Wiebke von Thadden

Wiebke von Thadden (* 7 July 1931 in Tübingen as Wiebke Fesefeldt ) is a German writer .

Life

The daughter of the physicist Hans Fesefeldt and von Ilse Hoffmann first studied history and Latin philology in Göttingen and received her doctorate in 1957 with a study on the English state theorist Henry de Bracton . In addition to studies on the history of Lower Saxony, she published numerous reviews and essays, such as for the Chronik Göttingen: Geschichte einer Universitätsstadt , to which she contributed the section on the history of the city under British military administration 1945–1947.

Wiebke von Thadden, who lives as a freelance writer in Göttingen, became known to a wide readership through her historical youth novels . In her novels she deals with the time of Charlemagne , the Ottonians ( Tiza in the king's spell ), the Staufer ( Philip between emperor and king ) and the printing press ( Thomas and the black art ). In her work A Daughter Is Not a Son , published in 2000 , she also portrayed the story of girls from antiquity to the 19th century, thus making a contribution to prejudice research that has since been translated into numerous languages, including Greek, Latvian and Spanish.

Since 1958 she was married to the historian Rudolf von Thadden († 2015). Her daughter Elisabeth von Thadden (* 1961) also works as a writer and editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . Her son Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden (* 1959) is the rector of the University of Mannheim .

Awards

• 1982 Pocket Book of the Month of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature ( Brun, Geisel des König ).

Works (selection)

• 1962 English state theory of the 13th century , Göttingen: Muster-Schmidt.
• 1962 The beginning of communal life in Göttingen: the city from 1945 to 1948 , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht .
• 1982 Brun, hostage of the king in the kingdom of the Franks. From the Kingdom of the Franks to the Empire in Aachen , Munich: dtv junior, ISBN 3-423-07929-0 .
• 1986 Tiza under the king's spell. Out and about in the realm of the Ottonians , Munich: dtv junior, ISBN 3-423-79014-8 .
• 1989 Philipp between Kaiser and König , Munich: dtv.
• 1990 Judith, the young prioress , Zurich: Artemis.
• 1996 Thomas and Black Art , Hamburg: Carlsen.
• 1997 The world of knights , Rheda-Wiedenbrück: Bertelsmann.
• 2000 A daughter is not a son. The story of the girls , Weinheim: Beltz & Gelberg.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wiebke von Thadden in the catalog of the German National Library