Wera kitchen master

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Wera kitchen master , b. Skupin (born October 18, 1929 in Berlin , † April 6, 2013 in Blankensee ), was a German writer .

Life

Wera Skupin was born in 1929 as the daughter of the communist carpenter Boleslaw Czekalla and the employee Gertrud Skupin. She attended school in Berlin and passed the school leaving examination there. In 1949 she began studying at the German Theater Institute in Weimar . There she met her future husband Claus Küchenmeister , whom she married in 1952.

From 1951 to 1954 she was a master class student at the Berliner Ensemble Bertolt Brechts , where, in addition to her work as an assistant director, she was also involved in setting up the party organization . In 1960 she received a diploma from the East Berlin German Academy of the Arts for her work with the Berliner Ensemble . Wera Küchenmeister worked as a dramaturge and from 1963 to 1966 as a lecturer at the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg . From 1966 to 1968 she was chief dramaturge at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in East Berlin , from 1969 to 1973 secretary of the film advisory board at the Ministry of Culture and from 1973 to 1976 she was responsible for artistic film in the main film administration of the Ministry of Culture. From 1975 worked as a scenarioist for the DEFA feature film studio .

She and her husband Claus worked under the code names "Sonja" and "Kaminski" at the latest from 1964 with interruption until 1979 for the Ministry for State Security of the GDR.

Wera chef wrote beside numerous screenplays for the DEFA since the fifties novels , children's books and poetry .

Most of her literary works were created in collaboration with her husband Claus Küchenmeister .

Wera Küchenmeister was a member of the GDR Writers' Association from 1957 to 1990 , and has been a member of the board since 1968. In 1990 she became a member of the Association of German Writers . She received u. a. The following awards: 1958 the Ernst Zinna Prize, 1949 the Heinrich Greif Prize , 1964 the GDR Medal of Merit , 1965 the Clara Zetkin Medal , 1968 the Erich Weinert Medal , 1971 the National Prize 1st Class and the Art Prize of the FDGB and 1980 the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. She received the National People's Army Medal of Merit in Silver in 1970.

She last lived with her husband in Ludwigsfelde-Siethen and died in April 2013.

Works

  • Mrs. Holle , Berlin 1954 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • The Forest Festival of Animals , Berlin 1954 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Little and Big Klaus , Berlin 1955 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Back then eighteen, nineteen , Berlin 1958 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Judith's wonderful ball , Berlin 1961 (together with Claus Küchenmeister and Bert Heller)
  • Daniel and the world champion , Berlin 1962 (together with Claus Küchenmeister and Erich Gürtzig )
  • They called him Amigo , Berlin 1962 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Daniel and the painter , Berlin 1963 (together with Claus Küchenmeister and Erich Gürtzig)
  • The city for fun , Berlin 1966
  • On the ABC-Stern , Berlin 1967 (together with Gertrud Zucker )
  • When Thälmann was still a boy , Berlin 1976 (together with Claus Küchenmeister and Volker Koepp)
  • Daniel and his Martha , Berlin 1977 (together with Claus Küchenmeister and Hans-Dieter Bartel)
  • Ina , Berlin 1978 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Shots in January , two parts, Berlin 1978 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • The man from the dark , Berlin 1979 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Vom redspeckelte Spatzen , Berlin 1980 (together with Füruzan and Claus Küchenmeister)
  • If I want, I'm a rabbit , Berlin 1981 (together with Claus Küchenmeister and Konrad Golz)
  • At the hour of the pit horse , Berlin 1981 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Das Märchen vom Hahn , Berlin 1982 (together with Claus Küchenmeister and Franz Zauleck)
  • Reindeer Secrets , Berlin 1984 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • You have to discourage a talent ... , Berlin 1986 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Around the corner in Berlin , Berlin 1986 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Der Lude , Berlin 1987 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Truth as found in old fairy tales , Berlin 1989 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Blankensee , Schwedt / O. 1994 (together with Claus Küchenmeister and Sara Harten)

Film scripts

Unless otherwise stated with Claus Küchemeister:

Radio plays

Editing

  • Martin Hayneccius : Hans Pfriem or boldness pays off , Leipzig 1955 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Horse, you my white one , Berlin 1975 (together with Marcela Lopez and Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Andreas Alariesto : Magician, Devil and Lemmings , Berlin 1981 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Víctor Carvajal : The dispute about the doll , Berlin 1981 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Elfriede Paul : A consulting room in the Red Orchestra , Berlin 1981
  • Pictures from dark times , Berlin 1984 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)
  • Lope de Vega : Julian or Das prophetische Tier , Jütchendorf 1995 (together with Claus Küchenmeister)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Joachim Walther - Security Area Literature" Christof Links Verlag, Berlin 1996
  2. ^ Family obituary notice. In: Berliner Zeitung, 13/14. April 2013, p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Head chef, Wera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skupin, Wera (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2013
Place of death Blankensee