Gabriele Wohmann (née Guyot; 21 May 1932 – 22 June 2015) was a German

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...

, and short story writer.

Life

Wohmann was born in

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. She attended the Nordseepädagogium on the island

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as a boarding school. She studied at

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from 1951 to 1953. She then worked as a teacher at her former school to Langeoog, at a community college, and a business school. In 1953, she married Reiner Wohmann. She lived as a freelance writer in Darmstadt since 1956. Wohmann died on June 23, 2015, after struggling for a long time with serious illness in the place of her birth, Darmstadt.

Career

Wohmann authored short stories, novels, poems, radio plays, television plays, and essays. She attended meetings of the

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. She was a member of the

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since 1975, and the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt since 1980. She was a member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1960 to 1988.

Works

*''Jetzt und Nie'', Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1958 *''Abschied für länger'', Walter, Olten/Freiburg im Breisgau, 1965 *''Ernste Absicht'', Luchterhand Verlag, Berlin/Neuwied, 1970 *''Paulinchen war allein zu Haus'', Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1974 *''Schönes Gehege'', Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1975 *''Ausflug mit der Mutter'', Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1976 *''Frühherbst in Badenweiler'', Luchterhand, Darmstadt, 1978 *''Ach wie gut daß niemand weiß,'' Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1980 *''Das Glücksspiel'', Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1981 *''Der Flötenton'', Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1987 *''Bitte nicht sterben'', Piper, München, 1993 *''Aber das war noch nicht das Schlimmste'', Piper, München, 1995 *''Das Handicap,'' Piper, München, 1996 *''Das Hallenbad'', Piper, München, 2000 *''Abschied von der Schwester'', Pendo, Zürich/München, 2001 *''Schön und gut'', Piper, München, 2002 *''Hol mich einfach ab'', Piper, München, 2003

Works in English

*''Selected Translations of Gabriele Wohmann'', Steven Walter Eau Claire, University of Iowa, 1984 *''A Sea Resort'', Translator Steven W. Eau Claire, The Journal of Literary Translation, Volume XVI, Spring 1986 *''The Piano Lesson'', Translator Steven W. Eau Claire, The Amherst Review, Volume XIV, 1986 *''A Party in the Country'', Translator Steve Eau Claire, The Antioch Review, Volume 45, Number 3, Summer 1987 *''The cherry tree'', Translator Jeanne Willson, Dimension, 1994, *

References

External links

"So spannend ist das Leben nicht"
''Berliner Zeitung'', Benoît Pivert, 18 May 2002 *Günter Häntzschel, ''Gabriele Wohmann'', Beck, 1982, {{DEFAULTSORT:Wohmann, Gabriele 1932 births 2015 deaths 20th-century German educators German women novelists Writers from Darmstadt 20th-century German novelists 20th-century German women writers Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Recipients of the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg