Gabriele Wohmann

Gabriele Wohmann (née Guyot; May 21, 1932 – June 22, 2015) was a German novelist, and short story writer.

Life

Wohmann was born in Darmstadt. She attended the Nordseepädagogium on the island Langeoog as a boarding school. She studied at Frankfurt am Main from 1951 to 1953. She then worked as a teacher at her former school to Langeoog, at a community college, and a business school. In 1953, she married Reiner Wohmann. She has lived as a freelance writer in Darmstadt since 1956. Wohmann died on June 23, 2015, after struggling for an extensive period of time with serious illness in the place of her birth, Darmstadt.

Career

Wohmann authored short stories, novels, poems, radio plays, television plays, and essays. She attended meetings of the Group 47. She was a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts since 1975, and the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt since 1980. She was a member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1960 to 1988.

Works

• Hol mich einfach ab, Piper, München 2003
• Schön und gut, Piper, München 2002
• Abschied von der Schwester, Pendo, Zürich/München 2001
• Das Hallenbad, Piper, München 2000
• Das Handicap, Piper, München 1996
• Aber das war noch nicht das Schlimmste, Piper, München 1995
• Bitte nicht sterben, Piper, München 1993
• Der Flötenton, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1987
• Das Glücksspiel, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1981
• Ach wie gut daß niemand weiß, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1980
• Frühherbst in Badenweiler, Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1978
• Ausflug mit der Mutter, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1976
• Schönes Gehege, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1975
• Paulinchen war allein zu Haus, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1974
• Ernste Absicht, Luchterhand Verlag, Berlin/Neuwied 1970
• Abschied für länger, Walter, Olten/Freiburg im Breisgau 1965
• Jetzt und Nie, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied 1958

Works in English

• Amos Leslie Willson, ed. (1996). "An Irresistible Man". Contemporary German fiction. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-0740-5.
• The cherry tree, Translator Jeanne Willson, Dimension Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-911173-05-5
• Siblings, John Harding, Fricke Pub., 1982, ISBN 978-3-88184-052-1
• Selected Translations of Gabriele Wohmann, Steven Walter Eau Claire, University of Iowa, 1984

External links

• "So spannend ist das Leben nicht", Berliner Zeitung, Benoît Pivert, 18 May 2002
• Günter Häntzschel, Gabriele Wohmann, Beck, 1982, ISBN 978-3-406-08691-5