Leonie Ossowski

Leonie Ossowski (2007)

Leonie Ossowski , pseudonym for Jolanthe von Brandenstein (born August 15, 1925 in Röhrsdorf , Fraustadt district , Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia ; † February 4, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German writer . She also wrote under the pseudonym Jo Tiedemann .

Life

Jolanthe von Brandenstein was born in 1925 as one of four daughters of the landowner Lothar von Brandenstein (1893–1953) and the writer Ruth von Ostau (1899–1966). Her older sister was the actress Yvonne Merin (1921–2012).

At the end of the war, Ossowski fled her home in what is now Poland via Bad Salzungen to Hesse ; later a move to Upper Swabia followed . She worked in a factory, in a photo lab and as an office assistant. In 1958 she moved to Mannheim with her family . In the 1970s she worked as a social worker , looked after young people in prison and set up a shared apartment for young people released from prison . In 1980 she moved to Berlin (West) . She lived with her third husband from 1978 to 1993, then divorced and lived alone ever since. She had seven children, including the theologian Louis-Ferdinand von Zobeltitz .

pseudonym

In the early 1950s she began to write short stories under the pseudonym Leonie Ossowski . Ossowski means "from Osowa" or "coming from Osowa"; Osowa Sień is the Polish name of the place where she was born.

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During a visit to the GDR in 1953, DEFA commissioned her to write a script. This resulted in the feature film Two Mothers made by Frank Beyer , which premiered on June 28, 1957. In 1958 she published the novel Stern ohne Himmel in the GDR . Her first novel was published in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1968. Since then she has published non-fiction as well as short stories and wrote screenplays and plays.

In 1980 the film Weichselkirschen was shot in the town where she was born, based on a script by Ossowski with the participation of numerous Polish actors.

2005 her novel was The beautiful presence of Christine Kabisch from a screenplay by Gabriela Zerhau for television under the title new friends, new luck filmed.

In 2013 Lih Janowitz premiered the film portrait of Leonie Ossowski .

Ossowski was a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Tombstone ordered with foresight in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin. Image from July 2017

All of her novels and books for young people draw attention to social and socio-political issues, combining the past and the present.

Awards

• 1973: Honorable recognition at the Adolf Grimme Prize for meeting point 72: The Kippe - suspended for probation
• 1977: Oldenburg Children's and Young People's Book Prize for Die große Flatter
• 1978: Buxtehuder Bulle for Stern ohne Himmel
• 1980: Adolf Grimme Prize with silver for the screenplay for the film Die große Flatter (together with Marianne Lüdcke )
• 1981: Culture Prize Silesia of the State of Lower Saxony for sour cherries
• 1982: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1982: Schiller Prize of the City of Mannheim for her complete works
• 1985: Brothers Grimm Prize of the State of Berlin with the GRIPS Theater Berlin for the play Voll auf der Rolle
• 2006: Hermann Kesten Medal
• 2007: Well deserved for Polish culture
• 2014: Andreas Gryphius Prize

Works

Novels and short stories

• Star without a sky , 1958 (filmed in 1980)
• Who is afraid of the black man? , Novel, 1968
• Mannheim stories , 1974
• Weichselkirschen , Roman, 1976 (1st part of the Silesia Trilogy)
• The big flutter , novel, 1977 (filmed in 1979)
• Flowers for Magritte , Tales, 1978
• Love is not an argument , novel, 1981
• Wilhelm Meister's Farewell , novel, 1982
• Littel makes a decision and other narratives , 1983
• In addition to tenderness , novel, 1984
• Wolfsbeeren , Roman, 1987 (2nd part of the Silesia Trilogy)
• The tin paradise , 1988
• Weckel's Fear , 1991
• Elder time , Roman, Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1991 (3rd part of the Silesia trilogy)
• No talk of violence. Two stories, 1992
• The Realtor , Roman, 1994
• Mr. Rudolfs legacy , Roman, Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1997 as Heyne Taschenbuch, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-13756-6 .
• The Servants' Room , Roman, 1999
• The beautiful present , novel, 2001
• Espenlaub , Roman, 2003
• The one-armed angel , novel, 2004

Scripts

• 1957: two mothers
• 1971: Crime scene: On the open road
• 1979: sour cherries
• 1979: The big flutter
• 1980: Star without a sky
• 1985: Fully on the roll
• 1991: No talk of violence

Non-fiction

• Suspended on probation. Report on attempts at collective probation . Piper, Munich 1972
• The lion in the tin paradise. A re-encounter . Piper, Munich 2003 (about a reunion with Lower Silesia and memories of flight and displacement)

literature

• Rolf Esser: Literature card index for the youth book by Leonie Ossowski 'Die große Flatter'.
• Ekkehart Mittelberg and Herbert Fuchs: Interpretation and lesson plans for Leonie Ossowski: The big flutter. Hirschgraben-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984. ISBN 3-454-50101-6 .
• Paweł Zimniak: The lost time in the lost realm. Christine Brückner's family saga and Leonie Ossowski's family chronicle. Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Pedagogicznej, Zielona Góra 1996. ISBN 83-86832-13-4 .
• Elwira Pachura: Poland - the lost homeland. On the homeland problem with Horst Bienek, Leonie Ossowski, Christa Wolf, Christine Brückner. Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-89821-205-X .
• Kerstin Dötsch: Leonie Ossowski. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon . 3rd, completely revised edition. 18. Vol. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , Vol. 12, pp. 398-400.

Web links

Commons : Leonie Ossowski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Leonie Ossowski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Leonie Ossowski in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Fraustadt district came to the Province of Silesia in 1938 and to the Province of Lower Silesia in 1941.
2. ↑ Writer Leonie Ossowski dies ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Message in Ruhr Nachrichten of February 4, 2019, accessed on February 4, 2019. 
3. ^ Leonie Ossowski. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 684.
4. ↑ Portrait at munzinger.de.
5. ↑ Roswitha Budeus-Budde: Flight and Reconciliation. The youth novelist Leonie Ossowski turns 90 . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 13, 2015, p. 11.
6. ↑ Two mothers on defa-stiftung.de
7. ↑ http://www.deutsches-filmhaus.de/filme_einzeln/g_einzeln/guenther_michael/ Weichselkirschen.htm
8. ↑ New friends, new luck (2005) . In IMDb.com , accessed February 6, 2019.
9. ^ Leonie Ossowski (2013) . In IMDb.com , accessed February 6, 2019.
10. ^ Andreas Gryphius Prize of the Esslingen Artists' Guild . Retrieved August 18, 2018.
11. ↑ Available from: http://www.unterricht-aktiv.de/deutsch.htm#Menschen_im_Abseits .