Marianne Weno

Marianne Weno (born June 4, 1931 ; † March 28, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German publicist , dramaturge , translator and environmental activist.

Life

Weno's grandparents fled the National Socialists to Sweden and her father, director of a Berlin theater, lost his job as a critic of the regime. After graduating, she worked as a freelance dramaturge at a Berlin theater, then as a journalist, translator and for a school book publisher. In the 1960s she founded her own theater publisher. In the 1980s she joined the Berlin Action Group against Forest Dying ; as an editor she shaped their Berliner Luft-Zeitung . Weno was one of the initiators of the campaign for a car-free Havelchaussee , was committed to nature conservation on the site of the disused garbage dump in Wannsee and fought for the preservation of the threatened Parforceheide in southwest Berlin. She was also a founding member of the Alliance against the Havel Expansion and the Energy Policy Council .

In 1997 she was awarded the Berlin Nature Conservation Prize from the Berlin Nature Conservation Foundation .

Translations

• The large Marco Polo World Atlas Ostfildern: Mair 1994 (with Daniel Weno)

Translation of plays

• Jack Popplewell A Day in the Life of ... (1965)
• Peter Yeldham Stay As You Are (1973)
• Derek Benfield Love Jogging (1994)

Web links

• Obituary (Foundation for Nature Conservation)
• Marianne Weno in the Internet Movie Database (English)