Gerlind Reinshagen

Gerlind Reinshagen (born May 4, 1926) is a German writer.

The daughter of Ekkehard and Friedel Technau, she was born in Konigsberg and studied pharmacy and art. She wrote children's books, novels, poetry and radio plays before writing her first play for the theatre Doppelkopf in 1967. Her plays Himmel und Erde (Heaven and Earth) (1974) and Sonntagskinder (Sunday's children) (1976) were also produced as films. Most of her plays were directed by the influential director Claus Peymann.

She received a Schiller Memorial Prize in 1974, the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 1977, the Andreas Gryphius Prize in 1982, the Roswitha Prize in 1988, the Ludwig Mülheims Preis in 1993 and the Niedersächsischer Staatspreis in 1999.