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.