Lenka Reinerová

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Lenka Reinerová (2003)

Lenka Reinerová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈlɛŋka ˈrajnɛrovaː]) (17 May 1916 – 27 June 2008) was an author from the Czech Republic who wrote exclusively in German. She was born in Prague.

Life

Reinerová grew up in a German-speaking Jewish family, her mother a German-Bohemian from Saaz (

communist authorities and spent 15 months in prison; she recorded this experience in one of her novels, Alle Farben der Sonne und der Nacht. After her release she published sporadically. In 1968, she was the Editor in Chief of the English language publication 'Czechoslovak Life' published by the Orbis Publishing House in Prague. From the summer of 1968, and throughout the period following the Warsaw Pact invasion, Czechoslovak Life continued to support the Action Programme of the Communist Party. She remained as Editor in Chief until at least the end of 1969. Later she was not allowed to publish at all until the fall of communism. Her works are mostly published at Aufbau Verlagsgruppe, Berlin
.

On 25 January 2008, a speech Reinerová wrote but could not longer deliver personally due to ill health was read in German

Third Reich
.

Reinerová had been largely a recluse ever since a spell in hospital in 2007, with the cause of her death not immediately known. Reinerová, the oldest living German-language writer in Prague, died on 27 June 2008 in Prague, in her apartment, at 92.[1] Lucie Cernhousova, head of Literaturhaus, the Prague publisher of German-language writers, disclosed her death.

Awards

In 1999, she was awarded the Schiller Prize. In 2003, she won the prestigious Goethe Medal.

References

  1. ^ "Zemřela spisovatelka Lenka Reinerová". Lidové noviny (in Czech). 27 June 2008. Retrieved 28 March 2016.

External links

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