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Biography
Annemarie Bostroem (24 May 1922 – 9 September 2015) was a German poet, playwright, and lyricist. She lived most recently in the Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood of Berlin.
Career and life
Annemarie Bostroem was born to a family of doctors in Leipzig. Having attended schools in Munich and Konigsberg, she studied during theater studies and German studies in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna during World War II. From 1944 to her death in 2015 she lived in Berlin. From 1946 to 1954, was Associate Bostroem of construction-stage sales, where they wrote poetry and plays. This was a special reputation they acquired as Nachdichterin (adaptators of works into several languages on the basis of interlinear versions in 95 anthologies and Single, about 100,000 lines of verse).
Her first poetry book was Terzinen des Herzens (1947), but was rejected ideologically in the Soviet occupation zone of East Germany, and was censored in 1975. Nevertheless, the book was successful in the GDR with approximately 100,000 copies sold.
Bostroem was married to Friedrich Eisenlohr, another journalist, dramaturge, writer and publisher, from 1889 to 1954. She died in Berlin on 9 September 2015.
Awards
- Lyrikpreis Tägliche Rundschau (1946)
- Ehrengabe der Deutsche Schillerstiftung, Weimar