Lia Pirskawetz

Lia Pirskawetz (born December 2, 1938 in Libau / Latvia) is a German writer .

Life

She studied Slavic and English studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After completing her studies, she worked as an editor at Volk und Welt publishing house . Lia Pirskawetz has been a freelance writer and translator in Berlin since 1965 . She has translated numerous novels, short stories and dramas from Russian. With her radio feature Indian Summer or To the Most Beautiful Spot on Earth , Lia Pirskawetz said in an interview in 2001, she consciously campaigned for the establishment of nature parks in the GDR.

Works

Radio plays

1973: Spinnen-Palaver - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
1974: Vox Humana - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
1975: My white mountains
1976: Das Haus am Park - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
1977: With the devil in the wind
1980: Stille Post - Director: Horst Liepach (Biography - Broadcasting of the GDR)
1984: The fisherman and his soul

Radio feature

1989: Indian Summer or To the Most Beautiful Spot on Earth - Director: Hannelore Solter

Movies

1974: Our daily beer
1976: The trout

Books

1985: The silent reason. Novel. Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben (2nd edition 1986, ISBN 3-355-00254-2 )
1990: Indian summer. California travel sketches. Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben. ISBN 3-355-01051-0

Awards

1981: GDR radio play award in the category radio play critic award
1999: Erwin Strittmatter Prize

literature

Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11019338-1 . Volume 3, p. 1020 f.

Web links

Literature by and about Lia Pirskawetz in the catalog of the German National Library
Lia Pirskawetz in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Lia Pirskawetz speaks of "surreptitious advertising". Your radio feature Indian Summer or To the Most Beautiful Spots on Earth was originally broadcast on Radio DDR II on May 21, 1989 . Patrick Conley: The partisan journalist. Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-050-9 , p. 106.

personal data
SURNAME	Pirskawetz, Lia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Libau

[1] Lia Pirskawetz speaks of "surreptitious advertising". Your radio feature Indian Summer or To the Most Beautiful Spots on Earth was originally broadcast on Radio DDR II on May 21, 1989 . Patrick Conley: The partisan journalist. Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-050-9 , p. 106.