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⚫ '''Anja Lundholm''' (born as '''Helga Erdtmann''', 28 April 1918, ] – 4 August 2007, ]), popularly known by her ] ''Ann Berkeley'' and ''Alf Lindström'', was a German novelist and ].<ref name=dn/>


==Biography== ==Biography==
Lundholm was the daughter of Erich Erdtmann, a German pharmacist from Krefeld and a member of the ], and Elisabeth Blumenthal, who came from a wealthy Jewish family of bankers in ].<ref name=dn/> In the years 1936–1939 she studied in ]. Lundholm was the daughter of Erich Erdtmann, a German pharmacist from Krefeld and a member of the ], and Elisabeth Blumenthal, who came from a wealthy Jewish family of bankers in ].<ref name=dn/> In the years 1936–1939 she studied in ].<ref name=dn/>


In 1941, she fled to Italy with the help of forged papers and established relations with members of the resistance movement in ].<ref name=dn/> Arrested, in March 1944, she was sent to the ]. She managed to escape from the death march and ended up in the British army in ] with the help of the ].<ref name=dn/> After the war, she worked as a translator and journalist for the British press.<ref name=dn>{{cite web|url=https://www.dnb.de/EN/Ueber-uns/DEA/Nachrichten/_content/lundholm.html|title=Chronicler of Her Century – 90th Birthday of Anja Lundholm|date=Deutsch Nationalbibliotek|access-date=11 December 2024|date=21 June 2019}}</ref> In 1941, she fled to Italy with the help of forged papers and established relations with members of the resistance movement in ].<ref name=dn/> Arrested, in March 1944, she was sent to the ]. She managed to escape from the death march and ended up in the British army in ] with the help of the ].<ref name=dn/> After the war, she worked as a translator and journalist for the British press.<ref name=dn>{{cite web|url=https://www.dnb.de/EN/Ueber-uns/DEA/Nachrichten/_content/lundholm.html|title=Chronicler of Her Century – 90th Birthday of Anja Lundholm|publisher=Deutsch Nationalbibliotek|access-date=11 December 2024|date=21 June 2019}}</ref>


Lundholm authored several books, including the memoirs ''Das Höllentor'' ("The Gates of Hell", 1988) that narrates her imprisonment in Ravensbrück concentration camp from spring 1944 until escape in early May 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://histmag.org/Anja-Lundholm-Wrota-piekiel.-Ravensbruck-recenzja-9097|title=Anja Lundholm – „Wrota piekieł. Ravensbrück” – recenzja i ocena|author=Daria Czarnecka|date=21 February 2014|access-date=11 December 2024|language=pl}}</ref> She won many international awards and distinctions, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974. Lundholm authored several books, including the memoirs ''Das Höllentor'' ("The Gates of Hell", 1988) that narrates her imprisonment in Ravensbrück concentration camp from spring 1944 until escape in early May 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://histmag.org/Anja-Lundholm-Wrota-piekiel.-Ravensbruck-recenzja-9097|title=Anja Lundholm – „Wrota piekieł. Ravensbrück” – recenzja i ocena|author=Daria Czarnecka|date=21 February 2014|access-date=11 December 2024|language=pl}}</ref>


==Awards and honors== ==Awards and honors==
* 1970: Cultural Prize of the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany * 1970: Kulturpreis of the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany
* 1986: Promotional Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt * 1986: Förderpreis of the ]
* 1991: Special Prize for the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize of the City of Osnabrück * 1991: Special Prize for the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize<ref>{{cite web|url=https://friedensstadt.osnabrueck.de/en/what-we-do/erich-maria-remarque-peace-prize/award-winner/|title=Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize|website=Stadt Osnabrück|access-date=11 December 2024}}</ref>
* 1993: Johanna Kirchner Medaille<ref>{{cite web|url=https://frankfurt.de/service-und-rathaus/verwaltung/preise-und-ehrungen/johanna-kirchner-medaille|title=Johanna Kirchner Medal {{!}} City of Frankfurt am main|access-date=11 December 2024|language=de|website=frankfurt.de}}</ref>
* 1993: Johanna Kirchner Medal of the City of Frankfurt am Main
* 1997: Hans Sahl Preis for ''Das Höllentor''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.literaturpreisgewinner.de/belletristik/hans-sahl-preis|title=Hans-Sahl-Preis|website=Literaturpreis Gewinner|language=de|access-date=11 December 2024}}</ref>
* 1997: Hans Sahl Prize
* 1998: BDS Literature Prize * 1998: BDS Literature Prize
* 1998: Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt am Main * 1998: ]
* 1998: Wilhelm-Leuschner Medal of the State of Hesse * 1998: Wilhelm-Leuschner Medal
* 2003: Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.krefeld.de/de/kulturbuero/niederrheinischer-literaturpreis-der-stadt-krefeld/|title=Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis der Stadt Krefeld|website=krefeld.de|access-date=11 December 2024|language=de}}</ref>
* 2003: Lower Rhine Literature Prize of the City of Krefeld


==Publications== ==Publications==

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German writer
Anja Lundholm
BornHelga Erdtmann
(1918-04-28)28 April 1918
Düsseldorf , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Died4 August 2007(2007-08-04) (aged 89)
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
Occupationnovelist
NationalityGerman
GenreProse
Notable works
  • Jene Tage in Rom (1982)
  • Das Höllentor (1988)

Anja Lundholm (born as Helga Erdtmann, 28 April 1918, Düsseldorf – 4 August 2007, Frankfurt), popularly known by her pen names Ann Berkeley and Alf Lindström, was a German novelist and holocaust survivor.

Biography

Lundholm was the daughter of Erich Erdtmann, a German pharmacist from Krefeld and a member of the Schutzstaffel, and Elisabeth Blumenthal, who came from a wealthy Jewish family of bankers in Darmstadt. In the years 1936–1939 she studied in Berlin.

In 1941, she fled to Italy with the help of forged papers and established relations with members of the resistance movement in Rome. Arrested, in March 1944, she was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She managed to escape from the death march and ended up in the British army in Lüneburg with the help of the Red Cross. After the war, she worked as a translator and journalist for the British press.

Lundholm authored several books, including the memoirs Das Höllentor ("The Gates of Hell", 1988) that narrates her imprisonment in Ravensbrück concentration camp from spring 1944 until escape in early May 1945.

Awards and honors

  • 1970: Kulturpreis of the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1986: Förderpreis of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
  • 1991: Special Prize for the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize
  • 1993: Johanna Kirchner Medaille
  • 1997: Hans Sahl Preis for Das Höllentor
  • 1998: BDS Literature Prize
  • 1998: Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
  • 1998: Wilhelm-Leuschner Medal
  • 2003: Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis

Publications

Novels

Autobiographical novels

  • Halb und halb ("Half and Half", 1966)
  • Morgengrauen ("Dawn", 1970)
  • Der Grüne ("The Green", 1972)
  • Jene Tage in Rom ("Those Days in Rome", 1982)
  • Geordnete Verhältnisse ("Orderly Conditions", 1983)
  • Die äußerste Grenze ("The Outermost Limit", 1988)
  • Das Höllentor ("The Gates of Hell", 1988)
  • Im Netz ("Online", 1991)

Solo novels

  • Ich liebe mich, liebst du mich auch? ("I Love Myself, Do You Love Me Too?", 1971) as Ann Berkeley.
  • Zerreißprobe ("Test of Endurance", 1974)
  • Nesthocker ("Nest Stool", 1977)
  • Mit Ausblick zum See ("With a View of the Lake", 1979)
  • Narziß postlagernd ("Narcissus Post-Bearing", 1985)

Translations

as Alf Lindström

  • Peter Baker, Das große Spiel (trans. The Great Game) (Zürich: 1970)
  • Peter Baker, Privatklinik Valetudo (trans. Private Clinic Valetudo) (Zürich: 1971)
  • Richard Beilby, Keinen Orden für Aphrodite (trans. No Order for Aphrodite) (Zürich: 1970)
  • Gordon Thomas, Die Feuerwolke (trans. The Fire Cloud) (Zürich: 1970)

as herself

  • Mala Rubinstein, Schön und charmant mit Mala Rubinstein (trans. Beautiful and Charming with Mala Rubinstein) (Zürich: 1975)

References

  1. ^ "Chronicler of Her Century – 90th Birthday of Anja Lundholm". Deutsch Nationalbibliotek. 21 June 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  2. Daria Czarnecka (21 February 2014). "Anja Lundholm – „Wrota piekieł. Ravensbrück" – recenzja i ocena" (in Polish). Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  3. "Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize". Stadt Osnabrück. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  4. "Johanna Kirchner Medal | City of Frankfurt am main". frankfurt.de (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  5. "Hans-Sahl-Preis". Literaturpreis Gewinner (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  6. "Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis der Stadt Krefeld". krefeld.de (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2024.

Bibliography

  • Magdalene Heuser: Holocaust und Gedächtnis: Autobiographien, Tagebücher und autobiographische Berichte von verfolgten Frauen. In: Ortrun Niethammer (Hrsg.): Frauen und Nationalsozialismus. Osnabrück 1996, S. 83–99.
  • Ursula Atkinson: Befreiung aus den Fesseln der Vergangenheit. Darmstadt 2000.
  • Irma Hildebrandt: Odyssee Rom – Ravensbrück – Brüssel – Frankfurt. Anja Lundholm Schauspielerin und Schriftstellerin. In: ders.: Tun wir den nächsten Schritt – 18 Frankfurter Frauenporträts. München 2000, S. 175–192.
  • Raimund Hoghe: Mehr als ein Leben. Die Schriftstellerin Anja Lundholm und die Geschichte einer Familie in Deutschland. In: Ders.: Wenn keiner singt, ist es still. Porträts, Rezensionen und andere Texte. Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit 2019, S. 138–145.
  • Kay Weniger: ‘Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben …’. Lexikon der aus Deutschland und Österreich emigrierten Filmschaffenden 1933 bis 1945. Eine Gesamtübersicht. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8, S. 156 f.

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