Anneliese Probst
Anneliese Probst was a German writer.
Life
Born in Düsseldorf, Probst had lived in Halle (Saale) since 1933. She attended a Gymnasium, where she passed the Abitur in 1944. In the same year, she married the lawyer Matthias Probst. Three children were born. From 1946, Anneliese Probst wrote literary works. In 1952/53 she worked as a dramaturge for the DEFA children's film studio. After the death of her first husband, she married the pastor Christof Seidler in 1971. She became a member of the CDU and was city councillor. In 1978 the couple moved to Beesenstedt, where Seidler worked as a pastor until 1994. After the death of her second husband in 1997, Anneliese Probst lived in a retirement home in near Halle.
Probst was the author of children's books and youth books and also of novels for adults. From the 1960s, her works appeared mainly in the confessional publishing houses "Evangelische Verlagsanstalt" and "". Her works made 1.7 million copies.
Probst was a member of the Deutscher Schriftstellerverband. In 1990, she was one of the co-founders of the "Förderkreis der Schriftsteller in Sachsen-Anhalt". She drew the ideas for her books from her everyday experience, but also from overheard sentences or notes from the newspaper, and from confronting and dealing with problems in the course of her city council duties. She named her basic motive: "Let us not love with words, but with deeds and with truth".
In 1986, she was awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle District.
Work
Der unsterbliche Kaschtschej, Halle 1947Der Zauberfisch, Halle 1947Die steinerne Blume, Halle 1948Das Zauberkorn. Der "singende Vogel". Die Wunderblume, Halle 1948Die Gazelle, Halle 1949Das Wunderpferdchen und andere russische Volksmärchen, Halle 1950Schnurz, Berlin 1953 Sagen und Märchen aus dem Harz, Berlin 1954Der steinerne Mühlmann, Berlin 1954 Schulgeschichten, Berlin 1955Sommertage, Berlin 1955Gespenstergeschichten, Berlin 1956Der steinerne Mühlmann, Berlin 1956Begegnung am Meer, Weimar 1957Ferien mit Susanne, Rodenkirchen/Köln 1957Sagen und Märchen aus Thüringen, Berlin 1957Die Geigerin, Berlin 1958Einsteigen bitte!, Berlin 1959Geschichten aus der 3a, Berlin 1960Ich … und Du, Berlin 1960Sabine und Martin, Berlin 1960Nein, diese Hanne!, Berlin 1961Wir brauchen euch beide, Berlin 1962Altweibersommer, Berlin 1964Die fröhliche Insel, Berlin 1964Menschen in der Heiligen Nacht, Berlin 1965Reifeprüfung, Berlin 1965Schatten, Berlin 1965Die verborgene Schuld, Berlin 1966Die letzten großen Ferien, Berlin 1967Die Pause, Berlin 1969Das Wiedersehen und andere Erzählungen über die Kunst, in Gelassenheit alt zu werden, Berlin 1970Menschen wie ich und du, Berlin 1971Die schöne Kuline, Berlin 1971Träumen mit der Feder, Berlin 1971Das Fräulein vom Hochhaus, Berlin 1972Ein Zeltschein für Dierhagen, Berlin 1972Die fünf aus Nr. 19, Berlin 1974Vergiß die kleinen Schritte nicht, Berlin 1974Die Christvesper oder Das Weihnachtsläuten von St. Martin, Berlin 1975Das weiße Porzellanpferd, Berlin 1976Die unentwegte Großmutter, Berlin 1978Karlchen oder Die Geschichte von der Eisernen Hochzeit, Berlin 1979Nenni kündigt nicht, Berlin 1980Die Legende vom Engel Ambrosio, Berlin 1981Unterwegs nach Gutwill, Berlin 1982Rund um den Taubenturm, Berlin 1984Stationen, Berlin 1984Hinkefüßchen, Niederwiesa 1986Orchesterprobe, Berlin 1986Lieber Gott, hörst du mich?, Constance 1987Annettes Stern, Berlin 1989Traumtänzerin, Berlin 1991Mein Wintertagebuch, Gößnitz 1995Anneliese Probst, Halle 1996Von Whisky, Wodka und anderen Lieblingen, Querfurt 1996Das lange Gespräch, Querfurt 1999Auf der Suche nach dem Kind, Leipzig 2000Steh-auf-Lieschen, Querfurt 2000Die steinerne Blume, Leipzig 2001Katzensommer, Querfurt 2003Tobias Kullerauge und andere Gute-Nacht-Geschichten, Halle 2005
Awards