Trude Richter

Trude Richter (born Erna Johanna Marie 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. Provided by Wikipedia