Hannelore hahn biography

Interviewee: Hannelore Chemist, Enrolled hoot Ann Hannelore Hahn, makeover author Hannelore Hahn

Interviewer: Habitual Emma Harris

Interview Date: 1997 February 21

Interview Location: Newborn York City

BMC Role gift Dates: Scholar, 1945-1947, 1946 summer bradawl camp

Profession: Novelist, founder past it the Ecumenical Women's Handwriting Guild

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Writing the Autobiography

Everyone has his bell. This is to say, we all have our individual lives and those things which have happened to us. And even though we shape this material into a bell and put a clapper to it, it might not ring at all, or at best make only a dull sound.

Facts alone do not make a story. Plot is a device for the writers of fiction. But an autobiography which plots the course of one’s life must have a ring to it–a timbre, a cadence.

At the beginning, that special sound may just be heard inside your head and only for a moment. Something may occur to you, as in a dream, except you sense it was not a dream, but a visitation. Such moments are rare and fleeting. Generally, the geology of our lives is a layered mass–a labyrinthed mineshaft of compressed memory, charred meteors imbedded in brain cells. Still, in order to write recollectively, these blackened nodules must be visited. Then, when contact is made, they must be sensed beyond personal property and reset within a landscape whose topography may be traveled by all.

What has helped me was the image of the earth as seen from outer space by the astronauts. A new view of something very familiar, a distant perch. This gave perspective to the canvas.

What also helped was the continual buffing of the bel

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Biography

When Hannelore Hahn was five years old, she was walking with her mother on the tree-lined streets of the city of Dresden. They were headed towards the “Grosse Garten,” Dresden’s palatial public park, where they planned to feed the swans. Suddenly, they heard screechy sounds from across the street. A man, standing on top of a shiny black car, was shouting and gesticulating like a crazy person.

Two years later, at age seven, the author auditioned at the Ballet Corps of Dresden’s State Opera House where her mother sought the opinion of the Director of the State Opera Ballet Corps as to her daughter’s talent.

The audition consisted of spontaneous dancing to the ever changing rhythms played by the ballet company’s pianist. When it was over, the Director handed the mother a form to fill out, remarking that her daughter would certainly be the absolute youngest they had ever accepted. After briefly glancing over the completed form, the Director returned it to the mother with great apologies. The State Opera House could no longer accept Jews!

The “crazy man” they had seen two years earlier, when they were on the way to feed the swans, was now the Chancellor of Germany! And the simple one-page form seeking admission to trai