Grete Weil (F / Germany, 1906-1999), novelist
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Grete Weil (1906-1999) was a German Jewish novelist. Grete Weil was born in Munich [Germany] in 1906, the daughter of a Jewish lawyer. When the Nazis came to power, she emigrated to Holland with her husband, the playwright and director Erich Weil. In 1941, Erich was arrested; he later died in a concentration camp. Grete went into hiding, and it was then that she began to write, first theater pieces, then fiction. After the war, she returned to Germany, and eventually settled near her native Munich, where she lived from 1947 until her death in 1999.