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Place of Birth: East Berlin
About Barbara Honigmann
- Barbara Honigmann (born 12 February 1949 in East Berlin) is a German author, artist and theater director. Barbara Honigmann is the daughter of a Jewish emigrant parents, who returned to East Berlin in 1947 after a period of exile in Great Britain.
- Her mother, Litzi Friedman (1910-1991) also known as Alice nee Kohlmann, and her father, Georg Honigmann, Ph.D (1903-1984).
- Her mother was in born Vienna, Austria and worked in film dubbing in her later years .
- Her father was born in Wiesbaden, Germany and was the chief editor of the "Berliner Zeitung" while also being a filmmaker.
- They couple divorced in 1954. From 1967 to 1972, she studied theater at Humboldt University in East Berlin.
- In the following years she worked as a dramatist and director in Brandenburg and Berlin.
- She has been a freelance writer since 1975.
- In 1981, she married her husband Peter Obermann who later took her surname; the two went on to have two children together, Johannes (b.
- 1976) and Ruben (b.1983).
- In 1984, she and Peter left the GDR to move to a German Jewish community in Strasbourg, France.
- Honigmann began to finally to explore her German roots in the end of the 20th century According to Emily Jeremiah from The Institute of Modern Languages Research, "Honigmann’s texts are also paradigmatic of post-exile writings by German-Jewish authors.
- In addition, they offer examples of literary reactions to the demise of the GDR by its decamped intellectuals, and represent the articulations of a new generation of women writers"
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