Background
Gisela Karau was born in Berlin 1932.
non-fiction writer screenwriter
Gisela Karau was born in Berlin 1932.
After finishing her examination in 1950 (A-level) she began a five year job training at the newspaper BZ am Abend. She worked as a reporter and a columnist for that newspaper until 1990 on a freelance basis. In the 1960s she began writing children"s literature.
Her first work was the novel (1972).
The book is about the destiny of Polish children in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Other popular children"s books in the German Democratic Republic written by Gisela Karau include (1979) about Wilhelm Pieck"s life and Loni (1982) about a girl in Berlin a few years after World World War World War II Further, she wrote screenplays to many children"s films of the DEFA. The motion picture Mein blauer Vogel fliegt was based on.
She also published books for adults like the novels Berliner Liebe (1984) and Familienkrach (1988) in the German Democratic Republic. After the German reunification she wrote some novels about the destiny of people in the German Democratic Republic, in the Wende and in the New states of Germany after 1990. She also published more children"s books like Bolle, der freundliche Hund (1994), Küsse auf Eis (1997) and Das kommt in der besten Familie vor (2003).
Gisela Karau married Günter Karau, with whom she had two children.
She died in 2010 in a Berlin hospital.