Renate Seydel

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Renate Seydel (also Renate Seydelová ; * 1935 in Schenkendorf, Steinreich municipality , Brandenburg ) is a German specialist in German, editor , writer and bookseller.

She is best known as the editor of artist memoirs and biographies, for example about Asta Nielsen , Marlene Dietrich , Romy Schneider and their mother Magda Schneider, as well as anthologies about the Baltic islands of Hiddensee , Rügen and Usedom .

Life

Renate Seydel is the daughter of a teacher. In 1953 she passed the Abitur and then studied German at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1957 . From 1959 she worked as an editor at Henschelverlag in Berlin, with a focus on film. In 1953 she came to the Baltic Sea island of Hiddensee for the first time, where her father built a summer house that was completed in 1962. Since then she has been spending the summer months on the island and has been running the Koralle bookstore in Vitte there since 1991 . In 1981 she published together with Allan Hagedorff the pictorial biography about Asta Nielsen; 1984 about Marlene Dietrich. The chronicle of her life in pictures and documents appeared in several editions. Three years later the illustrated biography about Romy Schneider appeared, the eighth edition of which came out in 2007. Ich, Romy - Diary of a Life about Romy Schneider was published by Renate Seydel in 1991 in the first edition. The diary appeared in several languages, including Dutch, French and Czech. In 1993 she published Charlotte von Stein and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - the story of a great love . Since the 1990s, Renate Seydel has mainly dealt with the Baltic Sea islands of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Works (selection)

as editor

  • Admires much and much scolded ... declarations of love by international stars in theater and film. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1982.
  • And everyone can expect a party ... declarations of love by international stars in theater and film. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1983.
  • Born under every sky ... memories of famous actors. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1986.
  • Every beginning is difficult ... Actors talk about their first films. From their memories. Henschel, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-362-00135-1 .
  • Hiddensee. Stories of the country and its people (= Ullstein 24967). Ullstein, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-548-24967-1 .
  • Asta Nielsen. A life between Copenhagen, Berlin and Hiddensee . Demmler, 2011, ISBN 978-3-910150-86-7 .
  • Hiddensee - Ein Lesebuch, Ullstein, 1991, ISBN 355006506X , as paperback 2000,
  • Hiddensee - Inselgedichte, Hinstorff; 2019, ISBN 9783356022391
  • Hiddensee - Inselgedichte (With geographical sheets by Eggert Gustavs), Ullstein, 1998, ISBN 9783548243542
  • Rügen Ein Lesebuch, Ullstein, 1996, ISBN 9783550067556 , as paperback 2000, ISBN 9783548249667
  • Usedom A reading book, Ullstein 1998, ISBN 9783548244259

as an author

  • Marlene Dietrich. A chronicle of her life in pictures and documents. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-485-01872-4 .
  • Rügen and Hiddensee from the air. Photos Günter Schneider. Nicolai, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-87584-457-2 .
  • Hiddensee from the air. Photos Günter Schneider. Nicolai, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87584-536-6 .
  • Usedom and the Haff coast from the air. Photos Günter Schneider. Nicolai, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87584-539-0 .
  • Hiddensee (photos Thomas Grundner), Hinstorff, 2017, ISBN 9783356014747

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personal data
SURNAME Seydel, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seydelová, Renate (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in German studies, editor, writer and bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Schenkendorf