Fanny Morweiser (11 March 1940 – 13 August 2014) was a German writer.

Curriculum Vitae

Morweiser was born in

Ludwigshafen Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (; meaning " Ludwig's Port upon Rhine"), is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it form ...

. She studied the subjects sculpturing, painting and drawing at the Freie Akademie in

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

. Later she lived in

Mosbach Mosbach (; South Franconian: ''Mossbach'') is a town in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the seat of the Neckar-Odenwald district and has a population of approximately 25,000 distributed in six boroughs: Mosbach Town, Lohrbach, N ...

, a pictures town close to the

Odenwald The Odenwald () is a low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Location The Odenwald is located between the Upper Rhine Plain with the Bergstraße and the ''Hessisches Ried'' (the northeastern section ...

and the

Neckar The Neckar () is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse. The Neckar is a major right tributary of the Rhine. Rising in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis near Schwenn ...

Valley in south-western Germany. In 1971 Morweiser's first book ’’Lalu lalula, arme kleine Ophelia – Eine unheimliche Liebesgeschichte’’ was published by the

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in Zürich (Switzerland). Further collections of short stories and novels followed and finally she had written thirteen volumes. In the 1980th two of her stories were used as basis for two feature films, which were shown in German TV. In 2002 she was honoured with the office of the ‘’Turmschreiber’’ (Writer of the Tower) in

Deidesheim Deidesheim ( pfl, Daisem) is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with some 3,700 inhabitants. The town lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration and since 1973 it has been the seat of the ''V ...

. Some of Morweiser’s short stories had been translated into English and were published in different American Journals. For example: The Taxi Dancer, in: The Antigonish Review 119 (1999), p. 29-32, or: Fervent Red, in: New Orleans Review 27/1 (2001), p, 138-144.

References

* Manfred Lauffs: ''Artikel: Fanny Morweiser'' in: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartsliteratur (German ast update made in 2001. {{DEFAULTSORT:Morweiser, Fanny German women short story writers German short story writers 1940 births 2014 deaths German women novelists 20th-century German novelists 20th-century German women writers 20th-century German short story writers