Lisa Heiss

Lisa Heiss (also: Ly Heiss ; * February 2, 1897 in Stuttgart as Elisabeth Katharina Heiss ; † March 15, 1981 in Mainz ) was a German writer .

Life

Lisa Heiss attended the Königin-Katharina-Stift-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. During the First World War she worked for the press office of the German Red Cross . From 1918 to 1921 she studied economics at the Hohenheim Agricultural University and at the University of Heidelberg .

After their marriage in 1923, she moved to the United States with her husband in 1925 . The couple lived in New York until 1932 , where Heiss worked in the purchasing department of a department store and also wrote his first radio plays . After the couple returned to Germany, she worked as a freelancer for the Reichsender Stuttgart ; from 1939 she lived as a freelance writer in Stuttgart. After 1945 Lisa Heiss made numerous trips, a. a. 1964 to India . She has been based in Mainz since the 1970s.

Lisa Heiss was the author of books for children and young people , plays and radio plays. Her narrative works cover a wide variety of current topics, but also include detective and historical novels.

Works

• Germans at work , Stuttgart 1939 (together with Doris Carstanjen)
• The great force , Stuttgart 1939
• Cornelia , Stuttgart 1940
• Cornelia and the child Nell , Stuttgart 1941
• The sulfur king of Louisiana , Reutlingen 1941
• See you in Tübingen , Stuttgart 1943
• Big world - small world , Stuttgart 1949
• Hirth - father, Hellmuth, Wolf , Stuttgart 1949
• Summer clouds over Tegernsee , Stuttgart 1949
• July at the start , Stuttgart 1951
• Sepp, the eagle eye , Stuttgart 1952
• The blue taffeta dress , Stuttgart 1953
• Georgia Falck , Stuttgart 1953
• The strange story of Veronika, who had two mothers , Vienna [u. a.] 1954
• Helis large camping site , Düsseldorf 1955
• Kathrin stays in Africa , Stuttgart 1955
• Margot in America , Düsseldorf 1957
• Call from Alaska , Stuttgart 1958
• The headscarf with the red polka dots , Stuttgart 1959
• Roses for Angelika , Reutlingen 1959
• Suddenly a storm chases , Reutlingen 1960
• Spring begins in autumn , Stuttgart 1961
• Sundri , Stuttgart 1962
• The picture with the blue frame , Stuttgart 1963
• The girl in fire , Stuttgart 1964
• Satya , Stuttgart 1965
• Simone and the leopard coat , Stuttgart 1965
• Tomorrow the lotus blooms , Stuttgart 1966
• Simone and the Mandarin , Stuttgart 1966
• The wind won't blow us over so quickly , Stuttgart 1968
• Lucky that she is so funny , Stuttgart 1970
• In the hands of the guerrillas , Stuttgart 1971
• Little Delaware chief , Stuttgart 1971
• Röttger, apartment block D, 5th floor , Stuttgart 1972
• A red carnation for breakfast , Stuttgart 1972
• The Paparuda Song , Stuttgart 1973
• A sheepdog for Claudia , Stuttgart 1973
• The decision on Bahn I , Balve (Sauerland) 1974
• The worm in the apple , Stuttgart 1974
• The final line , Stuttgart 1976
• Her name is Julia , Stuttgart 1976
• Prove that you are a genius , Stuttgart 1977
• The rabbit on the autobahn , Stuttgart 1978
• The duck between the geraniums , Stuttgart 1979
• The hunt for the diamonds , Menden / Sauerland 1980
• The surprise dog , Stuttgart 1980
• Anna dreams of tomorrow , Stuttgart 1981
• The singing field mouse , Stuttgart 1981
• Where's Maurice? , Menden / Sauerland 1981

Translations

• James Thurber : The Princess and the Moon , Stuttgart 1949

literature

• Dieter Schnabel: Sometimes someone has to be there to remember: sheets of memory about composers, writers and theater people. Books on Demand, 2003. (Obituary for Lisa Heiss, p. 82 f. ).
• Volker Hanisch: Hot, Lisa. In: Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th Century - Biographical and Bibliographical Handbook , Vol. XVI: Heinemann-Hermann. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023162-5 . ( Col. 176-178 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Lisa Heiss in the catalog of the German National Library