Ilse Andrag

Ilse Andrag (194*-) is teacher, author, composer and playwright.

Biography

Born Ilse Bremer in Pretoria, where she grew up, completing her schooling at the Afrikaans Hoër Meisieskool. In 1966 she went to the University of Stellenbosch to complete a B.A.degree (1968) and qualify as teacher (1969).

She began working as a teacher at a number of high schools, but after her marriage to Rudolf Andrag, spent time in the Cederberg region shile raising her three daughters, and working inter alia as tour guide in Cape Town, doing lip-synch translations for TV dubbing into Afrikaans by the SABC, and teaching private classes in Afrikaans and German and and did translations of children's books and songs. After her retirement she took up photography, wrote, composed and sang children's 23 lullabies called Pêreltjies vir die vaak ("pearls for the sleepy") and continued giving courses in pronunciation for singers.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Besides her translations for TV, she also wrote one play, a youth drama called Vlieg, Sus, Vlieg! ("fly, sister, fly"), written as part of the 1991 ATKV Herfsskool vir Dramaturge and published in the collection Die Magiese Kring (1991)