Sigrid Grabner

Sigrid Grabner (born October 29, 1942 in Tetschen-Bodenbach ) is a German writer.

Life

Sigrid Grabner was born as Sigrid Hauf in the Sudeten German twin town of Tetschen-Bodenbach on the Elbe . After the expulsion, she grew up in Merseburg from 1947 , where she attended school until 1957. After graduating from high school in Halle , she went into agriculture for a year in 1961. From 1962 to 1967 she studied cultural studies and Indonesian studies at the Humboldt University in East Berlin . In 1972, she was here with a thesis on Indonesian culture policy during the Sukarno dictatorship in the doctorate . Sigrid Grabner has been working as a freelance writer since 1974. In theGDR she was spied on by the State Security as an alleged CIA agent .

Sigrid Grabner lives in Potsdam . In the 1990s she headed the Brandenburg Literature Office, which she co-founded .

She was married to the writer and concentration camp survivor Hasso Grabner and has two grown children.

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Sigrid Grabner has published a large number of non-fiction books, essays , biographies and historical novels. Your biographical work, e.g. B. About Mahatma Gandhi and Cola di Rienzo , are characterized in addition to the literary claim by thorough research of the available information and its historically correct presentation. For her books about Christina of Sweden and Gregory the Great , she undertook a. a. extensive trips to the original locations.

In 2003 Sigrid Grabner published her autobiography Vintage '42 , which she followed up with a second volume in 2019 with Im Zwielicht der Freiheit - Potsdam is more than Sanssouci .

Together with Hendrik Röder she edited books about Emmi Bonhoeffer , Henning von Tresckow and the Potsdam anti-Nazi Hermann Maaß . She regularly writes articles for the Vatican magazine .

Awards and honors

• Villa Massimo guest of honor in 1992
• Scholarship holder at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf 2000

Works (selection)

• Flames over Luzon , (Philippine Revolution of 1896), Berlin 1976
• Hope on the Irrawaddy , Burma on the move, Berlin 1980
• What happened on the "Zeven Provinciën"? , Berlin 1980
• Dream of Rome , histor. Novel about Cola di Rienzo, Berlin 1985
• Mahatma Gandhi - politician, pilgrim a. Prophet , 3rd edition, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-355-00583-5
• Wedding in the Castel Sant'Angelo - women from Italian history , Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-371-00126-1
• Christine - rebel on Sweden's throne , novel biography, Frankfort, Berlin 1995 ISBN 3-548-23711-8
• Familiar foreigners , essays, portraits, reflections, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-930752-22-0
• Mahatma Gandhi - politician, pilgrim and prophet , biography, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-374-01940-4
• Volume '42 - my life between times , autobiography, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-374-02041-0 (NA: Kisslegg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86357-014-9 )
• In the eye of the storm - Gregor the Great , biography, Augsburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86744-110-0
• She made peace - Maria Theresia and other stories , Kisslegg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86357-201-3
• In the twilight of freedom - Potsdam is more than Sanssouci , Kisslegg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86357-234-1

as editor:

• 1000 years of Potsdam , Frankfurt, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-550-07518-9
• Potsdam 1945 - 1989 - between adaptation and rebellion , Potsdam 1999, ISBN 3-932502-17-5
• In the spirit I stay with you - texts and documents on Hermann Maaß , Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-936872-03-3
• Henning von Tresckow, I am who I was , texts and documents, 3rd edition Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936872-44-9
• Emmi Bonhoeffer - moving evidence of a courageous life , Reinbek 2006, ISBN 978-3-499-62164-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Sigrid Grabner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Sigrid Grabner at Literaturport
• "An interjection from Potsdam" The column by Sigrid Grabner in the Vatican magazine, published by the catholic portal "kathtube"