Waldtraut Lewin

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Waldtraut Lewin (born January 8, 1937 in Wernigerode , Province of Saxony , Prussia ; † May 20, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German writer , dramaturge and director .

Life

As the daughter of assimilated Jews, Lewin was threatened by the Nuremberg race laws from birth. Her parents' marriage had to be annulled for the protection of the father, who was not Jewish, in order to free them both from the offense of "racial disgrace". From March 1939, her grandfather Robert Lewin took over the girl's guardianship. Thanks to the prudence and fearlessness of their grandfather, the Lewin family managed to avoid persecution and survive the war.

After graduating from school, Waldtraut Lewin studied German , Latin and theater studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1961 . In 1964 she graduated with a diploma in philosophy.

From 1961 to 1973, Waldtraut Lewin worked as a music dramaturge, opera translator and director at the Landestheater Halle . In 1970 she was awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle District Council for her musical work . In 1973 she took on a position as opera director and chief dramaturge for music theater at the Rostock Volkstheater . During her work as a dramaturge, she translated a total of sixteen Italian operas by Georg Friedrich Handel and wrote the libretto for the first East German rock opera Rosa Laub .

In 1971 Waldtraut Lewin published her first novel, Mr. Lucius and his black swan . Six years later she gave up her job in Rostock in order to devote herself to writing as a freelance writer. Since 1978 she has lived as a freelance author of novels, short stories, youth novels, historical youth novels (including Everything for Caesar ), biographies (including about Handel and Julius Caesar ), radio plays, libretti, screenplays and non-fiction books. In her final years she specialized in writing for teenagers.

Waldtraut Lewin was awarded the Lion Feuchtwanger Prize and the National Prize of the GDR for her literary work . From 1986 to 1990 she was a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. From 1975 to November 1988 it was run by the GDR Ministry for State Security as IMS "Wald". There is an extensive file of their IM reports in the BStU archive .

The author Miriam Margraf (Hannah M. Margraf), with whom Lewin collaborated several times in literary terms, is her daughter.

Waldtraut Lewin died in Berlin in May 2017 at the age of 80.

Works

  • Mr. Lucius and his black swan (1973)
  • The Doctor of Lakros (1977)
  • Catacombs and Strawberries (1977)
  • The silent Romans (1979)
  • Gaius Julius Caesar (1980)
  • Victoria from beyond the fence. Three fairy tales about love (1981). As an e-book 2011, EditionDigital ISBN 978-3-86394-196-3
  • The son of the eagle, the garbage man and the ugliest woman in the world (1981). As an e-book 2011, EditionDigital ISBN 978-3-86394-314-1
  • Foreign masters garden. 10 days sicily (1982)
  • The Owl and the Darkness (1982)
  • Cuckoo Calls and Slaps (1983)
  • Federico (1984), in Freese: ISBN 3-88942-004-4
  • Georg Friedrich Händel (with Hannah M. Margraf , 1984)
  • Waterloo is in Belgium (1985)
  • Villa in the rain. Impressions from Toscana (1986), ISBN 3-355-00138-4
  • Addio, Bradamante. 3 Stories from Italy (1986), ISBN 3-358-00752-9
  • Fairy Tales from the Hills (1986), ISBN 3-358-00630-1
  • Poros and Mahamaya. A Tale from Ancient India (1987), ISBN 3-358-00950-5
  • The Magic Menagerie (1988)
  • Love Contest (1989)
  • A Guy Called Lompin (1989)
  • Travels in Italy (1989)
  • Fat Woman on Balcony (1994)
  • Old Dog on Three Legs (1995)
  • Everything for Caesar (1996)
  • Jochanaan in the cistern (1996)
  • Dogs in the City (1996)
  • The women of Colchis (1996)
  • Beyond the Sea: Freedom (1997)
  • Mrs. Quade Breaks the Bank (1997)
  • Little fish eats big fish (1997)
  • Island of Hope (1998)
  • Mrs. Quade's World Collapses (1998)
  • Luise, Hinterhof Nord (A House in Berlin 1890) (1999)
  • Paula's Cat (A House in Berlin 1935) (1999)
  • Common Swift (A House in Berlin 1989) (1999)
  • Daughter of the Skies (2000)
  • The Curse (2000)
  • Coming from the Steppe (2002)
  • Moon over Marrakech (2003)
  • Weiberwirtschaft (2004)
  • Goethe (2004), e-book: Verlagsgruppe Random House, ISBN 978-3-641-01167-3
  • Marek and Maria (2004)
  • When the Night is Deepest (2005)
  • Man's Business (2005)
  • Samoa (2005)
  • The mask of the wolf
  • The Last Rose of Summer (2005)
  • Columbus (2006), e-book: Random House Publishing Group, ISBN 978-3-641-01461-2
  • See you in Berlin (2006)
  • Arthurian Legends (2007)
  • Three characters are one word (2007)
  • Three signs are the truth . 2008. ISBN 978-3-570-13079-7 , e-book: Verlagsgruppe Random House, ISBN 978-3-641-01430-8
  • Greek legends. Selected and retold, Verlag Loewe, Bindlach 2008, ISBN 978-3-7855-6202-4
  • Leonie Lasker, Jewish. Part 1: The three characters, Verlag cbj, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-40003-6
  • Leonie Lasker, Jewish. Part 2: Dark shadows, Verlag cbj, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-40004-3
  • Leonie Lasker, Jewish. Part 3: World in Flames, Verlag cbj, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-40020-3
  • The Jewess of Constantinople. Roman, Knaur-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-50430-7
  • Valada's sinking gardens. Roman, Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-21344-8
  • Leo Baeck. Story of a German Jew. A biography of a novel, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2012, ISBN 978-3-579-06563-2
  • The wind carries the words. Book 1. From the time of legends to the end of the Middle Ages, Verlag cbj, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-13482-5
  • Roman legends. Selected and retold, Verlag Loewe, Bindlach 2013, ISBN 978-3-7855-6353-3
  • The wind carries the words. Book 2. From modern times to the present, Verlag cbj, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-13483-2
  • Don't call me by my name, A girl on board the Exodus, Verlag cbj, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-40228-3
  • Fire. The Luther Roman, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2014, ISBN 978-3-579-06587-8
  • The double wall dress. Roman, 175er Verlag, Hartha 2015, ISBN 978-3-932429-09-5
  • If you were with me now An Approach to Anne Frank, cbj, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-17108-0

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Waldtraut Lewin - writer and author. In: wlewin.de. Waldtraut Lewin, May 21, 2017, accessed on May 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ (District Court Dept. Neustadt GN VII. 447)
  3. ↑ Joachim Walther: Security area literature . Ch.Links Verlag, Berlin, 1996.
  4. ↑ Christoph Rink: Chronology of the Handel price . In: Announcements of the Friends and Sponsors of the Handel House in Halle eV 1/2012, pp. 20–25, here: p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Lewin, Waldtraut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge and writer, director
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode , Province of Saxony , Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 20th May 2017
Place of death Berlin , Germany