Marie Luise Kaschnitz

Marie Luise Kaschnitz was born in Karlsruhe on January 31, 1901, and grew up in Potsdam and Berlin. After training as a bookseller, she worked at O.C. Recht Verlag in Munich and in an antiquarian bookshop in Rome. After marrying the archaeologist Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg, she accompanied him on several of his research trips and lived in Rome, Marburg and Königsberg, among other places, and mainly in Frankfurt am Main after 1941. After the birth of her daughter in 1928, she began to write – novels, stories, essays and poems. Her first novel Liebe beginnt was published in 1933. From 1950 onwards, she also increasingly devoted herself to radio plays. She was awarded numerous prizes and was a member of the P.E.N. Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Academy for Language and Poetry and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, among others. Marie Luise Kaschnitz died on October 10, 1974 in Rome.