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.
Grete Weiskopf
Disciplines:
Literature
Disciplines:
Literature
Residencies: 1943, 1944
Studios
Barnard
Grete Weiskopf worked in the Barnard studio.
Originally built near the Lower House (a building since demolished) at MacDowell's Union Street entrance, Barnard Studio was funded by Barnard College music students. It 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…