Gabriele Wohlmann
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Gabriele Wohmann (born May 21, 1932 in Darmstadt
) is a German novelist, and short story writer.
She then worked as a teacher at her former school to Langeoog, at a community college, and a business school.
In 1953, she married Reiner Wohmann. She has lived as a freelance writer in Darmstadt since 1956.
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She is a Member of the Berlin Academy of Arts since 1975, and the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt since 1980. She was a member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1960 to 1988.
Darmstadt
Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
) is a German novelist, and short story writer.
Life
She attended the Nordseepädagogium on the island Langeoog as a boarding school. She studied at Frankfurt am Main, from 1951 to 1953.She then worked as a teacher at her former school to Langeoog, at a community college, and a business school.
In 1953, she married Reiner Wohmann. She has lived as a freelance writer in Darmstadt since 1956.
Career
She is the author of short stories, novels, poems, radio plays, television plays and essays. She is considered a sharp observer. She attended meetings of the Group 47Group 47
Gruppe 47 was an influential literary association in Germany after World War II. '47' Stands for the year of their creation, 1947.-Early history:The beginnings reach back to1946 when Alfred Andersch and Walter Kolbenhoff founded the literary...
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She is a Member of the Berlin Academy of Arts since 1975, and the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt since 1980. She was a member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1960 to 1988.
Works
- Hol mich einfach ab, Piper, München 2003
- Schön und gut, Piper, München 2002
- Abschied von der Schwester, Pendo, Zürich/München 2001
- Das Hallenbad, Piper, München 2000
- Das Handicap, Piper, München 1996
- Aber das war noch nicht das Schlimmste, Piper, München 1995
- Bitte nicht sterben, Piper, München 1993
- Der Flötenton, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1987
- Das Glücksspiel, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1981
- Ach wie gut daß niemand weiß, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1980
- Frühherbst in Badenweiler, Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1978
- Ausflug mit der Mutter, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1976
- Schönes Gehege, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1975
- Paulinchen war allein zu Haus, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1974
- Ernste Absicht, Luchterhand Verlag, Berlin/Neuwied 1970
- Abschied für länger, Walter, Olten/Freiburg im Breisgau 1965
- Jetzt und Nie, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1958
Works in English
- The cherry tree, Translator Jeanne Willson, Dimension Press, 1994, ISBN 9780911173055
- Siblings, John Harding, Fricke Pub., 1982, ISBN 9783881840521
- Selected translations of Gabriele Wohmann, Steven Walter, University of Iowa, 1984
External links
- "So spannend ist das Leben nicht", Berliner Zeitung, Benoît Pivert, 18 May 2002
- Günter Häntzschel, Gabriele Wohmann, Beck, 1982, ISBN 9783406086915