Grete Weil

Grete Weil (born Margarete Elisabeth Dispeker the July 18th 1906 in Rottach-Egern; died the May 14th 1999 with Grünwald/Munich) was a German writer E.

Biography

Grete Weil resulted from a family of Jewish lawyers of the upper middle classes of Munich. Ella missed the vat, passed by again it with Frankfurt amndt Hand and studied the German literature with Munich, Berlin and Paris. In 1932 she married Edgar Weill, Dramaturge theater Kammerspiele of Munich.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, Edgar Weil emigrated in the Netherlands. Grete Weil completed a training of photographer in Munich and joined her husband with Amsterdam in 1935. It opened a studio of photography there. After the occupation of the Netherlands by the German army, Edgar Weil was stopped at the time of a raid and deportee with the concentration camp of Mauthausen where he died in 1941. Grete Weil was a time employed by the Judenrat of Amsterdam; as from spring 1943, she lived hidden, in clandestinity.

Grete Weil returned to Germany in 1947. In 1960 she married the director Walter Jockisch and lived with him until the death of this last in 1970. Whereas she had written texts already during the time of clandestinity, she devoted herself in the years 1960 especially to the translation. She was her first successes as a auteure with the novels " Tramhalte Beethovenstraat" and " Meine Schwester Antigone" . The experiments of the German Jews, in exile or not, play a great part in works of Grete Weill; later it will be devoted to the problem of old age and the history of its life.

Distinctions

Grete Weil, which was member of PEN club of Germany received the following distinctions:
  • Price Wilhelmine Lübke (1980)
  • Price Tukan of the town of Munich (1983)
  • Price brother and sister Scholl (1988)
  • Medal Carl Zuckmayer (1995).

Works

  • Years Ende der Welt , Berlin 1949

  • Boulevard Loneliness , Mainz 1951
  • Tramhalte Beethovenstraat , Wiesbaden 1963
  • Happy, sagte der Onkel , Wiesbaden 1968
  • Meine Schwester Antigone , Zurich A. 1980
  • Generationen , Zurich A. 1983
  • Der Brautpreis , Zurich A. 1988
  • Spätfolgen , Zurich A. 1992
  • Leb ich denn, wenn andere leben , Zurich A. 1998
  • Erlebnis einer Reise , Zurich 1999

Translations

  • Peter Blackmore: Original und zwei Kopien , Wiesbaden 1959

  • Jeroen Brouwers: Versunkenes Belch , Zurich 1984
  • Thomas Buchanan: Das Einhorn , Wiesbaden 1963
  • Lawrence Durrell: Groddeck , Wiesbaden 1961
  • John Hawkes: Die Leimrute , Wiesbaden 1964
  • Maude Hutchins: Noels Tagebuch , Wiesbaden 1960
  • David Walker: Schottisches Intermezzo , Wiesbaden 1959

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