Margarete Neumann was a German

Germany

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 writer

Writer

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 and lyrical poet.

Life

Margarete Neumann was born in Pyritz

Pyrzyce

Pyrzyce , is a town in Pomerania, north-western Poland, with 13,331 inhabitants Capital of the Pyrzyce County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship , previously in Szczecin Voivodeship .-History:...

, Pomerania

Pomerania

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. She studied at the social educational seminar in Königsberg

Königsberg

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 and worked until 1945 as a welfare worker in Heilsberg

Lidzbark Warminski

Lidzbark Warmiński is a town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the capital of Lidzbark County.- History :The town was originally an Old Prussian settlement known as Lecbarg until being conquered in 1240 by the Teutonic Knights, who called it Heilsberg...

. After being expelled from Poland to Germany in 1945, she was a farmer in Mecklenburg

Mecklenburg

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 and a welder in Halle (Saale)

Halle, Saxony-Anhalt

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. Since 1952 she lived as a free lance writer in Hohen Neuendorf

Hohen Neuendorf

Hohen Neuendorf is a town in the Oberhavel district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is located north west of Berlin.-Geography:Hohen Neuendorf is situated upon the Havel river and is bordered by the Berlin area Frohnau to the south, Muehlenbeck to the east, Birkenwerder and Oranienburg to the north,...

 then in Neubrandenburg

Neubrandenburg

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 after 1961. She was allowed as a partisanship writer and advocate of socialist realism

Socialist realism

Socialist realism is a style of realistic art which was developed in the Soviet Union and became a dominant style in other communist countries. Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style having its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism...

 in East Germany.

After the Wende, Neumann lived in Sousse

Sousse

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, Tunisia

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 from 1991 to 2001. She succumbed to cancer on March 4, 2002 in Rostock

Rostock

Rostock -Early history:In the 11th century Polabian Slavs founded a settlement at the Warnow river called Roztoc ; the name Rostock is derived from that designation. The Danish king Valdemar I set the town aflame in 1161.Afterwards the place was settled by German traders...

. The grave of the author is found in Mallin

Mallin

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.

Works

• Der Weg über den Acker (The way over the Acker), Novel, 1955
• Lene Bastians Geschichte (Lene Bastian's History), Novellas, 1956
• Der lange Weg (The Long Way), Narrative, 1958
• Brot auf hölzerner Schale (Bread from the Wooden Bowl), Poems, 1959
• Elisabeth, Narrative, 1960
• Rumpelstilzchen, Radio play, 1960
• Das Aprikosenbäumchen (The Little Apricot Tree), Children's Book, 1960
• Der Wunderbaum (The Wonder Tree), Children's Book, 1960
• Der Spiegel (The Mirror), Narrative, 1962
• Der Totengräber (The Dead Graves), Novel, 1963
• ... und sie liebten sich doch (.. and they loved themselves nevertheless), Novel, 1966
• Die Liebenden (The Beloved), Novel, 1970
• Der grüne Salon (The Green Salon), Novel, 1972
• Magda Adomeit, Novel, 1985
• Dies ist mein Leben ... (This is my Life ...), Narrative cycle, 1987
• Nach einem sehr langen Winter (After a very long Winter). Selected Stories 1956-1987, Aufbau Verlag 1989
• Der Geistkämpfer. 2 Novellen um Barlach (The Ghost Fighter. 2 Novellas about Barlach), Aufbau Verlag 1990
• Da Abend und Morgen einander berühren Die Webers und die Adomeits (The Webers and the Adomeits affect each other that evening and morning). Novel, Aufbau Verlag 1990

External links

• Literature by and on Margarete Neumann in the catalog of the German National Library
  German National Library
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• Literature about Margarete Neumann in the Landesbibliographie Mecklenburg-Vorpommern