Rose Nyland

Rose Nyland (née Böchel) (born August 8, 1929 in Chemnitz ; † June 3, 2004 there ) was a German writer. In the GDR she was at times a functionary of the German Writers' Association and a member of the People's Chamber .

Life

Nyland was born as Rose-Erika Böchel in Chemnitz in the summer of 1929 as the daughter of the well-known Saxon Social Democrat and occasional SPD state chairman Karl Böchel . After the Nazis came to power and Böchel was severely mistreated in the Saxon state parliament on March 9, 1933, the family initially fled to Czechoslovakia. In 1937 the family emigrated from Prague to Norway via Poland and Sweden. After the German occupation of Norway , Böchel's family continued to live illegally in Oslo, and the seriously ill father was hidden by party friends in a Norwegian hospital. After the Gestapo found the family in 1944 and wanted to deport them to Germany , they helped them to flee to Sweden, where they saw the end of the war in an internment camp. Months later, the Böchel family returned to Norway, where Karl Böchel died in February 1946. Rose Böchel passed her Abitur at a Norwegian grammar school and in 1948 joined the Communist Youth Association of the Norwegian Communist Party . During this time she worked as an employee of the newly founded newspaper Avant-Garden, which appeared for the first time in February 1948 as an organ of the youth association. Böchel learned her journalistic craft there. In 1950 she became a member of the Norwegian Communist Party.

Rose Nyland (right) on April 10, 1963 at an evening of poetry in East Berlin

In 1951, Rose Nyland, now married, returned to her Saxon homeland in Chemnitz. As a result, her KP membership was converted into an SED membership , and she also joined the mass organizations DFD , FDGB and Kulturbund . In the first few years after her return, Nyland earned her living as a childcare worker and worker in a nursery. At the same time, she wrote poems in her free time, the first four of which appeared in the magazine Neue Deutsche Literatur in 1957 . From then on, Nyland worked as a freelance writer, who later devoted herself to the Bitterfelder Weg and became known above all through reports from companies. Accordingly, Nyland's career took off, from 1962 to 1965 she was party secretary of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district association of the German Writers 'Association , and from 1963 she was also a board member of the German Writers' Association for several years. Between 1962 and 1964 she was also a candidate for the SED district leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt. Nyland represented the Kulturbund between 1963 and 1971 for two legislative periods as a member of the People's Chamber. Later Nyland devoted himself mainly to radio plays and children's literature.

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 609.
• Coming soon in the lexicon? Portraits of young authors . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1961, Rose Nyland, p. 55 .