Gisela Karau

Gisela Karau (nee Wilczynski; born March 28, 1932 in Berlin, † April 9, 2010 ibid ) was a German writer, who (GDR) became acquainted with topics from recent history, especially in the German Democratic Republic by a series of children's books.

Life

Gisela Karau was born in Berlin in 1932 and completed after graduating from high school in 1950, a five-year apprenticeship as an editor at the Berlin newspaper BZ in the evening, for which she was also working as a freelance reporter and columnist until 1990. In the 1960s, she began to write children's books. Her first work, which achieved a greater level of awareness and was reissued by different publishers even after 1990, the book was good, the star of Janusz K. (1972 ) on the fate of Polish children in the concentration camp Buchenwald. More popular in the GDR children's books by her were, for example, may I say to you, Wilhelm? (1979 ) on the life of Wilhelm Pieck and Loni (1982 ) about a girl in Berlin in the years after the Second World War. In addition, she wrote screenplays for a number of children DEFA films, so on the basis of her book The Good Star of Janusz K. the screenplay for the film My Blue Bird flies.

Were among her published in the GDR books for adults, for example, the novels Love Berlin (1984) and family row (1988). In 1986 she was awarded the Goethe Prize of the city of Berlin. After German reunification she published several novels which deal with the fates of people in the GDR, in the turn time and in East Germany in the period after 1990. In addition, she wrote, among others, Bolle, the friendly dog (1994 ), Kisses on Ice (1997) and This is the best family before (2003) more children's books.

Gisela Karau was married to the writer Günter crucian and mother of two children. After her first husband died in 1986, she married in 1988, 18 years his junior, Hans -Jürgen Dörry. She died in 2010 in a Berlin hospital.

Works (selection)

Children and Youth books:

  • The good star of Janusz K. Kinderbuchverlag Berlin, Berlin 1972
  • May I say to you, Wilhelm? Children's book publishing house Berlin, Berlin 1979
  • Loni. Children's book publishing house Berlin, Berlin 1982
  • Bolle, the friendly dog. Kiro -Verlag, 1994 Schwedt
  • Kisses on ice. Karl- Dietz -Verlag, Berlin 1997
  • This happens in the best families. Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2003
  • Tony and Ali. Pictures at an early love. Edition Hamouda, Leipzig 2007
  • Cosima. Love in Sanssouci. Edition Hamouda, Leipzig 2007
  • Franzi, very cool. Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2005

Novels:

  • Berlin love. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1984
  • Family quarrel. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1988
  • A made ​​man. New Life Publishing, 1991
  • Martha's house or the head in the basement. Kiro -Verlag, 1994 Schwedt
  • Busch allowance. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1996
  • Go West, Go East. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1998

Collected feature pages:

  • State Secretariat for West German questions (eds.): Socialist everyday life in the GDR - Experience and outlined by Gisela Karau. Series: First-hand. Berlin 1970
  • Stasi protocols " conversations with former employees of the Stasi of East Germany, dipa - Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 1992
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