Marianne Lange-Weinert

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Marianne Lange-Weinert (born September 11, 1921 in Magdeburg ; † December 14, 2005 in Kleinmachnow ) was a cultural functionary, editor , translator and author of treatises on children's and youth literature as well as an autobiographical book for young people , which in the GDR was standard socialist reading for adolescents and was published in 17 editions.

Life

Marianne Lange-Weinert was the daughter of the writer Erich Weinert and his first wife. Born in Magdeburg, she went to school in Munich and then in Berlin. Their home was in the artists' colony . Due to the KPD membership and thus the communist texts of the father, the family had to flee Berlin in March 1933 in the course of a major raid by the SA . After a short stopover in Switzerland, a longer stay in the Saar area, which was subordinated to the League of Nations , and then a transition period in Paris in the summer of 1935, she came to the Soviet Union in 1935, where Marianne Weinert finished her schooling at the Karl Liebknecht School . She then studied pedagogy and foreign languages ​​for two semesters at a pedagogical university in Moscow. In 1943 she left the university in order to serve her refuge in a kolkhoz farm . In 1945 the opportunity arose to work as an interpreter with the Red Army under Colonel General Bersarin in the direction of Berlin and thus actively participate in the liberation of the homeland from National Socialism .

After Berlin was taken, she was used in the Haus des Rundfunks in Masurenallee . In 1947 she resigned from the army and worked in the Soviet military administration in the field of cultural policy. After the founding of the GDR , she stayed in this profession, working on the cultural advisory board for publishing, which her father was in charge of. She moved to the State Film Committee as an editor and eventually decided to make a living as a freelance editor and translator. The works she has translated include Brandnacht in der Taiga (Agnija Kusnezowa), My First Love (Maria Krassawitzkaja) and Outside the City (Nikolai Bogdanow).

Gravestone for Marianne Lange-Weinert in the forest cemetery Kleinmachnow

She was encouraged by her environment to turn her youthful experiences into a children's book, which she found very difficult because the usual censorship processes from her own publishing orders were in mind. In fact, the thousand or so written pages were reduced to 230 printed pages, which appeared in 1958 under the title Mädchenjahre in Kinderbuchverlag Berlin and became a great and long-lasting success, also in socialist countries . Because of this, the German Writers' Association accepted them into its ranks. According to the handbook on children's and youth literature published in 2006, the narrative is characterized by “a conventional, premodern narrative based on a fixed worldview that sees itself as socialist realism ”. The book was included in the school curriculum .

Lange-Weinert's freelance work gave her another chance to continue her studies. So she enrolled in 1959 as a scientific aspirant at the German Institute of Humboldt University . She became a lecturer in her field of children's and youth literature and also published works on it, for example, she observed, commented and interpreted the production of youth books in the FRG “from basic Marxist positions”.

Marianne Lange-Weinert already lived in GDR times and until the end in Kleinmachnow.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Elisabeth Kiele: On the death of Marianne Lange-Weinert . In: Artist Colony Courier . No. 6 . Berlin May 2010, p. 3 f .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Coming soon in the dictionary? Portraits of young authors . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1961, Marianne Lange-Weinert, p. 44 .
  3. ↑ a b U-M: Two books for young girls . In: New Germany . No. 52/1958 , March 1, 1958, For the Youth, p. 10 .
  4. ^ Julia Frohn: Literature Exchange in Divided Germany. 1945–1972 (=  research on GDR society ). 1st edition. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-807-3 , glossary. Cultural Advisory Board (KB), 1946–1951, p. 433 .
  5. ↑ Rüdiger Steinlein, Heidi Strobel, Thomas Kramer (eds.): Handbook for children's and youth literature. SBZ / GDR. From 1945 to 1990 . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02177-9 , Part B Performing part. Chapter 4.5.3 Political Resistance, Sp. 352 .
  6. ↑ Rüdiger Steinlein, Heidi Strobel, Thomas Kramer (eds.): Handbook for children's and youth literature. SBZ / GDR. From 1945 to 1990 . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02177-9 , Part B Performing part. Chapter 3.2 The Development of Girls' Literature in the Soviet Zone / GDR, Sp. 265 .
  7. ↑ Marianne Lange [-Weinert]: For epic children's literature in Germany . Ed .: Horst Kunze (=  studies ). 1st edition. Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1980 (preliminary note on p. 7 and blurb on the back of the cover).
  8. ↑ German anti-fascists honored . In: Neues Deutschland from 4./5. May 1985, p. 3.

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SURNAME Lange-Weinert, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinert, Marianne (maiden name); Lange, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural official, editor, translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2005
Place of death Kleinmachnow