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Elfriede Brüning (8 November 1910 – 5 August 2014) was a Communist German journalist and novelist. She also used the pseudonym Elke Klent. ==Life and career== Elfriede Brüning was born in Berlin, the daughter of a cabinetmaker and a seamstress who were involved in the workers' movement.〔Carsten Wurm, ("Brüning, Elfriede" ), ''Wer war wer in der DDR?'', online edition, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur 〕〔Deutsche Presse-Agentur, ("DDR- und Nachwende-Autorin: Schriftstellerin Elfriede Brüning ist tot" ), ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', 5 August 2014 .〕 Forced to leave school after the tenth year to help support the family, she worked in offices; beginning in 1929, she was a secretary at a Berlin film company. After forging a letter of recommendation,〔Oliver Das Gupta, ("'Wir dachten, man müsste das Volk zum Glück zwingen'" ), Interview, ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', 8 November 2010 .〕 she began to publish articles in the ''Feuilleton'' sections of newspapers such as the ''Berliner Tageblatt'', the ''Berliner Börsen-Courier'' and the ''Vossische Zeitung''. After attending a Marxist Workers' School,〔 she joined the Communist Party (KPD) in 1930 and thereafter wrote mainly for the Communist press.〔Sabine Kebir, ("Vom Alltag in der Etappe: Veteranin der Frauenemanzipation: Ein Nachruf auf die Schriftstellerin und Reporterin Elfriede Brüning" ), ''Junge Welt'', 8 August 2014 .〕 In 1932 she joined the Association of Proletarian-Revolutionary Authors; then the youngest in her branch, she was to be the last surviving member.〔Karlen Vesper, ("Und außerdem ist Sommer ... Zum Tod der Schriftstellerin Elfriede Brüning. Mehr als ein Jahrhundertleben - ein gelebtes Geschichtsbuch" ), ''Junges Deutschland'', 7 August 2014 .〕〔("Elfriede Brüning ist tot: Die Schriftstellerin und Antifaschistin wurde 103 Jahre alt" ), ''Neues Deutschland'', 5 August 2014 .〕 Her first novel, ''Handwerk hat goldenen Boden'', was a social criticism and was to be published in 1933 but was not because of the Nazi seizure of power; it appeared in 1970 under the title ''Kleine Leute''.〔 Brüning turned to lighter reading and in 1934 published ''Und außerdem ist Sommer'', which was a success.〔 During the early years of the Nazi régime, Brüning participated in the Communist resistance, writing for the exile newspaper ''Neue Deutsche Blätter'' under the pseudonym Elke Klent and making trips to Prague, where it was published, as a courier for the Association of Proletarian-Revolutionary Authors. The KPD's illegal central committee met in the flat at her parents' shop.〔〔 On 12 October 1935 she was arrested and imprisoned in the women's prison on Barnimstraße, but was released after her trial for treason in 1937, since the Gestapo was unable to prove she had engaged in illegal activities.〔〔 She was able to obtain permission to write in prison, so in 1936 she published another novel, ''Junges Herz muß wandern''.〔 In 1937 she married Joachim Barckhausen, a writer and editor;〔Sabine Kebir, ("Bloß nicht aufhören" ), Interview, ''Der Freitag'', 5 November 2009 .〕 their daughter Christiane Barckhausen, born in 1942, also became a writer.〔 Brüning worked as a script evaluator for a film company and with Barckhausen co-wrote the scenario for ''Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter'', which was filmed by DEFA after the war. She spent the last years of the war on her in-laws' estate in the Magdeburg Börde.〔 Brüning returned to Berlin in 1946, reactivated her KPD membership, and wrote for and edited news periodicals in what later became the German Democratic Republic. Her marriage ended in 1948.〔 From 1950 on, she was self-employed as a writer and lived in Berlin. After German reunification she became a member of The Left. She continued to give interviews into her old age.〔 She died in Berlin〔〔 and was buried in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery.〔(Nachrichten II ), RBB, 25 August 2014, retrieved 26 August 2014 〕 Her papers for the years 1930–2007 are in the Fritz Hüser Institute in Dortmund.〔("Literarische Nachlässe, Vor- und Teilnachlässe und Sammlungen" ), Fritz-Hüser-Institut für Literatur und Kultur der Arbeitswelt, City of Dortmund.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elfriede Brüning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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