Maria Langner

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Maria Langner (born January 10, 1901 as Maria Pottlitzer in Berlin , † September 10, 1967 in East Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Maria Langner was the daughter of a commercial employee . She obtained the secondary school leaving certificate through self-study and in an external examination , but for economic reasons she was limited to ancillary activities, e.g. B. instructed as a seamstress in home work , saleswoman and cleaner . Her marriage to a farmer was forcibly divorced in 1934 for violating the National Socialist Blood Protection Act and the three children were given to the father. In 1944, Langner was interned in a labor camp as "politically unreliable" . In 1945, she was convicted aid for desertion and newsgathering for the communist resistance group to Anton Saefkow and Bernhard Bästlein to a prison sentence convicted.

After the end of the Second World War , Maria Langner joined the KPD . In her first, autobiographical novel The Last Bastion , she described the resistance by Dr. Walter Heisig u. a. in the final phase of the struggle for the city of Breslau, which was declared a fortress, in the spring of 1945. It became best known through the novel Stahl , in which the construction of a socialist steel mill in the early years of the GDR is described; In 1952 the author received a 3rd class national prize for this book . Maria Langner, who also wrote song lyrics for the GDR radio , lived in Eisenhüttenstadt from 1960 .

Works

  • The last bastion , Berlin 1948
  • A door is opened , Berlin 1949
  • Stahl , Berlin 1952

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personal data
SURNAME Langner, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollitzer, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1967
Place of death East Berlin