Grete Weil

Grete Weil (18 July 1906 – 14 May 1999) was a German writer.

Biography She was born Margarete Elisabeth Dispeker, the daughter of a prominent lawyer in Munich. She studied German literature in Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, and Paris. In 1932, she began writing her dissertation, and also completed her first story, "Erlebnis einer Reise" (Experience of a trip).

In 1932, she married Edgar Weil, a playwright at the Munich Kammerspiele. After Jockisch's death, in 1970, Weil increasingly turned to her writing. In 1974, she moved to Grünwald near Munich.

Weil is one of the major proponents of Holocaust literature. Her books have been translated into all the major European languages. Weil was a member of the PEN Centre Germany.

Awards Among her awards are the Wilhelmine-Lübke-Preis (1980), the Tukan Prize from the city of Munich (1983), the Geschwister Scholl-Preis (1988), the Carl-Zuckmayer Medal of Rhineland-Palatinate (1995) and the Bavarian Order of Merit (1996).

She died in Grünwald in 1999 at the age of 92.

Works Ans Ende der Welt, Berlin 1949 Boulevard Solitude, Mainz 1951 Tramhalte Beethovenstraat, Wiesbaden 1963 Happy, sagte der Onkel, Wiesbaden 1968 Meine Schwester Antigone, Zürich [u. a.] 1980 Generationen, Zürich [u. a.] 1983 Der Brautpreis, Zürich [u. a.] 1988 Spätfolgen, Zürich [u. a.] 1992 Leb ich denn, wenn andere leben, Zürich [u. a.] 1998 Erlebnis einer Reise, Zürich 1999