Rosa Speidel

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Rosa Speidel (* 1943 in Batsch-Sentiwan , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is a German author of poetry and prose .

Life

Rosa Speidel comes from the Danube Swabian ethnic group . She spent her earliest childhood in the Yugoslav concentration camp Rudolfsgnad , in which “Germans unable to work” (women, children, elderly) were interned. She then went to school in Serbia for five years. She has lived in Germany since 1954. The trained photo lab technician and photographer works as a freelancer for several regional newspapers. Some of her texts have appeared in anthologies and yearbooks for modern poetry at home and abroad. She is a member of the board of the Association for German Cultural Relations Abroad (VDA), Stuttgart Working Group.

Speidel has been writing poetry since her youth and since 2002 also prose, short stories and narratives. In her novels she processes the events of her childhood. The author lives in Talheim , Heilbronn district .

Publications

  • Whipping girls: childhood memories of an internment camp , Literareon Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-83161-266-8 , 121 pp.
  • Fog wind and wave hearts: lyrical collages , Literareon Verlag, 2009, ISBN 3-83161-447-4 , 163 pp.
  • Overdose - Roman: Wi (e) der das Vergessen , novum publishing, 2011, ISBN 3-85022-997-1 , 352 pp.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rosa Speidel: Traumata or The Lost Identity
  2. ^ The suffering of the Germans in communist Yugoslavia , Volume 3, Donauschwäbisches Archiv München, 1995, ISBN 3-926276-21-5 , pp. 234ff
  3. ↑ Rosa Speidel reads on Heimattag. In: Der Franzfelder, number 53, June 2012
  4. ^ The Literareon Lyrik-Bibliothek - Volume 7 , short biography Rosa Speidel
  5. ↑ beating girls - reading with the author Talheimer Rosa Speidel , In: Community College lowlands in the district of Heilbronn, November 20, 2011
  6. ↑ Canon of Contrasts: Award ceremony at the literary competition of the Artists' Guild. In: Eßlinger Zeitung , November 15, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Speidel, Rosa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of poetry and prose
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Batsch-Sentiwan , Kingdom of Yugoslavia