Marliese Echner-Klingmann (26 January 1937 – 16 November 2020) was a

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poet and playwright.

Biography

Born as Marie-Elisabeth Echner in

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, Echner-Klingmann grew up in Eschelbronn. She worked as an office administration clerk until her marriage in 1959. She had two children: Her son Michael, born in 1961 and her daughter Christiane, born in 1964. She began writing at the middle of the 1960s. In 1988, Echner-Klingmann founded the acting-group "Sellemols" in Eschelbronn. She died at 16 November 2020 and is buried at the Cemetery of Eschelbronn.

Awards and honours

In 2008, she was awarded the :de:Heimatmedaille des Landes Baden-Württemberg:Heimatmedaille des Landes Baden-Württemberg.

Bibliography

Fiction

* with Ilse Rohnacher: ''Stoppelfelder streichle. Mundartgedichte''. Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau, 1984 * with Ilse Rohnacher: ''Du un ich. Mundartgedichte''. Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt, Heidelberg, 1988 * with Ilse Rohnacher: ''Blädderraschle Mundartgedichte''. C. Winter, Heidelberg, 1996 * ''Dorfgeschichten in Mundart und Schriftdeutsch''. Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe, 2004 * ''Kraichgauer Wortschatz. Wörter und Wendungen aus dem Östlichen Kraichgau. Hrsg. vom Heimatverein Kraichgau Eppingen'', Druckerei Odenwälder, Buchen, 2001

Plays

* ''Sellemols. Vom Leineweber- zum Schreinerdorf'' (1989) * Veronika Seyfert (1993) * ''Aus der Lisbeth ihrm Tagebuch. E Dorf em Kraichgau vun 1939 bis 1945'' (1996) * ''S Leewe geht weiter - E Dorf em Kraichgau vun 1945 bis 1954'' (2002) * ''Zuzenhausen, ein Dorf an der Elsenz'' (2004) * ''Dorfleewe, wud Groußeltern noch Kinner ware'' (2008)

References

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