Grete Weil

Grete Weil ( born July 18, 1906 as Margarete Elisabeth Dispeker in Rottach -Egern; † 14 May 1999 Gruenwald near Munich) was a German writer.

Life

Grete Weil came from an upper middle-class Jewish family in Munich lawyer. She attended a high school, where they failed in the Baccalaureate in Munich. She took the matriculation examination in Frankfurt am Main after and then studied German in Munich, Berlin and Paris. It belonged to the circle of friends around the siblings Erika and Klaus Mann, whose father Thomas Mann was one of their literary models. In 1932 she married the dramaturg at the Munich Chamber Play Edgar Weil. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 emigrated Edgar Weil, who had been temporarily taken by the Nazis into " protective custody " in the Netherlands. Grete Weil gave promotion plans, completed in Munich trained as a photographer and followed her husband in 1935 to Amsterdam. It operated there a photography studio. After the German occupation of the Netherlands, her husband was arrested in a raid and killed in 1941 at the Mauthausen concentration camp. Grete Weil was employed for a time at the Amsterdam Jewish Council; From autumn 1943, she lived in hiding in hiding.

In 1947 he and Grete Weil returned to Germany. From 1960 until his death in 1970, she was married to the opera director Walter Jokisch. After she began already in the ground with the writing of literary texts, she worked in the sixties, mainly as a translator. Their first success with his own texts they had with the novels " tram Beethovenstraat " and " My sister Antigone ". In Grete Weil's works play the experiences of German Jews, even in exile, a major role; later they treated, among other problems of aging as well as their own life story.

Grete Weil, a member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany was received the following awards: 1980 Wilhelmine Lübke Price, 1983 Tukan Prize of the city of Munich in 1988 the siblings Scholl Prize, 1995 Carl Zuckmayer medal.

Works

  • End of the World, Berlin 1949
  • Boulevard Solitude, Mainz 1951
  • Tram Beethovenstraat, Wiesbaden 1963
  • Happy, the uncle, Wiesbaden said in 1968
  • My sister Antigone, Zurich [u a ] 1980
  • Generations, Zurich [u a ] 1983
  • The bride price, Zurich [u a ] 1988
  • Late effects, Zurich [u a ] 1992
  • Leb I, unless other life, Zurich [u a ] 1998
  • Experience a journey, Zurich 1999

Translations

  • Peter Blackmore: original and two copies, Wiesbaden 1959
  • Jeroen Brouwers: Sunken Red, Zurich 1984
  • Thomas Buchanan: The Unicorn, Wiesbaden 1963
  • Lawrence Durrell: GRODDECK, Wiesbaden 1961
  • John Hawkes: The flypaper, Wiesbaden 1964
  • Maude Hutchins: Noel's diary, Wiesbaden 1960
  • David Walker: Scottish Intermezzo, Wiesbaden 1959
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