Jeanne Stern

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Jeanne and Kurt Stern on March 29, 1967 in East Berlin

Jeanne Stern , née Machin (born August 20, 1908 in Bedous , France , † December 29, 1998 in Berlin ) was a translator and screenwriter.

Life

Jeanne Stern was born into a working-class family. After graduating from high school, she went to Bad Pyrmont as an au pair and later to Berlin. There she then studied German. She earned her living by taking French lessons. In Berlin she also met her future husband Kurt Stern and through him came into contact with the German labor movement. In 1932 they went to Paris together and got married there. In 1934 she joined the French Communist Party . After 1936 she worked for the press agency of the Spanish republican government in Paris. In 1942 she emigrated to Mexico. There she took part in events organized by the Free Germany Movement and the Heinrich Heine Club .

She returned to Paris in the summer of 1946, but went on to Germany with her husband in 1947. She joined the SED in 1946 and later worked as a translator. Together with her husband Kurt Stern, she wrote several DEFA films. They lived in a single-family house in the street 201 , the so-called intelligence settlement , in Berlin-Schönholz .

Jeanne Stern was buried next to her husband in the Pankow III cemetery.

Film scripts

Awards

literature

  • Gottfried Hamacher. With the assistance of André Lohmar: Against Hitler - Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement: short biographies . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin. Volume 53. ISBN 3-320-02941-X ( PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Lingner Foundation: Intelligence settlement
  2. ^ Heinrich Mann Prize
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Jeanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Machin, Jeanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Translator and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedous , France
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1998
Place of death Berlin