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Christa Wolf
German novelist and essayist (1929–2011)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 18 March 1929
- Died
- 1 December 2011
- Place of birth
- Gorzów Wielkopolski
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Sex or gender
- female
- Given name
- Christa
- Family name
- Wolf
- Spouse
- Gerhard Wolf
- Child
- Annette Simon
- Genre
- prose
- Field of work
- essay, German-language literature
- Occupation
- writer, screenwriter, politician, novelist, essayist, journalist, literary critic, science fiction writer, critic, author, librettist, editing staff
- Citizenship
- Germany, German Democratic Republic
- Native language
- German
- Awards
- Georg Büchner Prize, Geschwister-Scholl-Preis, National Prize of East Germany, Schiller Memorial Prize, Heinrich Mann Prize, Samuel-Bogumil-Linde prize, Nelly Sachs Prize, honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense, Franz Nabl Prize, Elisabeth Langgässer Literature Award, Austrian State Prize for European Literature, Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen
- archives at
- Archive of the Academy of Arts
- birth name
- Christa Ihlenfeld
- described by source
- Lexikon deutschsprachiger Epik und Dramatik von Autorinnen 1730–1900, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Women Writers of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon (1 ed.)
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Leipzig University
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Academy of Arts of the GDR, German Academy for Language and Literature, Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Academy of Arts, Berlin
- member of political party
- Socialist Unity Party of Germany
- name in native language
- Christa Wolf
- place of burial
- Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
- relative
- Jan Faktor
- residence
- Kleinmachnow
- start of work period
- 1961
- topic's main category
- Category:Christa Wolf
- writing language
- German
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