Anneliese Probst

Anneliese Probst (married name in 2nd marriage Anneliese Seidler) (23 March 1926 – 10 October 2011) was a German writer.
Life
Born in Düsseldorf, Probst had lived in Halle (Saale) since 1933. She attended a Gymnasium, where she passed the Abitur in 1944. In the same year, she married the lawyer Matthias Probst. Three children were born. From 1946, Anneliese Probst wrote literary works. In 1952/53 she worked as a dramaturge for the DEFA children's film studio. After the death of her first husband, she married the pastor Christof Seidler in 1971. She became a member of the CDU and was city councillor. In 1978 the couple moved to Beesenstedt, where Seidler worked as a pastor until 1994. After the death of her second husband in 1997, Anneliese Probst lived in a retirement home in near Halle (Saale).
Probst was the author of children's books and youth books and also of novels for adults. From the 1960s, her works appeared mainly in the confessional publishing houses "Evangelische Verlagsanstalt" and "". Her works made 1.7 million copies.
Probst was a member of the Deutscher Schriftstellerverband. In 1990, she was one of the co-founders of the "Förderkreis der Schriftsteller in Sachsen-Anhalt". She drew the ideas for her books from her everyday experience, but also from overheard sentences or notes from the newspaper, and from confronting and dealing with problems in the course of her city council duties. She named her basic motive: "Let us not love with words, but with deeds and with truth".
In 1986, she was awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle District.
Work
Der unsterbliche Kaschtschej, Halle (Saale) 1947
Der Zauberfisch, Halle (Saale) 1947
Die steinerne Blume, Halle (Saale) 1948
Das Zauberkorn. Der "singende Vogel". Die Wunderblume, Halle (S.) 1948
Die Gazelle, Halle (S.) 1949
Das Wunderpferdchen und andere russische Volksmärchen, Halle (Saale) 1950
Schnurz, Berlin 1953 (together with Edith Müller-Beeck)
Sagen und Märchen aus dem Harz, Berlin 1954
Der steinerne Mühlmann, Berlin 1954 (with Kurt Bortfeldt)
Schulgeschichten, Berlin 1955
Sommertage, Berlin 1955
Gespenstergeschichten, Berlin 1956
Der steinerne Mühlmann, Berlin 1956
Begegnung am Meer, Weimar 1957
Ferien mit Susanne, Rodenkirchen/Köln 1957
Sagen und Märchen aus Thüringen, Berlin 1957
Die Geigerin, Berlin 1958
Einsteigen bitte!, Berlin 1959
Geschichten aus der 3a, Berlin 1960
Ich … und Du, Berlin 1960
Sabine und Martin, Berlin 1960
Nein, diese Hanne!, Berlin 1961
Wir brauchen euch beide, Berlin 1962
Altweibersommer, Berlin 1964
Die fröhliche Insel, Berlin 1964
Menschen in der Heiligen Nacht, Berlin 1965
Reifeprüfung, Berlin 1965
Schatten, Berlin 1965
Die verborgene Schuld, Berlin 1966
Die letzten großen Ferien, Berlin 1967
Die Pause, Berlin 1969
Das Wiedersehen und andere Erzählungen über die Kunst, in Gelassenheit alt zu werden, Berlin 1970
Menschen wie ich und du, Berlin 1971
Die schöne Kuline, Berlin 1971
Träumen mit der Feder, Berlin 1971
Das Fräulein vom Hochhaus, Berlin 1972
Ein Zeltschein für Dierhagen, Berlin 1972
Die fünf aus Nr. 19, Berlin 1974
Vergiß die kleinen Schritte nicht, Berlin 1974
Die Christvesper oder Das Weihnachtsläuten von St. Martin, Berlin 1975
Das weiße Porzellanpferd, Berlin 1976
Die unentwegte Großmutter, Berlin 1978
Karlchen oder Die Geschichte von der Eisernen Hochzeit, Berlin 1979
Nenni kündigt nicht, Berlin 1980
Die Legende vom Engel Ambrosio, Berlin 1981
Unterwegs nach Gutwill, Berlin 1982
Rund um den Taubenturm, Berlin 1984
Stationen, Berlin 1984
Hinkefüßchen, Niederwiesa 1986
Orchesterprobe, Berlin 1986
Lieber Gott, hörst du mich?, Constance 1987
Annettes Stern, Berlin 1989
Traumtänzerin, Berlin 1991
Mein Wintertagebuch, Gößnitz 1995
Anneliese Probst, Halle 1996
Von Whisky, Wodka und anderen Lieblingen, Querfurt 1996
Das lange Gespräch, Querfurt 1999
Auf der Suche nach dem Kind, Leipzig 2000
Steh-auf-Lieschen, Querfurt 2000
Die steinerne Blume, Leipzig 2001
Katzensommer, Querfurt 2003
Tobias Kullerauge und andere Gute-Nacht-Geschichten, Halle 2005
Awards
Handel Prize
References
Further reading
External links
Anneliese Probst auf den Seiten des Förderkreises der Schriftsteller in Sachsen-Anhalt
1926 births
2011 deaths
Writers from Düsseldorf
20th-century German writers
21st-century German writers
German children's writers
German women children's writers
Christian Democratic Union (East Germany) politicians
Handel Prize winners
20th-century German women
21st-century German women