Lise guest

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Lise Gast (born January 2, 1908 in Leipzig , † September 26, 1988 in Lorch (Württemberg) , bourgeois Elisabeth Richter , nee Gast ) was a German author of children's and youth literature and a translator from Dutch and English .

Life

She trained as an agricultural teacher and married Georg Richter in 1933. The marriage had eight children. Her first book, Brave Young Susanne , was published in 1936, followed by Young Mother Randi in 1939 , which became very successful. According to her maiden name, she chose the pseudonym Lise Gast , under which she had previously published stories. Lise Gast fled Silesia with her children on February 12, 1945 to the city of Radebeul bordering Dresden , where she arrived at around 6 p.m. on the evening of the first wave of bombings in Dresden on February 13. At the end of March she fled to Wedderstedt near Quedlinburg, where she worked as a day laborer for three years. Their eighth child, Christoph, was born there. Two weeks later she learned of the death of her husband as a prisoner of war in Pacov in Czechoslovakia.

In November 1948, with the help of Hans Lißner, she fled across the zone border to Hardehausen in Westphalia. There she devoted herself entirely to writing. In order to live near her Stuttgart-based publishing houses, she bought a former labor service barracks near Lorch in 1955 , where she founded a pony farm. Life on this farm, on which Lise Gast bred Shetland ponies and Icelandic horses, was the subject of further books. She also worked as a columnist .

Lise Gast wrote a total of around 120 books. Two weeks before her death, she had read from her last book, Nothing Remains, My Heart, and Everything is read permanently in Schwäbisch Gmünd. Lise guest was buried in Lorch. Her daughter Marianne Späh is also active as an author and gave her mother's memoirs in 2007 . It's good that it was! Lise Gast tells stories from her life .

For many years, Gast was friends with the author and horse expert Ursula Bruns .

Works (selection)

  • Brave young Susanne . The story of a camaraderie. With text drawings by Kurt Schöllkopf . Union Verlag, Stuttgart – Berlin – Leipzig 1936, 67 pp.
  • Cheer up, Barbara . A story about young people. Interior pictures by R. Pfennigwerth. H.-J. Fischer-Verlag, Berlin – Leipzig 1939, 142 pp.
  • The hesitating heart . Novel. Peter J. Oestergaard, Berlin 1939, 276 pp.
  • Young mother Randi . Novel. With drawings by Siegfried Kortemeier . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1939, 282 pp.
  • The children of Wienhagen . Funny story from six children on a farm. With title picture and 25 pictures in the text by Rolf Winker. Herold-Verlag, Stuttgart 1940, 119 pp.
  • The secret burden . Novel. Kaiser, Böhmisch-Leipa 1942, 300 pp.
  • Comrade for life . A novel about young people. Kaiser, Böhmisch-Leipa 1942, 317 pp.
  • The little brothers . With illus.Kaiser, Böhmisch-Leipa 1943, 152 pp.
  • One woman alone . A German fate from our day. Edition El Buen Libvro, Buenos Aires 1948, 243 pp.
  • The Heimons children . Narrative. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1950, 267 pp.
  • The dreamer . 1st - 14th Thousand publishing house Die Boje, Stuttgart 1952, 70 pp.

Awards and honors

literature

  • Susanne Lange-Greve: Invisible threads. Lise Gast 1908–1988. Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2008, ISBN 978-3-936373-00-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hanna Meid: Life takes place today . In: ostalb-einhorn . No. 140 , December 2008, p. 252 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Guest, Lise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elisabeth Richter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1988
Place of death Lorch (Württemberg)