Lilo Hardel

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Lilo Hardel received an award for children's literature from Alexander Abusch in 1954

Lilo Hardel (born June 22, 1914 in Berlin ; † August 26, 1999 in Nonnevitz ) was a German writer .

Life

Lilo Hardel was the daughter of a locksmith . After joining the Socialist Student Union in 1928 and the Communist Youth Association of Germany in 1931 , she had to leave school in 1933. From 1933 to 1936 she stayed in exile in France and worked as a gymnastics teacher in Paris . In 1936 she returned to Berlin , where she worked as a typist ; In addition, she was active in the resistance against National Socialism . She married Gerhard Hardel and lived with him in Kronach ( Bavaria ), later in Western Pomerania . After the end of the Second World War the Hardels went to East Berlin , where Lilo Hardel worked for the school radio . Since the early 1950s she lived as a freelance writer with her husband in Strausberg near Berlin .

Lilo Hardel's work, which was widely read in the GDR, consists of children's and young people's books , mostly in a cheerful tone , which were clearly loyal to the SED party line .

Lilo Hardel was a member of the GDR Writers' Association . In addition to numerous awards by the Ministry of Culture of the GDR she received in 1968 together with Gerhard Hardel a national price of the GDR . In 1980 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit and in 1984 the Alex Wedding Prize .

Lilo Hardel died in the Dransker district of Nonnevitz on Rügen .

Works

  • Pieps and Hanna , Berlin 1952
  • The cheeky Max , Berlin 1953
  • The shy Lottchen , Berlin 1953
  • Max and Lottchen at school , Berlin 1955
  • Otto and the magician Faulebaul , Berlin 1956 (together with Ingeborg Friebel)
  • Karla's great journey , Berlin 1957
  • The thing with the echo , Berlin 1957
  • Theater in the small town , Berlin 1959
  • The eight ravens , Berlin 1964
  • The girl from Wiederau , Berlin 1964
  • The funny Susanne , Berlin 1968
  • Susanne in Märzdorf , Berlin before 1974, Der Kinderbuchverlag
  • Nadja, my darling , Berlin 1975
  • Emeli, the dinosaur child , Berlin 1977
  • Mariechens Apfelbaum tells about his life , Berlin 1979
  • Hannchen's dreams , Berlin 1984
  • Das Schwein Rosa , Berlin 1988 (together with Johannes KG Niedlich)

literature

  • Anna Stüssi: Hardel, Lilo . In: Heinz Rupp, Carl Ludwig Lang (ed.): German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical handbook , founded by Wilhelm Kosch. 3rd edition Francke Verlag, Bern / Munich 1979, 7th volume: Haab – Hogrebe, Sp. 321/322
  • The girl from Berlin . Berlin 1983

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Grüttner : Students in the Third Reich. Paderborn 1995, pp. 452-455.
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , March 7, 1980, p. 4

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personal data
SURNAME Hardel, Lilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1999
Place of death Dranske