800-622-3 .
• Potatoes with speck. A childhood in the Märkische Heide . Piper, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-492-22915-9 . As Goldmann Taschenbuch 1982, ISBN 3-442-06393-0 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from April 2 to August 26, 1979 )
• You're gonna get your wedges. Girls' memories of a lost home . Piper, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-492-22916-6 .
• A miss from and to. Stories from completely normal circles . Piper, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-492-22912-3 .
• Lucky children. Novel of a noble family from Brandenburg . Piper, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-492-22913-1 .
• The sparrow in hand. Novel . Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-22917-4 .
• Do you want to be happy in life ... stories from yesterday, stories from today . Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-24982-9 .
• Because angels live next door. Return to the Markische Heide; Novel . Scherz Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-502-11076-X .
• Me and my grandma and love. Christmas stories . Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-492-24815-0 .
• The lucky guy and other survival stories . Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-24087-9 .
• Because in autumn, the leaves fall - thunder! Country stories . Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-492-24483-1 .
• Nobility at its finest. Amusing stories from high society . Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-24484-8 .
• What pleases the heart . Scherz Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-502-11041-5 .
• The hearing aid in an azalea . Piper, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-25950-7 .
• My body is so antisocial . Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-30582-2 .

Non-fiction

• "Pour water into the soup, welcome everyone". My childhood kitchen in summer . Scherz Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-502-11083-2 .
• My childhood kitchen. Stories and recipes . Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-24017-8 .

Film adaptations

• Gabriele Unterberg (director): A St. Bernard named Möpschen. 1996 (based on the novel of the same name)
• Franz Josef Gottlieb (Director): Potatoes with Stippe 1990 (three-part television film based on the novel of the same name)

literature

• Alexandra zu Knyphausen: The old people will still be surprised. She came from the Mark Brandenburg by bike, landed in Hamburg - and wrote bestsellers . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Vol. 50 (1997), No. 297 of 20/21. December.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ilse von Bredow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Review of your book "Adel vom Feinsten" in the Märkische Allgemeine from October 11, 2005 (last two paragraphs of the article)
• A loyal hand. In: The world . March 22, 2002. (Article about her sister and Gut Lochow)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ilse von Bredow. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 118, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
2. ↑ consists of the parts "The inheritance", "Love has many faces" and "All that glitters is not gold"
3. ↑ Ilse von Bredow in the Internet Movie Database (English)