Tamara Ehlert, aka Tamara Traumann (born 28 December, 1921, in Königsberg

Königsberg

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, now Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad

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; died 8 September, 2008, in Munich

Munich

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) was a German

Germany

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 writer and lyricist. Trained in theatre and dance, during the Second World War she worked as a telephone

Telephone

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 and radio

Radio

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 operator. She worked as an interpreter for the British occupation government after the war. From 1951 onwards, she was employed by the Bayerischer Rundfunk

Bayerischer Rundfunk

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.

Her first publication was in the Königsberger Tageblatt in 1938, and after 1945 her poems and short stories were regularly in print.

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Awards

• Award of Brentano book publishing department, Stuttgart (1954)
• Nicolaus Copernicus Award (1970)
• Andreas Gryphius
  Andreas Gryphius
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  Award (1976)