Hedda Zinner

Hedda Zinner, or Hedda Erpenbeck-Zinner (20 May 1904 – 1 July 1994), was a German political writer, actress, comedian, journalist and radio director.

Biography Hedda Zinner was born in Lviv (then known as Lemberg) on 20 May 1904 . She attended the Acting Academy there from 1923 to 1925. Zinner began working as an actress, but her interest in the workers' movement led her to move to Berlin.

She married Fritz Erpenbeck there in 1927 and, in 1929, joined the Communist Party of Germany . She became a journalist for left-wing journals In 1980, Zinner was awarded the Order of Karl Marx.

Zinner also wrote under the pseudonym Elisabeth Frank . Her granddaughter is the writer Jenny Erpenbeck.

Works Nur eine Frau [Only a Woman] (1954). A novel about the life of Louise Otto-Peters. Ahnen und Erben [Ancestors and Inheritors] (1968). Vol. 1 of her autobiography. Die Schwestern [Sisters] (1970). Vol. 2 of her autobiography.