Nora pepper

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nora Pfeffer ( Russian Нора Густавовна Пфеффер , scientific transliteration Nora Gustavovna Pfeffer ; born December 31, 1919 in Tiflis , Democratic Republic of Georgia ; †  May 15, 2012 in Cologne ) was a Russian-German writer .

Life

Nora Pfeffer came from a family of teachers . She grew up in Tbilisi . In 1935 both parents were arrested. After high school she started in 1936 a study of German and English studies at the Pedagogical University in Tbilisi. When Nora Pfeffer refused to distance herself from her parents in 1937, she was forcibly de-registered ; In 1938, however, she was able to resume her studies. In 1939 Nora Pfeffer married a Georgian ; Their son was born in 1940. In 1941 her husband was drafted into military service. In contrast to the majority of Germans living in the Soviet Union , Nora Pfeffer was not deported immediately after the German attack on the Soviet Union began . In November 1943 she was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to ten years in a labor camp followed by five years in exile .

Nora Pfeffer initially spent her imprisonment as a lumberjack in a camp near the central Siberian city of Mariinsk , then in Dudinka in northern Siberia . From 1953 she lived as an exile in northern Kazakhstan . She could now a study in the foreign language college in Alma-Ata record at them as from 1956 lecturer worked. In addition, she made contributions to organs of the Russian-German press, including the newspaper Neues Leben in Moscow . In 1992 she moved to Germany and lived in Cologne until her death .

Nora Pfeffer is the author of children's books and poems ; she also translated from Russian into German .

Works

  • Just don't cry over bumps , Alma-Ata 1968
  • Otar's expedition , Alma-Ata 1971
  • From bleating, barking and roaring , Alma-Ata 1972
  • Sun rain , Alma-Ata 1973
  • Many good comrades , Alma-Ata 1974
  • Mick the monkey , Alma-Ata 1976
  • Fracki, the emperor penguin , Alma-Ata 1978
  • Master Hase is a hairdresser , Alma-Ata 1981
  • Kazakh folk tales , Alma-Ata 1983 (with Konstantin Ehrlich)
  • Annual rings , Alma-Ata 1984
  • How Schnauzerl found himself again , Alma-Ata 1987
  • Rollerbsel , Alma-Ata 1988
  • My friends , Alma-Ata 1990
  • Time of Love , Moskva 1998
  • The dance of butterflies , Lage 2002 (together with Nikolaus Teichreb)

Editing

  • Light days , Alma-Ata 1973
  • Gold beetle , Moscow 1993

Translations

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Pepper, Nora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пфеффер, Нора Густавовна; Pfeffer, Nora Gustawowna (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Democratic Republic of Georgia
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 2012
Place of death Cologne , Germany