Leonie Ossowski

Leonie Ossowski
Born Jolanthe von Brandenstein
(1925-08-15) August 15, 1925
Röhrsdorf, Lower Silesia
Nationality Germany
Genre short story, novel, children's literature, screenplay

Leonie Ossowski is the pen name of Jolanthe von Brandenstein (born August 15, 1925), an award-winning German writer. She also writes under the name Jo Tiedemann.[1]

The daughter of Lothar von Brandenstein, she was born in Röhrsdorf (now Osowa Sień) in Lower Silesia. At the end of World War II, she fled to Thuringia and then to Upper Swabia. She worked at various jobs, including sales clerk, factory worker and photo lab assistant. She also wrote short stories and sold them to magazines. Ossowski wrote two scripts for the film company DEFA: Zwei Mütter ("Two mothers") and Stern ohne Himmel ("Stars without Sky").[2][1] She has lived in Berlin since 1980.[3]

Her 1977 novel Die große Flatter ("The big flutter") was also made into a film.[2]

She was awarded the Hermann Kesten Medal in 2006.[4] In 2014, she received the Andreas Gryphius Prize.[5] She has also received the Adolf-Grimme-Preis and the Schillerpreis der Stadt Mannheim.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Leonie Ossowski" (in German). Munzinger.
  2. 1 2 Sandford, John (2013). Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture. p. 461. ISBN 1136816038.
  3. 1 2 "Über Leonie Ossowski" (in German). Piper.
  4. ↑ "Kesten-Medaille für Leonie Ossowski" (in German). Deutsche Welle. October 2, 2006.
  5. ↑ "Andreas-Gryphius-Preis" (in German). Die Künstlergilde.
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