Ursula Sigismund

Ursula Sigismund (born July 9, 1912 in Danzig as Ursula Oehler ; † March 27, 2004 in Weimar ) was a German writer .

Life

Ursula Sigismund was the daughter of archivist Max Oehler and a niece of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche . Ursula Sigismund married a high school teacher ; The marriage resulted in five children, whose upbringing was dedicated to Sigismund. In 1955 the family fled from the GDR to the Federal Republic , where Ursula Sigismund began to write literary texts. In 1963 she received the " German Narrator Prize " donated by the magazine " Stern " for the manuscript of her novel "Bedrängte Zeit "; the book did not find a publisher until 25 years later . The Sigismund family later lived in Darmstadt . Ursula Sigismund worked as a freelancer for German broadcasters and worked in writing workshops with prisoners . She gained greater fame through her novel "Zarathustra's Sippschaft" about the Nietzsche family .

Ursula Sigismund's work includes novels, short stories and essays . She was a member of the Association of German Writers .

Cross-border commuters , Freiburg i. Br. [U. a.] 1970
Always straight ahead, Madame , Freiburg i. Br. [U. a.] 1971
Luggage storage , Darmstadt 1974, new edition 2002 by Kranichsteiner Literaturverlag
Zarathustras tribe , Munich 1977, new edition 1992 by Kranichsteiner Literaturverlag on the occasion of the 80th birthday
Montmartre , Vienna [a. a.] 1981, new edition 1997 under the title Suzanne Valadon. Model and painter at Kranichsteiner Literaturverlag
Troubled time , Frankfurt (Main) 1988
The old house on the slope , Frankfurt a. M. 1992

Closed time for thieves , Frankfurt (Main) 1986 (published together with Peter Zingler )
Thinking in conflict. The Nietzsche archive in personal reports 1897 - 1945. With an introduction by Dietrich Wachler and unpublished. Articles by Max Oehler , Münster / Hamburg / London, Lit, 2001, ISBN 3-8258-4865-5 .