Grete Weil

Grete Weil was a German novelist, short story writer, and translator. She studied German literature and trained as a photographer. Married in 1932 to the playwright Edgar Weil, when the Nazis came to power she fled with him to Amsterdam. In 1941, Edgar Weil was arrested and died in a concentration camp. Grete Weil survived in hiding and in the postwar years returned to Germany. She was a member of the PEN center of the Federal Republic of Germany. Weil won the Wilhelmine-Lübke Prize in 1980 and the Geschwister-Scholl Prize in 1988.