Grete Weiskopf (1905-1966) was a children’s book author. She married the Czechoslovakian author Franz Carl Weiskopf (1900-1955), a member of the KPD and the League of proletarian-revolutionary writers (BPRS), and moved with him to Berlin. In 1931, her first children's book, Ede and Unku, appeared in the Malik publishing house under the pseudonym Alex Wedding, which was destroyed during the burning of books in 1933 in Germany. She is considered a pioneer of socialist children's and youth literature.
Discipline:
Literature
Grete Weiskopf
Discipline:
Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1943, 1944
Studios
Barnard
Grete Weiskopf worked in the Barnard studio.
Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…