Rosemarie Schuder


Rosemarie Schuder was a German writer.

Life

Rosemarie Schuder came from a middle-class family in Jena. She attended a girls' school and took the Abitur in 1947. Subsequently she worked as a freelance journalist for the East German newspaper Tägliche Rundschau and Neue Zeit. She interned for hands on experience at the Jena Glassworks in 1952. From 1957 to 1959, she underwent a study abroad in Italy. Since 1958, she has been married to writer Rudolf Hirsch and lives as a freelance writer in Berlin.
Schuder was the writer of numerous historical novels in which she dealt with primarily themes from German history like the Münster Rebellion of 1534 or the fate of important people like Paracelsus, Johannes Kepler and Michelangelo.
Schuder belonged to the P.E.N.-Zentrum of East Germany since 1978 being a member of the PEN-Zentrums Deutschland as well as the Deutsche Schillergesellschaft. Since 1951 she belonged to the Ost-CDU ending with her withdrawal from the party in March 1990. She received the 1958 Heinrich Mann Prize, the National Prize of East Germany in each 1969, 1978 and 1988, the 1976 Lion Feuchtwanger Prize as well as the 1988.
She died in May 2018 in Berlin.

Works

Glas, Leipzig 1952Die Strumpfwirker, Berlin 1953Ich hab's gewagt, Berlin 1954Der Ketzer von Naumburg, Berlin 1955Meine Sichel ist scharf, Berlin 1955Paracelsus, Berlin 1955Der Sohn der Hexe, Berlin 1957In der Mühle des Teufels, Berlin 1959Der Tag von Rocca di Campo, Berlin 1959Die Störche von Langenbach, Berlin 1961Der Gefesselte, Berlin 1962Die zerschlagene Madonna, Berlin 1964Tartuffe 63 oder Die Ehe der Michaela Schlieker, Berlin 1965Die Erleuchteten oder Das Bild des armen Lazarus zu Münster in Westfalen, von wenig Furchtsamen auch der Terror der Liebe genannt, Berlin 1968Paracelsus und der Garten der Lüste, Berlin 1972Agrippa und das Schiff der Zufriedenen, Berlin 1977Serveto vor Pilatus, Berlin 1982Der gelbe Fleck, Berlin 1987 Die Bilder der Königin, Berlin 1990Welt und Traum des Hieronymus Bosch, Berlin 1991Botticelli, Berlin 1996Nummer 58866 – Judenkönig, Berlin 1996 Hochverrat oder Seltsame Wege zu Ferdinand Freiligrath, Zürich 2001Deutsches Stiefmutterland, Teetz 2003Der "Fremdling aus dem Osten" / Eduard Lasker – Jude, Liberaler, Gegenspieler Bismarcks, Berlin: Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg 2008

Publishing work

Otto Nuschke, Berlin 1953