Hedda Zinner

Hedda Zinner
Zinner in Berlin, 1956
Born
Hedda Zinner

(1905-05-20)20 May 1905
Lviv (then Lemberg), Austria-Hungary
Died1 July 1994(1994-07-01) (aged 90)
Berlin, Germany
SpouseFritz Erpenbeck
Writing career
Pen nameElisabeth Frank, Hannchen Lobesam, Hedda
LanguageGerman

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[1]. She attended the Acting Academy there from 1923 to 1925. Zinner began working as an actress,[2] 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[3]. She became a journalist for left-wing journals[3]. When Hitler came to power, she and her husband moved to Vienna and then Prague, where she founded the cabaret Studio 34 in 1934[1]. In 1935 they emigrated to Moscow[1]. After the Second World War, they returned to Germany and settled in East Berlin.[4] In 1980, Zinner was awarded the Order of Karl Marx.[5]

Zinner also wrote under the pseudonym Elisabeth Frank[3]. 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.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Hedda Zinner". Wien Geschichte Wiki.
  2. ↑ "Zinner, Hedda | Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur". www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de (in German). Retrieved 2026-08-14.
  3. 1 2 3 "Hedda Zinner, 1905–1994" (in German). Retrieved 2026-08-14.
  4. ↑ "Hedda Zinner" Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine. Künstlerkolonie Berlin. Künstlerkolonie Berlin, n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2013.
  5. ↑ "Biographische Datenbanken : ZINNER, HEDDA". Bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
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