Margot Ehrich

Margot Ehrich (pseudonym: Pauline , born April 20, 1936 in Bautzen ) is a German writer .

life and work

Margot Ehrich spent her childhood in the Bohemian Leitmeritz . After the family was expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1945 , they spent the next five years in Bautzen. In 1950 she left the GDR , first lived in the Federal Republic of Germany and then for twelve years in Switzerland , where she studied at a ballet school in Bern . After her return to Germany in 1971, Ehrich completed literary writing lessons via distance learning . From 1981 to 1986 she wrote under a pseudonym for the local section of the Remscheid General-Anzeiger . Since 1987 she has been a freelance writer who writes short stories and poems in Undeloh / Nordheide in Lower Saxony ( Harburg district ).

Margot Ehrich is a member of the Association of German Writers and Exile PEN .

Single track

• Thistle in the Blood, Lossburg / Black Forest 1991.
• The dead in our coats, poems, Regensburg 1994.
• Sometimes God is not at home, Erzählungen, Munich 1995.
• Shoulder country, poems, Regensburg 1999.
• A window in sadness, stories, Dresden 2000.
• Do you know where the wars come from, stories, Dresden 2000.
• At night, poems, Aachen 2005.
• I find out where he went, poems, Aachen 2006.
• Girl's song, short stories, Aachen 2007.
• Come to Madagascar, stories, Aachen 2008.
• I know who you are, memories, Aachen 2010.

Awards

• 1991 Nikolaus Lenau Poetry Prize from the Esslingen Artists' Guild
• 1996 Werner Ross Prize
• 1999 Narrator Prize East German Cultural Council Foundation
• 1999 Sudeten German Culture Prize for Literature
• 2001 Exile PEN literature prize

Web links

• Literature by and about Margot Ehrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in the database literatur-niedersachsen.de
• Rimbaud-Verlag pages about the author