Christine Br%C3%BCckner

Christine Brckner was born in Schmillinghausen near Arolsen in Hesse, Germany, the daughter of the pastor Carl Emde and his wife Clotilde. She lived there until 1934 when she moved to Kassel. She attended high school in Arolsen and Kassel, completing her Abitur in 1941. During the war years, she was drafted for service in the General Command in Kassel, and then as a bookkeeper in an aircraft factory in Halle. After the war, she received a diploma as librarian in Stuttgart. She studied economics, literature, art history and psychology in Marburg, where for two semesters she was director of the Mensa Academica. During that time, she wrote articles for the magazine Frauenwelt in Nuremberg. From 1948 to 1958, she was married to the industrial designer Werner Brckner . In 1960 she returned to Kassel, where, from 1967, she lived with her second husband and fellow writer Otto Heinrich Khner , with whom she collaborated on several works.

Then Brckner published a number of other novels, which focus mainly on issues of love, marriage and relationships from a womans perspective, and on the possibilities for female selfrealization. In 1975 appeared her very successful novel, Manure and Stock , followed by its sequels, Nowhere is Poenichen and The Quints , which formed the socalled Poenichen trilogy. At nearly 1000 pages, it tells in a clear style the life story of Maximiliane Quint, born in 1918, the granddaughter of an aristocratic landowner in Pomerania. The success, especially of the first two volumes, was due to the works engaging narrative of the history and achievements of the generation of women who had to prove themselves under the conditions of war, displacement and reconstruction. In 1977 and 1978 Manure and Stock and Nowhere is Poenichen were filmed as a miniseries for television. The main actors were Ulrike Bliefert, Arno Assmann and Edda Seippel. These contributed significantly to the popularity of the series

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