Anna Seghers

Netty Reiling, who signed as Anna Seghers, was born in 1900 in Mainz, the only daughter of a Jewish art dealer. A doctor of art history in 1924, she published her first book in 1928, which won her the Kleist Prize, and joined the Communist Party the same year. Briefly arrested in 1933, she went into exile in Paris, then left Marseille in 1941 for Mexico. A novel published in 1942 and the film made from it made her famous throughout the world. Returning to Berlin in 1947, she presided from 1952 to 1978 over the East German writers' union and died in East Berlin in 1983.

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