Elfriede Brüning [SEP] place of death
Elfriede Brüning
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. 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,
Trade Union Federation, until the 1980s, when she was in her seventies. After reunification she continued to write about social injustices, including those of the reunification.
Further reading.
- "Brüning, Elfriede". In: Inge Diersen, "et al". "Lexikon sozialistischer Schriftsteller deutscher Literatur". Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1964. . pp. 128–29
- Eleonore Sent (Ed.) Elfriede Brüning. "Ich mußte einfach schreiben, unbedingt. Briefwechsel mit Zeitgenossen 1930–2007". Essen: