Ingeborg Lohfink

Ingeborg Lohfink (born April 26, 1931 in Greifswald ) is a German writer , poet and publicist . Her work particularly includes historical works and novels with a local reference to the Western Pomerania region .

Life

Ingeborg Lohfink was born in Greifswald in 1931 and initially completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale clerk after attending school . After a corresponding further training, she later worked as a medical-technical X-ray assistant . She has been a writer and journalist since 1979 and has published eleven books to date. For her work she received the Johann Heinrich Voss Medal in gold, the Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal and the Medal of Honor of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald, among others .

Since 1974 she has also been active in animal welfare on a voluntary basis . In March 1990 she founded the Vorpommern Animal Welfare Association and in February 1992 a cat house on the site of the decommissioned Lubmin nuclear power plant near Greifswald . From July 1992 to March 1999 she was a member of the Animal Welfare Advisory Board of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Ministry of Agriculture .

Works

Homeland literature

• My Pomeranian Book. Hinstorff Verlag , Rostock 1991. ISBN 3-356-00404-2
• My loyal Arndt, my brave Schill. Pomeranian fates. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1992. ISBN 3-356-00486-7
• Mallow. Stories from Pomerania and elsewhere. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2002. ISBN 3-356-00524-3
• Western Pomerania. Encounters with the land by the sea. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2002. ISBN 3-356-00418-2
• Brückner in Mecklenburg. The search for paradise. Verlag JJ Augustin , Glückstadt 2011. ISBN 978-3-87030-904-6

Novels

• Gisi Süd and the Glass Flower. Axel-Diedrich-Verlag, Peenemünde 1995. ISBN 3-930066-27-0
• The Greifswald woman. Axel-Dietrich-Verlag, Peenemünde 1997. ISBN 3-930066-48-3

Poetry

• Go through the night. Axel-Dietrich-Verlag, Peenemünde 2000. ISBN 3-930066-65-3
• Rügen poems. Verlag Augustin, Glückstadt 2004. ISBN 3-87030-133-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Ingeborg Lohfink in the catalog of the German National Library