Margarete Neumann


Margarete Neumann was a German writer and lyrical poet.

Life

Margarete Neumann was born in Pyritz, Pomerania, German Empire. She studied at the social educational seminar in Königsberg and worked until 1945 as a welfare worker in Heilsberg. After being expelled from Poland to Germany in 1945, she was a farmer in Mecklenburg and a welder in Halle (Saale). Since 1952 she lived as a freelance writer in Hohen Neuendorf then in Neubrandenburg after 1961. She was allowed as a partisanship writer and advocate of socialist realism in East Germany.
After the Wende, Neumann lived in Sousse, Tunisia from 1991 to 2001. She succumbed to cancer on 4 March 2002 in Rostock. The grave of the author is found in Mallin.

Works

Der Weg über den Acker, Novel, 1955Lene Bastians Geschichte, Novellas, 1956Der lange Weg, Narrative, 1958Brot auf hölzerner Schale, Poems, 1959Elisabeth, Narrative, 1960Rumpelstilzchen, Radio play, 1960Das Aprikosenbäumchen, Children's Book, 1960Der Wunderbaum, Children's Book, 1960Der Spiegel, Narrative, 1962Der Totengräber, Novel, 1963... und sie liebten sich doch, Novel, 1966Die Liebenden, Novel, 1970Der grüne Salon, Novel, 1972Magda Adomeit, Novel, 1985Land der grüngoldenen Berge: Unterwegs in Mongolien, Novel, 1986Dies ist mein Leben..., Narrative cycle, 1987Nach einem sehr langen Winter. Selected Stories 1956–1987, Aufbau Verlag 1989Der Geistkämpfer. 2 Novellen um Barlach, Aufbau Verlag 1990Da Abend und Morgen einander berühren Die Webers und die Adomeits. Novel, Aufbau Verlag 1990

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