Marianne Langewiesche

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Marianne Langewiesche (born November 16, 1908 in Irschenhausen, today Icking municipality , † September 4, 1979 in Munich ) was a German writer .

The daughter of Helene Brandt and her husband, the publisher and writer Wilhelm Langewiesche-Brandt , first grew up in Ebenhausen . After her parents separated, the mother moved with her to Munich after the First World War. She initially worked as a welfare worker and later as a journalist in Munich. In 1935 she married the writer and director Heinz Coubier (actually Kuhbier ). Despite her mother's Jewish ancestors, she received a writing license due to good relationships during the Nazi era . Her husband was finally allowed to write again.

In 1938 her first novel, Die Ballade der Judith van Loo, was published based on a legend from the Thirty Years' War . Her most successful work became Queen of the Seas in 1940 . A city novel with excerpts from the history of Venice . Not individual personalities, but Venice itself in five parts - childhood, youth, maturity, old age, death - form the focus of her rather pessimistic historical considerations.

Later she mainly wrote travel reports, non-fiction books and magazine articles. Her travels took her to Italy, Spain, Malta , Albania , Israel and Togo, among others . She also worked for radio and television. In 1973 Langewiesche received the Munich Tukan Prize and in 1978 the Ernst Hoferichter Prize .

Works

EM Lilien , drawing for the garden of oblivion.
  • 1938: The ballad of Judith van Loo
  • 1940: Queen of the Seas. Novel of a City (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart)
  • 1942: The Lady in Black
  • 1947: Castell Bô. Odysseus and his oar. A blueprint.
  • 1949: The citizens of Calais
  • 1949: All Saints Bay
  • 1952: The olive branch. novel
  • 1953: The garden of oblivion. narrative
  • 1955: Psalter and harp. Poetry of Christianity (with Heinz Coubier)
  • 1955: Venice. History and Art (New 1962 with subtitle an educational trip ; New 1973 with subtitle experience of a unique city )
  • 1956: With quill pen and broomstick. Poetic thoughts of a housewife
  • 1964: Ravenna - City of the Great Migration. An educational journey
  • 1970: When did the West start to think? Jewish faith and Greek knowledge.
  • 1970: traces in the desert? Saints and Traitors in Biblical History.
  • 1971: Jura impressions
  • 1977: This side of the hundred gates
  • 1978: Albania
  • 1979: Togo

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 171f.
personal data
SURNAME Langewiesche, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Irschenhausen, today the municipality of Icking
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1979
Place of death Munich