Marianne Bruns
Marianne Bruns (born August 31, 1897 in Leipzig , † January 1, 1994 in Dresden ) was a German writer .
Life
After studying singing in Breslau , she ran her parents' laundry business from 1926. Collaboration on various magazines, including Der Kunstwart from 1923 . Since the beginning of 1929 she worked regularly for radio (SFS Breslau and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk), where she worked on various series, a. a. participated in women's and children's radio and read from her poems in August 1930. She also cooperated with Dr. Eva Schumann from Dresden.
Your portrait, one of the most beautiful pictures by Karl Hanusch , was burned in the destruction of Dresden . After the end of the war she came to Freital - Niederhäslich as a freelance writer . There she shared Hanusch im Poisental's accommodation with Wolfgang and Eva Schumann . Her novels dealt with current issues in the GDR, especially the position of women in society. She received the FDGB Literature Prize in 1961 , the Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize in 1969 and later the Johannes R. Becher Medal .
She is buried in the cemetery in the Freital district of Deuben .
In Dresden and Freital, a Marianne-Bruns-Strasse commemorates her. She was also an honorary citizen of Freitals . In 2011, the Leipzig City Council decided to give a new street in the Probstheida district the name Brunsweg . In 1987 she received the gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit .
Works
- Blessed cycle (poems, 1925)
- Jean Paul . Selected works (as editor, 1925)
- And yet we live ... (radio play, world premiere 1925)
- Twice Othello (radio play, world premiere 1925)
- Journey through Sweden (1926)
- Telemachos (novella, 1927)
- Luz, you stole the goose (radio play, world premiere 1932)
- Jau and Trine invite you (children's book, 1933)
- The Swede and the three Indians (children's book, 1934)
- Willi and Kamilla. Two children are growing up (children's book, 1935)
- The Dioscuri at Olympia (novel, 1936). New under the title The Chosen. Novel from ancient Greece 1937.
- The righteous heart (novel, 1939)
- The swallows fly over my green garden (Roman, 1940)
- The daughter of Parze (novel, 1943)
- Flying seeds (novel, 1948)
- Wiegand the fire bearer (novella, 1949)
- Tobby's book. A theatrical story. (Story for children, 1949)
- The missing knife (amateur play for children, 1949)
- Bicycle and Stepmother (radio play, 1950)
- Does Christel Peters go to the stage? (Youth novel, 1951)
- The tide lifts us (novel about the beginning of the women's movement, 1952 / new edition 1979)
- Happiness does not fall from the sky (novel, 1954/1961)
- No grass grows over it (Roman, 1956/1962)
- Bauer and Richter (Roman, 1956)
- German voices 1956. New prose and poetry from East and West (as editor, 1956)
- Doctor in private (Roman, 1957)
- The boy with the two names (youth novel, 1958)
- Die Silbergrube (youth novel, 1959 / new edition 1971)
- This is theft (as editor, 1960)
- Letters from Zittau (as editor, 1960)
- Found guilty (narrative, 1961)
- Between compulsory and freestyle (novel about figure skating, 1962)
- Housewives Brigade. A scene. (1962)
- Understanding of the Ninth (Roman 1962)
- The Glade. Tales from 9 Centuries (1956, new edition 1980)
- No lie - that's how it was (radio play, 1964)
- The ninth son of Veit Stoss (novel 1967)
- Close-up slightly retouched (Roman 1972)
- The Trail of the Nameless Painter (historical novel about Jerg Ratgeb , 1975)
- Signs Without Miracles (novel, 1977)
- The green branch (short novel, 1979)
- Change of scene (1982)
- O Nineveh ! (1984)
- Air swing (1985)
- Goodbye (1987)
- Near Distance (1989)
Web links
- Literature by and about Marianne Bruns in the catalog of the German National Library
- Article about Marianne Bruns on potsdamer-buergerzeitung.de
- Overview of the contents of the estate of Marianne Bruns in the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden
Individual evidence
- ^ Writers on the radio - appearances by authors on the radio during the Weimar Republic 1924-1932 on the website of the German Radio Archive; Retrieved February 29, 2012
- ↑ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800-1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 46.
- ↑ Freital now officially has a Marianne-Bruns-Strasse , sz-online.de; Retrieved February 12, 2011
- ^ Marianne Bruns on the website of the city of Freital
- ↑ Council meeting of May 18, 2011 (resolution no. RBV-822/11), official announcement: Leipzig Official Gazette no. 11 of June 4, 2011, in force since July 5, 2011 and August 5, 2011. Cf. Official Journal No. 16 of September 10, 2011.
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , 3./4. October 1987, p. 3
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bruns, Marianne |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1897 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1994 |
Place of death | Dresden |