Marliese Echner-Klingmann (born 26 January 1937) is a German poet and playwright.

Biography

Born as Marie-Elisabeth Echner in Heidelberg

Heidelberg

-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...

, Echner-Klingmann grew up in Eschelbronn

Eschelbronn

Eschelbronn is a village with 2,597 inhabitants in the Rhein-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is adjacent to Sinsheim.- History :...

, where she still lives. She worked as an office administration clerk until her marriage in 1959. She has two children: Michael (born 1961) and Christiane (born 1964).

Writing

She began writing at the end of the 1960s.

In 1988 she founded an acting-group called "Sellemols" in Eschelbronn.

In 2008 she was awarded the :de:Heimatmedaille des Landes Baden-Württemberg:Heimatmedaille des Landes Baden-Württemberg.

Fiction

• with Ilse Rohnacher: Stoppelfelder streichle. Mundartgedichte. Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau, 1984
• with Ilse Rohnacher: Du un ich. Mundartgedichte. Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt, Heidelberg, 1988
• with Ilse Rohnacher: Blädderraschle Mundartgedichte. C. Winter, Heidelberg, 1996
• Dorfgeschichten in Mundart und Schriftdeutsch. Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe, 2004
• Kraichgauer Wortschatz. Wörter und Wendungen aus dem Östlichen Kraichgau. Hrsg. vom Heimatverein Kraichgau Eppingen, Druckerei Odenwälder, Buchen, 2001

Plays

• Sellemols. Vom Leineweber- zum Schreinerdorf (1989)
• Veronika Seyfert (1993)
• Aus der Lisbeth ihrm Tagebuch. E Dorf em Kraichgau vun 1939 bis 1945 (1996)
• S Leewe geht weiter - E Dorf em Kraichgau vun 1945 bis 1954 (2002)
• Zuzenhausen, ein Dorf an der Elsenz (2004)
• Dorfleewe, wud Groußeltern noch Kinner ware (2008)