Rosemarie Schuder

Rosemarie Schuder 3rd from right, Heinrich Mann Prize 1958

Rosemarie Schuder (married Rosemarie Hirsch ; * July 24, 1928 in Jena ; † May 5, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German writer and member of the main board of the Eastern CDU .

Life

Rosemarie Schuder came from a middle-class family; her father was the playwright and narrator Kurt Schuder (1884–1969). She attended a girls' school and graduated from high school in 1947 . She then worked as a freelance journalist for the East German newspapers Daily Rundschau and Neue Zeit . In 1952 she was studying at the Jena glassworks . In 1957 and 1959 she went on study trips to Italy . Since 1958 she was married to the writer Rudolf Hirsch (1907–1998) and published with him writings on the persecution of the Jews . Rosemarie Schuder is the author of numerous historical novels , in which she dealt primarily with topics from German history such as the Münster Anabaptist Uprising of 1534 or the fate of important personalities such as Paracelsus , Johannes Kepler , Hieronymus Bosch and Michelangelo .

At the 7th GDR Writers' Congress in 1973 , Schuder reaffirmed the agitational task of writers in the fight against the class enemy . It belonged since 1978 the PEN -Zentrum the GDR on, and later she became a member of the PEN Center Germany and the German Schiller Society . She ended her membership in the Eastern CDU, which had existed since 1951, after the fall of the Wall in March 1990 by leaving the party.

Until the end she lived as a freelance writer in Berlin.

Awards

Rosemarie Schuder was awarded the GDR National Prize for Art and Literature three times : 1969 III. Class and 1978 and 1988 II class. In addition, she received the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1958, the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit in 1964 and 1978, the Silver Order of Merit in 1985, the Lion Feuchtwanger Prize in 1976 and the Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin in 1988 . On January 24, 2014, the city of Guben honored Rosemarie Schuder with an entry in the city ​​of Guben's Golden Book during the New Year's reception.

Works

• Glass . Leipzig 1952
• The hosiery . Berlin 1953
• I dared . Berlin 1954
• The heretic of Naumburg . Berlin 1955. Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-89954-133-2
• My sickle is sharp . Berlin 1955
• Paracelsus . Berlin 1955
• The witch's son . Berlin 1957
• In the devil's mill . Berlin 1959
• The day of Rocca di Campo . Berlin 1959
• The storks from Langenbach . Berlin 1961
• The bound one. The Life of Michelangelo 1500–1527 . Berlin 1962
• The battered Madonna. The Life of Michelangelo 1527–1564 . Berlin 1964
• Tartuffe 63 or The marriage of Michaela Schlieker . Berlin 1965
• The enlightened or the image of poor Lazarus in Münster in Westphalia, also called the terror of love by the less fearful . Berlin 1968
• Paracelsus and the Garden of Earthly Delights . Berlin 1972
• Hieronymus Bosch . Berlin 1975
• Agrippa and the ship of the satisfied . Berlin 1977
• Serveto before Pilate . Berlin 1982
• The yellow spot. Roots and effects of hatred of Jews in German history (with Rudolf Hirsch ). Essays. Rütten & Loening Verlag (Dept. DDR-Lit.) Berlin 1987; Special edition Fourier Verl. Wiesbaden 1999. ISBN 3-932412-86-9
• The Queen's pictures . Berlin 1990
• World and dream of Hieronymus Bosch . Berlin 1991
• Botticelli . Berlin 1996
• Treason or Strange Paths to Ferdinand Freiligrath . Zurich 2001
• German stepmotherland, ways to Berthold Auerbach . Hentrich and Hentrich , Teetz 2003, ISBN 978-3-933471-40-6 .
• The “foreigner from the east” / Eduard Lasker - Jew, liberal, opponent of Bismarck . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-86650-780-7
• "King of Jews" - The life of Kurt Julius Goldstein (with Rudolf Hirsch ). Berlin 1996. Revised and expanded new edition, with a foreword by Hans Coppi . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86650-781-4 .
• with Andreas Peter: Goethe's beautiful crown - Corona Schröter and her monument in Guben . Niederlausitzer Verlag, Guben 2011, ISBN 978-3-935881-78-4 .
• Ludwig Bamberger . People's representatives in the shadow of Bismarck . Niederlausitzer Verlag, Guben 2013. ISBN 978-3-943331-10-3 .
• “I know the devil!” Martin Luther and his doctoral supervisor Andreas Bodenstein from Karlstadt, Niederlausitzer Verlag, Guben 2016, ISBN 978-3-943331-37-0 .

Editing

• Otto Nuschke . Man, politician, journalist , festival book (= library of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany , Volume 1), Union Verlag, Berlin 1953, DNB 453616690 , OCLC 258757678 (for Otto Nuschke's 70th birthday).

literature

• Bernd-Rainer Barth , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Schuder, Rosemarie . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Edda Eska: Features and structures of the historical novel, depicted in selected works by Lion Feuchtwanger , Rosemarie Schuder and Waldtraut Lewin . 1981, DNB 820148490 ( Dissertation A HU Berlin 1981, IV, 8, 222 pages).
• Rosemarie Schuder: The Alliance . In: wanted. 22 authors about themselves . With an afterword by Karl Bongardt. 1st edition. Union Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 17-19 .
• Werner Schuder (ed.): Hirsch nee Schuder, Rosemarie (pseudonym Rosemarie Schuder). In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . 1984, 59th year, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1984, ISBN 3-11-009677-3 , ISSN  0343-0936 , p. 495.

Web links

Commons : Rosemarie Schuder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Rosemarie Schuder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rosemarie Schuder. BS Verlag Rostock, accessed on July 1, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rosemarie Schuder is dead. Communication from Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk dated May 11, 2018 (accessed on May 12, 2018).
2. ↑ Rosemarie Schuder: History - Keys to the Present . Contribution to the discussion at the VII. Writers' Congress of the GDR. In: Secretariat of the main board of the CDU (ed.): Order and responsibility of the artist in the developed socialist society . Report on the meeting of the presidium of the main board of the CDU with artists on November 23, 1973 in Burgscheidungen. [Berlin] 1974, p. 98 f .