Maren winter

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Maren Winter (born August 20, 1961 in Lübeck ) is a German writer and puppeteer .

Life

Maren Winter grew up in Mölln as the daughter of the church music director at the Nicolaikirche Karl Lorenz and the flautist Maren Lorenz († May 9, 1977 in a hotel fire in Amsterdam, see also Walter Kraft ). The director , author and editor Arne Lorenz is her younger brother. In Lübeck, she completed a training course in puppetry at the Fritz Fey Marionette Theater . After an engagement with Gerhard's Marionetten in Schwäbisch Hall, she founded the Mimicry Puppet Theater in Freiburg in 1984 together with Petra Wolfram, which moved to Cologne in 1988. The activities included productions with different techniques for children and adults, directing, text and staging assignments for various independent theaters and participation in the Schauspiel Bonn / Schauspiel Wallenstein, in which a group of puppeteers animated large 3.50 meter high figures.

In 1996, Maren Winter and her husband Willi Winter relocated to the Finnish archipelago of Åland . Together they founded the winter puppet theater and gave guest performances in Scandinavia and Germany. There she began working on her first historical novel , in which she dealt with the past of her profession.

The couple has lived in Germany again since 2000 and travels as a touring theater throughout the German-speaking region. In 2003 “The Puppeteer's Legacy”, a historical novel , was published by Heyne Verlag. In 2006 Der Hundensammler , a novel about Peter Henlein and the invention of the pocket watch, was published by the same publisher. Her third book "Das Lied des Glockenspielers" is a historical music novel that is set in her native Lübeck during Franz Tunder's time ; it was published by Rowohlt in 2009 .

Maren Winter was a member of the historical novel Quo Vadis , which dissolved in 2014.

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  1. ↑ See the review by Hartmut Frommer in Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg. Volume 96, 2009, pp. 358-361.
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Maren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and puppeteer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck