Trude Richter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Trude Richter

German author

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1899

Place of Birth: Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 04-Jan-1989

Profession: writer, author, resistance fighter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Trude Richter (born Erna Barnick in Magdeburg 19 November 1899; died Leipzig 4 January 1989) was a writer, literary scholar and teacher who became a political activist.
She spent many years detained in labour camps in the Soviet Union, but she remained a committed Communist throughout her life.She received the name by which she is known, Trude Richter, neither by birth or marriage.
The name Trude Richter was conferred on her, originally as a cover name, in January 1931 when she joined the Association of Proletarian-Revolutionary Authors ("Bund Proletarisch-Revolutionärer Schriftsteller"), an organisation with close connections to the German Communist Party, of which Richter was also a member.