Margarete Neumann (19 February 1917 – 4 March 2002) was a German writer and lyrical poet.
Margarete Neumann was born in Pyritz, Pomerania, German Empire. She studied at the social educational seminar in Königsberg and worked until 1945 as a welfare worker in Heilsberg. After being expelled from Poland to Germany in 1945, she was a farmer in Mecklenburg and a welder in Halle (Saale). Since 1952 she lived as a free lance writer in Hohen Neuendorf then in Neubrandenburg after 1961. She was allowed as a partisanship writer and advocate of socialist realism in East Germany.
After the Wende, Neumann lived in Sousse, Tunisia from 1991 to 2001. She succumbed to cancer on 4 March 2002 in Rostock. The grave of the author is found in Mallin.
Der Weg über den Acker (The road across the field), Novel, 1955Lene Bastians Geschichte (Lene Bastian's History), Novellas, 1956Der lange Weg (The Long Way), Narrative, 1958Brot auf hölzerner Schale (Bread from the Wooden Bowl), Poems, 1959Elisabeth, Narrative, 1960Rumpelstilzchen, Radio play, 1960Das Aprikosenbäumchen (The Little Apricot Tree), Children's Book, 1960Der Wunderbaum (The Wonder Tree), Children's Book, 1960Der Spiegel (The Mirror), Narrative, 1962Der Totengräber (The Dead Graves), Novel, 1963... und sie liebten sich doch (.. and they loved themselves nevertheless), Novel, 1966Die Liebenden (The Beloved), Novel, 1970Der grüne Salon (The Green Salon), Novel, 1972Magda Adomeit, Novel, 1985Land der grüngoldenen Berge: Unterwegs in Mongolien, Novel, 1986Dies ist mein Leben ... (This is my Life ...), Narrative cycle, 1987Nach einem sehr langen Winter (After a very long Winter). Selected Stories 1956–1987, Aufbau Verlag 1989Der Geistkämpfer. 2 Novellen um Barlach (The Ghost Fighter. 2 Novellas about Barlach), Aufbau Verlag 1990Da Abend und Morgen einander berühren Die Webers und die Adomeits (The Webers and the Adomeits affect each other that evening and morning). Novel, Aufbau Verlag 19901957 Heinrich Mann Prize1962 Fritz Reuter Prize