Margarete Hannsmann
Margarete Dorothea Hannsmann (born Wurster , born February 10, 1921 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ; † March 29, 2007 in Stuttgart ) was a German writer who also published under the pseudonym Sancho Pansa .
Life
The daughter of a National Socialist teacher was initially a Jungmädelscharführer and advisor in the Hitler Youth before she broke away from the Nazi ideology and was increasingly hostile to it. She trained as an actress in Stuttgart with Emmy Remolt-Jessen , appeared in front theater performances and in 1943 married the journalist and later publisher Heinrich Hannsmann . After his death in 1958, she worked, among other things, in the radio, as a teaching material dealer, saleswoman for advertisements and as a puppeteer in order to be able to support herself and her two children. In the 1960s she traveled to Greece several times with the writer Johannes Poethen . From 1967 she was the partner of HAP Grieshaber . After his death in 1981, she first lived in Greece, and most recently in Stuttgart.
Hannsmann was involved in the peace, environmental and anti-nuclear movement and was, among other things, a member of the PEN Presidium from 1984 .
Her son Cornelius Hannsmann was her estate administrator. He died on October 11, 2010.
Works
From 1964 onwards numerous volumes of poetry, prose, travelogues and radio plays appeared, including:
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Poetry
- Immerse in the stone (Darmstadt 1964)
- Maquis in Nowhere (1966)
- Coarse, Fine & Divine (1970)
- between urn and bull (Hamburg / Düsseldorf 1971)
- love
- The other bank before your eyes
- traces
- Dragon Days
- Raven flight
- Predator day
- Purple instant
- That dream. Laurin poems
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prose
- Three days in C. (Munich 1965)
- The bright day is breaking. A child becomes a Nazi (Munich / Hamburg 1982)
- Sancho Panza (id est MH): Chauffeur at Don Quixote. How hap Grieshaber moved into the Peasants' War (Düsseldorf 1977)
- Pfauenschrei, The years with HAP Grieshaber
- Diary of my aging (Munich 1991)
- Until the waning moon (Munich 1998)
- Logs from the twilight. Franz Fühmann, Margarete Hannsmann, HAP Grieshaber (Rostock 2000)
Honors
- 1976: Schubart Literature Prize from the city of Aalen
- 1980: Literature Prize of the City of Stuttgart
- 1982: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 2017: The Margarete-Hannsmann-Saal in the Heidenheimer Stadtbücherei was named after Margarete Hannsmann.
- After Margarete Hannsmann, the path between the tea house in Stuttgart's Weißenburgpark and the Schill Oak on Wernhaldenstraße was named Margarete-Hannsmann-Weg. The path is near the house at Zur Schillereiche 23, where Hannsmann lived until her death.
literature
- Ulrike Barth: To Schillereiche 23 and 25. In: J. Menno Harms (editor): Der Stuttgarter Bopser: houses, families, stories. Tübingen: Silberburg-Verlag, 2014, pages 156–158.
Web links
- Literature by and about Margarete Hannsmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Exhibition brochure on Margarete Hannsmann (PDF; 1.92 MB)
- Catalog raisonné by Margarete Hannsmann (PDF; 2.58 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Margarete Hannsmann: The bright day is breaking (Munich 1991, page 248 ff.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hannsmann, Margarete |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hannsmann, Margarete Dorothea (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 2007 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |