Verena von Asten

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Verena von Asten , née Eckart (born August 10, 1932 in Ulm ) is a German writer who has lived in Belgium since 1959 .

Live and act

Verena von Asten is the daughter of leather goods - manufacturers Hans Eckart and his wife Lily . She grew up on Michel mountain in Ulm, closed the girls high school with GCSEs and completed after stays in the French Switzerland and in England training as a bilingual secretary and Auslandsstenografin . After a six-month stay in Argentina , she worked for four years in the foreign department of an agricultural machinery factory in Ulm and at Bell Telephone in Zurich .

In April 1959 she married in Ulm the Belgian felt cloth -Fabrikanten Eckart von Asten and since then has lived in his home town of Eupen in the German-speaking part of Belgium.

Verena von Asten wrote numerous children's books and short stories as well as some in Eastern Belgium playing Regional Crime . In 2004 she was honored with the literature prize of the German-speaking Community in Belgium (DG) for her detective novel “Death in the Sauna” . In 2010 she published the first part of her autobiography with the title "Past, but not forgotten", followed by a sequel in 2014 with the book "Freischwimmen".

Even at the old age of over 80, Verena von Asten takes part in author workshops and is invited to readings .

Verena von Asten is the mother of two daughters and a son.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • 1980 Young riders on the Wiesenhof . Engelbert-Verlag, Balve 1980, ISBN 3-536-01511-5 .
  • 1981 Happy riding summer . Engelbert-Verlag, Balve 1981, ISBN 3-536-01563-8 .
  • 1982 Secret on the Wiesenhof . Engelbert-Verlag, Balve 1982, ISBN 3-536-01607-3 .
  • 1989 Help, I'm an animal lover. From the everyday life of an animal-loving family . With illustrations by Christel Dürnholz. Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen 1989, ISBN 3-923099-68-1 .
  • 1998 Mixed salad. Stories of two and four-legged friends . Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen 1998, ISBN 90-5433-109-7 .
  • 1999 End of the dam: Birnbaum determined . Meyer and Meyer, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89124-527-0 .
  • 2001 death in the sauna . Meyer and Meyer, Aachen 2001, ISBN 3-89124-682-X .
  • 2004 Shadows of the Past . Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen 2004, ISBN 90-5433-189-5 .
  • 2004 Ticino village stories . Edition Isele, Eggingen 2004, ISBN 3-86142-312-X .
  • 2007 Lea, love on four paws . Karin Fischer-Verlag, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89514-720-3 .
  • 2010 Gone but not forgotten: a childhood in Ulm in the 30s and 40s . Autobiography. Klemm and Ölschläger, Münster and Ulm 2010, ISBN 978-3-932577-76-5 .
  • 2014 Free swimming: ups and downs of an almost completely normal life. Memories and Episodes (1946-2013) , autobiography. Mainz Verlag, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-810702-21-0 .
  • 2015 The dancing 90-year-old and other stories for young and old. , Mainz Verlag, Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-810702-39-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Rudi Kübler: Verena von Asten publishes book about her childhood and youth in Ulm ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Südwest Presse , July 20, 2010, swp.de
  2. ↑ a b Presentation of the author on the homepage of the Klemm und Ölschläger publishing house , klemm-und-oelschlaeger.de, accessed on February 29, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Verena von Asten: Freischwimmen , autobiography, 2014
  4. ↑ Ingrid Peinhardt-Franke: Sharp behind-the-kept setting , Aachener Zeitung , January 30, 2004 aachener-zeitung.de, accessed on February 29, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Asten, Verena from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckart, Verena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm