Elisabeth Langgsser

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German author and teacher. Langgasser is known for lyrical poetry and novels. On 1 January 1929 she gave birth to her daughter Cordelia as a single mother. In July 1935, she married the editor William Hoffman. During the Third Reich she was considered a half-Jew and therefore expelled from the Reichsschrifttumskammer (writer's union) in 1936. During the World War II she was forced to labor in a munitions factory. In 1942 there were the first signs of multiple sclerosis. In 1945, after the end of World War II she could complete the novel The indelible stamp. In the same year showed further signs of their multiple sclerosis disease. In 1946 she received the first news that her daughter survived the Holocaust. In March 1950, she was accepted to the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature. Her last novel Märkische Argonauts appeared only a few months after her death on 25 July 1950 in Karlsruhe. In the year of her death she was posthumously awarded Georg Büchner Prize. Elisabeth Langgässer Literature Prize is awarded every three years since 1988 by the City Alzey. Link to Wikipedia biography