Hedda Zinner
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| Born | Hedda Zinner 20 May 1905 Lviv (then Lemberg), Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 1 July 1994 (aged 90) Berlin, Germany |
| Pen name | Elisabeth Frank, Hannchen Lobesam, Hedda |
| Language | German |
| Nationality | German |
| Spouse | Fritz Erpenbeck |
Hedda Zinner, or Hedda Erpenbeck-Zinner (20 May 1904 – 1 July 1994), was a German political writer, actress, comedian, journalist and radio director.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Hedda Zinner was born in Lviv (then known as Lemberg) on 20 May 1904. She attended the Acting Academy there from 1923 to 1925. Zinner began working as an actress but her interest in the workers' movement led her to move to Berlin.
She married Fritz Erpenbeck there in 1927 and, in 1929, joined the Communist Party of Germany. She became a journalist for left-wing journals. When Hitler came to power, she and her husband moved to Vienna and then Prague, where she founded the cabaret Studio 34 in 1934. In 1935 they emigrated to Moscow. After the Second World War, they returned to Germany and settled in East Berlin.[1] In 1980, Zinner was awarded the Order of Karl Marx.[2]
Zinner also wrote under the pseudonym Elisabeth Frank. Her granddaughter is the writer Jenny Erpenbeck.
Works
[edit | edit source]- Nur eine Frau [Only a Woman] (1954). A novel about the life of Louise Otto-Peters.
- Ahnen und Erben [Ancestors and Inheritors] (1968). Vol. 1 of her autobiography.
- Die Schwestern [Sisters] (1970). Vol. 2 of her autobiography.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ "Hedda Zinner" Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine. Künstlerkolonie Berlin. Künstlerkolonie Berlin, n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2013.
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External links
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- 1900s births
- 1994 deaths
- Journalists from Lviv
- Communist Party of Germany politicians
- Socialist Unity Party of Germany politicians
- Refugees from Nazi Germany in the Soviet Union
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit
- Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany
- Jewish German writers
- 20th-century German women writers
- 20th-century German writers
- Jews from Austria-Hungary
- Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe)
- German writer stubs