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Annemarie Bostroem (24 May 1922 – 9 September 2015) was a German poet, playwright, and lyricist. She lived most recently in thePrenzlauer Berg neighborhood of Berlin.
Bostroem was born to a family of doctors inLeipzig. Having attended schools inMunich andKönigsberg, she studied theatre studies andGerman studies in Leipzig, Berlin andVienna duringWorld War II. From 1944 to her death in 2015, she lived in Berlin. From 1946 to 1954, Bostroem was an Associate of construction-stage sales, where she wrote poetry and plays. This was a special reputation she acquired as a Nachdichterin (adaptators of works into several languages on the basis of interlinear versions in 95 anthologies and Single, about 100,000 lines of verse).[1]
Her first poetry book wasTerzinen des Herzens (1947), but was rejected ideologically in the Soviet occupation zone ofEast Germany, and was censored in 1975. Nevertheless, the book was successful in the GDR with approximately 100,000 copies sold.[2]
Bostroem was married toFriedrich Eisenlohr (1889–1954), another journalist,dramaturge, writer and publisher.[3] She died in Berlin on 9 September 2015.[4]
