Miep Diekmann

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Miep Diekmann (1979)

Maria Hendrika Jozina "Miep" Diekmann (born January 26, 1925 in Assen , Drenthe , † July 9, 2017 in Scheveningen ) was a Dutch writer and a renowned children's book author .

Life

Miep Diekmann spent five years of her childhood in Curaçao , where her father was the commander of the military police . This stay shaped her writing. In her more than 70 children's books, the protagonist is often a lone fighter against injustice.

With the book Ik heb geen naam (German: I have no name ) she won the 1983 Janusz Korczak International Literature Prize together with the Czech poet and Holocaust survivor Dagmar Hilarová , who was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp . This work describes the life of a girl in a concentration camp.

In September 2010 the Prague weekly “ Reflex ” revealed that most of this book was not written by Diekmann. Diekmann had apparently used Hilarová's Theresienstadt diary as a template for long periods - and not, as always claimed, only the opening chapter and Hilarová's poems. Hilarová's son spoke of a “literary theft of the century” and at the same time published the facsimile of his mother's diaries in book form.

Works (selection)

  • Voltooid verleden tijd . 1947
  • De boten van Brakkeput . 1956 (German: The Boats of Brakkeput )
  • Padu is licensed . 1957 (Eng. Padu is crazy )
  • Marmouzet . 1958
  • … En de groeten van Elio . 1964 (German ... and greetings from Wancho )
  • Marijn bij de lorredraaiers . 1967 (Eng. Marijn with the privateers )
  • Nildo en de maan . 1967 (German Nildo and the moon )
  • De dagen van Olim . 1971
  • The secret of Dakki Parasol . 1971 ( eng . The secret of Dakki Parasol )
  • Dan ben je nergens sea . 1975
  • How many stap . 1977 (with Thé Tjong-Khing , German role role wheel )
  • Ik heb geen naam . 1980 (German edition: Miep Diekmann / Dagmar Hilarová: I have no name . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1982)
  • De prinses van Zweeloo . 1981 (German: The Princess of Zweelo )
  • Annejet. In a class with Luuk
  • Annejet. Two and a paddle boat
  • Annejet. The ice breaks
  • Annejet. Holidays with a difference
  • Annejet. Incredible news
  • Chichi's big plans
  • Do something if you want to live
  • Your chance, Joleen
  • My lama
  • Wherever there are boys, wherever there are girls
  • The trip to Curacao
  • Two colorful lanterns
  • The mussel man
  • Two times in life

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schrijfster Miep Diekmann (92) overleden , nos.nl, July 11, 2017
  2. ↑ Milan Tesař: Nemám žádné jméno: Příběh for terezínského ghetta. In: Reflex , September 25, 2010 (Czech).
  3. ^ Website Dagmar Hilarová . Retrieved September 28, 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Diekmann, Miep
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diekmann, Maria Hendrika Jozina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch author of children's books
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Assen , Drenthe , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2017
Place of death Scheveningen , the Netherlands