Eva Strittmatter
Eva Strittmatter, nee Brown ( born February 8, 1930 in Neuruppin, † January 3, 2011 in Berlin) was a German poet and writer.
Life
Eva Strittmatter put 1947 the High School and started at the Humboldt University of Berlin to study German, Romance and pedagogy. In 1950 she married and gave birth in 1951 to a son, Ilya, was born. The marriage, however, was divorced again soon. Even before the divorce, she met Erwin Strittmatter, whom she married in 1956 and with whom she had three other sons, including the author and actor Erwin Berner.
Since 1951, after completing her studies, Eva Strittmatter worked as a freelancer for the German Writers Association of the GDR as an editor. In 1952 she published literary critical work in the literary magazine ndl. From 1953 to 1954 she was a lecturer at the children's book publisher in Berlin. She was also a member of the 1953 ndl Editorial Board. Since 1954 she was a freelance writer. She has published more non-political works, including especially poetry, but also prose for children and adults.
Her and her husband's acquaintances included, among others, the East German writer Hermann Kant and Christa Wolf, but also internationally known writers such as Lew and Halldor Laxness Kopelew. From 1960 to 1972 she undertook in her capacity as a member of the Foreign Commission of the Writers Union of the GDR numerous trips to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. 1993/1994 died within only nine months, her mother, her husband Erwin and her son Matti. She lived in Brandenburg Schulzenhof, where she had moved with her husband in 1957. She was buried in the local cemetery beside her husband.
Works
Poetry
Prose
Children's Books
Autobiographical
- 2008: life and limb, publishing The New Berlin, with IRMTRAUD Gutschke, ISBN 978-3-360-01946-2
- 2009: In another dawn. Poems and self-reports, audio book