Margret Boveri

Margret Antonie Boveri (Würzburg, 14 August 1900 – Berlin, 6 July 1975) was one of the best-known German journalists and writers of the post-World War II period. She was a recipient of the German Critics' Prize and the Bundesverdienstkreuz.

Early life In 1900, Margret Boveri was born in Würzburg, Germany, the daughter of German biologist Theodor Boveri and American biologist Marcella O'Grady Boveri. Boveri later credited her success to Scheffer's mentorship, "It was due to Scheffer that I started to become a name."

After the Frankfurter Zeitung was banned by the German government in 1943, Boveri returned to Berlin, where her apartment was destroyed in an air strike. She then took up work as a report writer in the German embassy in Madrid before returning to Berlin in 1944 to work as a freelance writer with the Nazi Party weekly Das Reich. Among her friends and acquaintances were Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Theodor Heuss, Ernst von Weizsäcker, Freya von Moltke, Ernst Jünger, Carl Schmitt, Armin Mohler, Gottfried Benn und Uwe Johnson.

She died in Berlin in 1975.

Personal life Margret cherished her identity as an unconventional woman. She took flying lessons. She also owned a personal car in which she travelled through parts of Europe that people, not only women, rarely had the opportunity to visit. Just before joining Berliner Tageblatt, in 1933, she drove through Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. These travels constituted her first publications.

Works Das Weltgeschehen am Mittelmeer, Zurich 1936 Vom Minarett zum Bohrturm. Eine politische Biographie Vorderasiens, Zurich and Leipzig 1939 Ein Auto, Wüsten, blaue Perlen. Bericht über eine Reise durch Vorderasien, Leipzig 1939 modern edition: Wüsten, Minarette und Moscheen. Im Auto durch den alten Orient. Berlin, wjs 2005, Amerika-Fibel für erwachsene Deutsche, Berlin 1946 (modern edition: Berlin (Landt) 2006, 16 Fenster und 8 Türen, Berlin 1953 Der Verrat im XX. Jahrhundert, 4 Volumes, Hamburg 1956–1960 Wir lügen alle. Eine Hauptstadtzeitung unter Hitler, Olten and Freiburg im Breisgau 1965 Tage des Überlebens. Berlin 1945, Munich 1968. Modern edition: Berlin, wjs 2004, "Erinnerte Mutmaßungen", in: Neue Deutsche Hefte 16, 205–208, 1969 Die Deutschen und der Status Quo, Munich 1974 Verzweigungen. Eine Autobiographie, published by Uwe Johnson, Munich 1977modern edition: Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp 1996,