Background
Margarete Neumann was born in Pyritz, Pomerania, German Empire.
Margarete Neumann was born in Pyritz, Pomerania, German Empire.
She studied at the social educational seminar in Königsberg and worked until 1945 as a welfare worker in Heilsberg.
After being expelled from Poland to Germany in 1945, she was a farmer in Mecklenburg and a welder in Halle (Saale). Since 1952 she lived as a free lance writer in Hohen Neuendorf then in Neubrandenburg after 1961. After the Wende, Neumann lived in Sousse, Tunisia from 1991 to 2001.
She succumbed to cancer on 4 March 2002 in Rostock.
The grave of the author is found in Mallin. 1957 Heinrich Mann Prize.
She was allowed as a partisanship writer and advocate of socialist realism in East Germany.