Katharina Kammer-Veken

Katharina Kammer-Veken (born September 29, 1920 in Chemnitz as Hildegard Luise Hoheisel ; † September 28, 2017 there ) was a German writer.

Life

The daughter of a working-class family attended elementary school in Chemnitz , learned the profession of secretary at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (from 1953 Chemnitz Chamber of Commerce and Industry ) and remained a stenographer in her training company until the birth of a daughter in 1943. From 1949 Kammer-Veken worked as a new teacher . In 1955/56 she studied at the "Johannes R. Becher" literature institute in Leipzig.

In 1956 she married Karl Veken and settled with him as a freelance writer in Augustusburg . Since its first publication, the story Weg ohne Wahl , which appeared in First Harvest - An Anthology of Young Authors in 1953 by the Neues Leben Berlin publishing house , it has been called Katharina Kammer, later Katharina Kammer-Veken. Her work includes novels, short stories, children's books and screenplays.

Katharina Kammer-Veken was a member of the German Writers 'Association DSV (from November 1973 Writers' Association of the GDR ) since it was founded. After its dissolution in 1990, it belonged to the Saxon Writers' Association, which existed until 2015.

From 1990 until her death Katharina Kammer-Veken lived and worked as a freelance writer in Flöha . She died in 2017 the day before her 97th birthday.

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Books

Nico and Anita - A children's novel , Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1958
The difference , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Saale 1959
Micki Mager , (together with Karl Veken) Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1966
Die unromantische Annerose , (together with Karl Veken), Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1966 / Buchclub 65, Berlin 1966
The legacy of the parents , New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1969
Confessions for my stepson , Verlag am Park, Berlin 2005

Scripts

The leaded glass window (together with Horst Zaeske), TV film, GDR 1983
The chain , TV film, GDR 1986

literature

Lexicon of German-speaking writers from the beginning to the present , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, Leipzig 1974

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Klaus Walther : A life without choice - author Katharina Kammer-Veken is dead . In: Freie Presse from September 29, 2017, p. A2.
↑ Katharina Kammer-Veken. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , pp. 476–477.

personal data
SURNAME	Kammer-Veken, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hoheisel, Hildegard Luise (maiden name); Chamber, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH	28th September 2017
Place of death	Chemnitz

[1] Klaus Walther : A life without choice - author Katharina Kammer-Veken is dead . In: Freie Presse from September 29, 2017, p. A2.

[2] Katharina Kammer-Veken. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , pp. 476–477.