Ilse Gräfin von Bredow explained

Ilse Gräfin von Bredow (born July 5, 1922, in Teichenau, Silesia – April 20, 2014 in Hamburg) was a German writer.[1]

Biography

She was the third and youngest child of Sigismund Count von Bredow (1890–1970) and his wife Ursula, née von Lieres and Wilkau (1881–1966). Her older siblings were Wilkin Count von Bredow (1918–1988) and Josepha Countess von Bredow, later married Freifrau von Zedlitz and Leipe (1919–2011). The family lived in the forester's lodge in Lochow, today part of the municipality of Stechow-Ferchesar, in Havelland.

As a teenager Ilse Gräfin von Bredow attended a boarding school. During the World War II she was in the Reich Labor Service. Shortly before the end of the war, her family fled from Brandenburg to Lower Saxony. She lived in Hamburg from the early 1950s. Countess von Bredow worked for newspapers and magazines as a freelancer and wrote reportages and short stories. Many of her works reflect her origins.

Her first book Kartoffeln mit Stippe was published by Scherz Verlag in 1979, went through several editions and was filmed as a three-part series by ZDF in 1990.

Works

Fiction

Non-fiction

Film adaptations

Literature

External links

References

  1. https://books.google.de/books?id=_DS3oAEACAAJ&dq=K%C3%BCrschners+Deutscher+Literatur-Kalender+2014&hl=de&sa=X&ei=z9MFVKfjKrKM4gSRuoGgCQ Ilse von Bredow.
  2. besteht aus den Teilen „Die Erbschaft", „Liebe hat viele Gesichter" und „Es ist nicht alles Gold was glänzt"