Lieselotte Biermann

Background

Lieselotte Biermann was born on March 22, 1950, in Stolzenau, Lower Saxony, Germany in the family of Theodor and Anneliese (Zinke) Biermann.

Education

Biermann studied German Literature and Language, English and Political Sciences at the Technical University of Hanover and at the University of Padua. She wrote her master's thesis on the subject of "unpaid housework" with the title "The Heart of the Family". She then received a doctoral scholarship and worked on a dissertation on witches, which she did not graduate.

Career

Lieselotte worked in various professions, including at the post office, as a publishing lecturer and prostitute, first in Hanover, then in Berlin. Since 1976 she works as a writer, journalist and translator in Berlin. So she submitted re-translations of some of Agatha Christie's novels, such as Death on the Nile and The Owl's House.

Achievements

• She became known mainly through her own crime novels Potsdamer Ableben, Violetta, Herzrasen.

Works

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  • Potsdamer Ableben (Rotbuch Krimi) 1989
  • Violetta (Rotbuch Krimi) (German Edition) 1990
  • Vier, Funf, Sechs: Roman (German Edition) 1997
  • Herta und Doris. 2002
  • Potsdamer Platz 1992

Membership

• German Translators and Writers Union

• IG Medien

Personality

In the 1980s Lieselotte appeared mainly as a frontwoman of the whoring movement within the women's movement, was co-organizer of the "first Berlin whores ball" in 1988, and active in the association Hydra e. V.

Connections

On October 15, 1993 Bierman married publicist and critic Tho¬mas Woertche.

Father:

Theodor Biermann

Mother:

Anneliese (Zinke) Biermann

husband:

Thomas Woertche