Elsemarie Maletzke
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Elsemarie Maletzke
Elsemarie Maletzke was born in 1947. In 1968, she became a member of the editorial staff at the satirical magazine Pardon. In 1974, she went to Ireland to teach German. Back in Germany, she was an editor at Titanic and Plasterstrand. In the early 1980s, she published travel guides and anthologies on Ireland and Dublin. Biographies on the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning followed. Elsemarie Maletzke lives and works as an author and freelance journalist in Frankfurt/Main.
Elsemarie Maletzke was born in 1947. In 1968, she became a member of the editorial staff at the satirical magazine Pardon. In 1974, she went to Ireland to teach German. Back in Germany, she was an editor at Titanic and Plasterstrand. In the early 1980s, she published travel guides and anthologies on Ireland and Dublin. Biographies on the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning followed. Elsemarie Maletzke lives and works as an author and freelance journalist in Frankfurt/Main.
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Ben Witter Preis 2023
Ben Witter Preis 2023
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Year of Publication: 2016
Elsemarie MaletzkeYear of Publication: 2016
Maud Gonne
She was one of the most flamboyant personalities of the Irish War of Independence: Maud Gonne, tall, glamorous and headstrong. She was born the daughter of an English officer in 1866 – and as much as she loved Ireland, she hated the British Empire. To the disenfranchised, she was the »woman of the fairies« who worked miracles; to her enemies, she was an »uncontrollable...