Maria Frisé

Maria Frisé (; 1 January 1926 – 31 July 2022) was a German journalist and author. Her journalistic work consisted primarily of features and reviews, covering the arts and fringe political issues. She was a member of the staff of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) from 1968 to 1991, working for the paper until her death. She was also the author of short stories, essays, poetry and autobiographical works about her childhood and family in Silesia.

Life Maria von Loesch, the second of her parents' three recorded children, was born in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) on 1 January 1926. Ernst Heinrich von Loesch (1885–1945), her father was a land owner; and she grew up in Schloss Lorzendorf, the crenelated manor house at the heart of the family estates surrounding Lorzendorf, in the flatlands of Lower Silesia. As they started the journey, Stahlberg was an army officer, but they soon became just two among hundreds of anonymous homeless refugees trying to get away from the fighting. They stopped off at Lüneburg Heath and briefly took refuge with von Manstein. They then detoured north, ending up in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein where the couple made their home for the next twelve years. After her mother had died Maria had also taken on guardianship responsibilities for her much younger sister Christine. who helped her break in to the world of culture. Leaving her first husband meant leaving her sons: she later told an interviewer that she had written to them "almost every day". She was operating in a milieu in which women were still rare. There were 152 contributing editors of whom 142 were men. writing articles until her death.

Awards 1991 from the . The prize was inaugurated in 1991, so Frisé was the first recipient. 1994 Andreas Gryphius Prize, Ehrengabe (Award of Honor) 1996 , (Silesia culture prize from Lower Saxony)

Works Frisé's works are held by the German National Library, including:

Hühnertag und andere Geschichten, Reinbek 1966 Erbarmen mit den Männern, Reinbek 1983 Montagsmänner und andere Frauengeschichten, Frankfurt 1986 Eine schlesische Kindheit, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1990, Allein – mit Kind, Munich, 1992 (with Jürgen Stahlberg) Wie du und ganz anders, Frankfurt 1994 Liebe, lebenslänglich, Frankfurt 1998 Meine schlesische Familie und ich: Erinnerungen, Berlin 2004 Familientag, Berlin 2005 Auskünfte über das Leben zu zweit. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, Einer lebt immer. Erzählungen. Literareon, Munich 2021,

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