Rosemarie Schuder
Rosemarie Schuder was a German writer.Life
Rosemarie Schuder came from a middle-class family in Jena. She attended a girls' school and took the Abitur in 1947. Subsequently she worked as a freelance journalist for the East German newspaper Tägliche Rundschau and Neue Zeit. She interned for hands on experience at the Jena Glassworks in 1952. From 1957 to 1959, she underwent a study abroad in Italy. Since 1958, she has been married to writer Rudolf Hirsch and lives as a freelance writer in Berlin.
Rosemarie Schuder was the writer of numerous historical novels in which she dealt with primarily themes from German history like the Münster Rebellion of 1534 or the fate of important people like Paracelsus, Johannes Kepler and Michelangelo.
Rosemarie Schuder belonged to the P.E.N.-Zentrum of East Germany since 1978 being a member of the PEN-Zentrums Deutschland as well as the Deutsche Schillergesellschaft. Since 1951 she belonged to the Ost-CDU ending with her withdrawal from the party in March 1990. She received the 1958 Heinrich Mann Prize, the National Prize of East Germany in each 1969, 1978 and 1988, the 1976 Lion Feuchtwanger Prize as well as the 1988 Goethe Prize of the East German Capital.
She died in May 2018 in Berlin.Works
- Glas, Leipzig 1952
- Die Strumpfwirker, Berlin 1953
- Ich hab's gewagt, Berlin 1954
- Der Ketzer von Naumburg, Berlin 1955
- Meine Sichel ist scharf, Berlin 1955
- Paracelsus, Berlin 1955
- Der Sohn der Hexe, Berlin 1957
- In der Mühle des Teufels, Berlin 1959
- Der Tag von Rocca di Campo, Berlin 1959
- Die Störche von Langenbach, Berlin 1961
- Der Gefesselte, Berlin 1962
- Die zerschlagene Madonna, Berlin 1964
- Tartuffe 63 oder Die Ehe der Michaela Schlieker, Berlin 1965
- Die Erleuchteten oder Das Bild des armen Lazarus zu Münster in Westfalen, von wenig Furchtsamen auch der Terror der Liebe genannt, Berlin 1968
- Paracelsus und der Garten der Lüste, Berlin 1972
- Agrippa und das Schiff der Zufriedenen, Berlin 1977
- Serveto vor Pilatus, Berlin 1982
- Der gelbe Fleck, Berlin 1987
- Die Bilder der Königin, Berlin 1990
- Welt und Traum des Hieronymus Bosch, Berlin 1991
- Botticelli, Berlin 1996
- Nummer 58866 – Judenkönig, Berlin 1996
- Hochverrat oder Seltsame Wege zu Ferdinand Freiligrath, Zürich 2001
- Deutsches Stiefmutterland, Teetz 2003
- Der "Fremdling aus dem Osten" / Eduard Lasker – Jude, Liberaler, Gegenspieler Bismarcks, Berlin: Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg 2008
Publishing work
- Otto Nuschke, Berlin 1953
- Hieronymus Bosch: Hieronymus Bosch, Berlin 1975
Literature
- Edda Eska: Merkmale und Strukturen des historischen Romans, Berlin 1981
- Werner Schuder : Hirsch geb. Schuder, Rosemarie. In: Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender 1984. 59. Jahrgang. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1984
