Irmtraud morgner biography sample
Irmtraud morgner biography sample
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Irmtraud Morgner
German novelist
Irmtraud Morgner (22 August 1933 – 6 May 1990) was a German writer, best known for works of magical realism concerned predominantly with the role of gender in East German society.
Life
Irmtraud Morgner was born in 1933 in Chemnitz, the daughter of a railroad engineer. She took her Abitur in 1952, before studying Germanistik (German studies) and Literary studies at Leipzig until 1956.
She worked for the magazine neue deutsche literatur (New German Literature, a journal noted for a degree of confrontation with East German cultural policy) until 1958, after which she lived as a freelance author.
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Morgner's first marriage was to Joachim Schreck, later an editor at the publishers Aufbau-Verlag. She gave birth to a son in 1967. Morgner and Schreck were divorced in 1970. She was married again in 1972, to Paul Wiens, a fellow poet and author.
Wiens, like many thousands in East German, was an 'unofficial employee' of the Stasi a