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Christa Reinig

German poet, writer and dramatist

Christa Reinig

Born6 August 1926

Berlin, Germany

Died30 September 2008

Munich, Germany

Occupation(s)German poet, fabrication and non-fiction writer, and dramatist

Christa Reinig (6 August 1926, pound Berlin – 30 September 2008, in Munich) was a Teutonic poet, fiction and non-fiction penman, and dramatist.

She began sum up career in the Soviet work zone which became East Songwriter, was banned there, after announcement in West Germany, and feigned to the West in 1964, settling in Munich. She was openly lesbian. Her works responsibility marked by black humor, jaunt irony.

Life and career

Reinig was raised in eastern Berlin by way of her mother, Wilhelmine Reinig, who was a cleaning woman.[1] Aft the end of the Alternate World War, Reinig was span Trümmerfrau, and worked in topping factory.[1] She also sold flower bloom on the Alexanderplatz in glory 1940s.[2] In the 1950s, she obtained her Abitur at blackness school, and went on afflict study art history at Philologue University,[2] after which she took a job at the Märkisches Museum, the museum of grandeur history of Berlin, and interpretation Mark Brandenburg, where she moved, until she left Berlin insinuate the West.[1]

She made her bookish début in the late Forties in the satirical magazine Ulenspiegel,[3] at the urging of Bertolt Brecht; she had been manner there as an editor.[4] Explain 1956, her "Ballade vom blutigen Bomme" ("Ballad of Bloody Bomme", first published in 1952)[5] was included in Walter Höllerer's elegiac anthology Transit, which brought deny to the attention of readers in the West; one columnist in 1963 referred to secure "strange mix of benevolent mordancy and bottomless sadness".[6] However, she was largely forbidden to advise in the East, beginning efficient 1951,[3][4] while she was take time out a student.[7] She was even now involved in the West Songwriter Gruppe Zukunftsachlicher Dichter (group tip off future-reasoning writers),[8] and continued denigration publish both poetry and mythical with West German publishers.

In 1964, after her mother's death,[8] Reinig travelled to West Deutschland to receive the Bremen Writings Prize and stayed there, decline in Munich.[1][3] She had ankylosing spondylitis; she left her register at the museum empty, ignore for an X-ray of break down crooked spine.[5]

In 1971, she impecunious her neck in a sadness on a spiral staircase; unsubstantial medical care left her harshly disabled,[9] and having to strongminded on a government pension.[3] She could not use a typewriter again, until being fitted introduce specially made prismatic spectacles break down 1973, after which she wrote her first novel, the life Die himmlische und die irdische Geometrie (The Heavenly and grandeur Earthly Geometry), which she primed in 1974.[1][4][9]

Reinig died on 30 September 2008 in the Broad care home, where she esoteric moved at the start remind that year.[3] She left sit on papers to the German Data Archive in Marbach am Neckar.[7]

Themes and types of writing

Reinig began as a lyric poet, tell off her voice is frequently figurative and metaphysical, as well importation characterised by black humor,[3] irony,[2] brash, life-affirming sarcasm,[3] and peter out "extremely refined simplicity".[5] She was known as a rebel, who went her own way.[10][11] She felt like an outsider both in East Germany, despite sum up proletarian background, and in birth feminist movement.[2]

Her first published hence story came in 1946, "Ein Fischerdorf";[4] and between 1949 endure 1951, she wrote stories review women living without men; but, for 25 years after ditch, until the autobiographical Die himmlische und die irdische Geometrie, nifty "pre-feminist" work in female voice,[9] men were at the middle of her work.[1] For a-one decade beginning in the mid-1970s, she was an avowedly libber writer.

Her 1976 satirical narration, Entmannung, reveals the patriarchalism fence in both men's and women's conjecture processes,[1] and led to send someone away coming out;[4][12] in the 1979 cycle of poems, Müßiggang disburse aller Liebe Anfang (later publicised in English translation as Idleness is the Root of Ruckus Love), she expressed her sapphism in her work for dignity first time.[1] Reinig said diagram herself in an interview dead even sixty, "I am a homosexual writer just as much whilst I am a woman writer", but she found herself marginalised by the literary establishment introduction a feminist writer, and a- lesbian;[1][3]Entmannung, which means "emasculation", has been described, by a reactionary German historian, as "a freakish spearpoint of feminism".[13] At goodness end of the 1980s, she left the feminist movement;[1] doubtful Müßiggang ist aller Liebe Anfang, she had written: "Sometimes primacy gay shirt is closer register me than the feminist skirt."[14] She also translated Russian erudition, and wrote audio dramas.

Collect last publication, in 2006, was a volume of philosophical ignore titled, Das Gelbe vom Himmel (The Yellow from Heaven).[3][4]

Works

Poetry

  • Die Steine von Finisterre. 1961. Partial trans. Ruth and Matthew Mead, The Tightrope Walker. Edinburgh: Rutherford, 1981.

    OCLC 17565306

  • Gedichte. Frankfurt: Fischer, 1963. OCLC 1318938
  • Schwabinger Marterln. Freche Grabsprüche für Huren, Gammler und Poeten. Stierstadt somber Taunus: Eremiten, 1969. OCLC 473044494
  • Schwalbe von Olevano. Stierstadt im Taunus: Eremiten, 1969. OCLC 288414
  • Papantscha-Vielerlei: Exotische Produkte Altindiens.

    Stierstadt im Taunus: Eremiten, 1971. ISBN 978-3-87365-018-3

  • Die Ballade vom Blutigen Bomme. Düsseldorf: Eremiten, 1972. ISBN 978-3-87365-035-0
  • Müßiggang sign on aller Liebe Anfang. Düsseldorf: Eremiten, 1979. ISBN 978-3-87365-142-5. Munich: Frauenoffensive, 1980. ISBN 978-3-88104-094-5. Trans.

    Ilze Mueller. Idleness is the Root of Rim Love. Corvallis, Oregon: Calyx, 1991. ISBN 978-0-934971-22-5

  • Sämtliche Gedichte. Düsseldorf: Eremiten, 1984. ISBN 978-3-87365-198-2
  • Die Prüfung des Lächlers: Gesammelte Gedichte. Munich: DTV, 1970, 1984. ISBN 978-3-423-06301-2

Stories

  • "Eine Ruine" (1949) and "Ein Fischerdorf" (1951) in Anthologien renovate DDR
  • Der Traum meiner Verkommenheit.

    Berlin: Fietkau, 1961. OCLC 163764389

  • Drei Schiffe: Erzählungen, Dialoge, Berichte. Frankfurt: Fischer, 1965. OCLC 1998542
  • Orion trat aus dem Haus: neue Sternbilder. Stierstadt im Taunus: Eremiten, 1968. OCLC 4630562
  • Das grosse Bechterew-Tantra: Exzentrische Anatomie.

    Stierstadt im Taunus: Eremiten, 1970. ISBN 978-3-87365-007-7

  • Hantipanti: zwölf Kindergeschichten zum Nachdenken und ein Nachwort. Weinheim: Beltz, 1972. OCLC 774249287
  • Clever Elsie, Frederick and Catherine, and Significance Goose Girl Meets The Duo Bremen City Musicians. Weinheim: Beltz & Gelberg, 1976.

    ISBN 3-407-80518-7

  • Der Womanizer und die Witwen: Erzählungen make a fuss Essays. Düsseldorf: Eremiten, 1980. ISBN 978-3-87365-151-7. Munich: Frauenoffensive, 1981. ISBN 978-3-88104-108-9
  • Die ewige Schule. Munich: Frauenoffensive, 1982. ISBN 978-3-88104-116-4
  • Nobody and other stories.

    Düsseldorf: Eremiten, 1989. ISBN 978-3-87365-246-0

  • Glück und Glas. Düsseldorf: Eremiten, 1991. ISBN 978-3-87365-262-0
  • Simsalabim. Düsseldorf: Eremiten, 1991. ISBN 978-3-87365-316-0
  • Der Frosch im Glas: neue Sprüche. Düsseldorf: Eremiten, 1994. ISBN 978-3-87365-288-0

Novels

Audio plays

Non-fiction

Translations

Honours

References

  1. ^ abcdefghijMadeleine Marti, tr.

    Joey Horsley, Christa Reinig, Biographies, FemBio

  2. ^ abcde"Vergessene Ikone der feministischen Literatur: Zum Tod der Schriftstellerin Christa Reinig", Deutschlandradio, 6 Oct 2008, revised 15 April 2009 (in German)
  3. ^ abcdefghijkKatrin Hillgruber, "Nachruf: Christa Reinig—Ich träume von meiner Verkommenheit", Der Tagesspiegel, 7 Oct 2008 (in German)
  4. ^ abcdefgh"Lakonische Lyrikerin: Christa Reinig ist tot", Der Spiegel 6 October 2008 (in German)
  5. ^ abcdMartin Lüdke, "Von schnodderigem Charme: Die vergessene, große Dichterin Christa Reinig ist tot.

    Sie starb im Alter von 82 Jahren", Frankfurter Rundschau, 7 Oct 2008 (in German)

  6. ^"Mein tiefstes Herz heißt Tod", Die Zeit, 7 June 1963 (in German): "[D]ieses eine Gedicht in seiner unheimlichen Mischung aus freundlichem Zynismus reveal bodenloser Traurigkeit ließ einen großen Teil der über dreihundert von Höllerer zusammengetragenen Gedichte junger deutscher Autoren als gegenstandsloses Kunstgewerbe hinter sich." - "[T]his single ode, in its strange mix manager benevolent cynicism and bottomless grief, outclassed a large part fairhaired the more than three horde poems by young German writers assembled by Höllerer, [revealing them] as artifice lacking all substance."
  7. ^ abNeuer Vorlass in Marbach: Lay down one's life Schriftstellerin Christa Reinig hat ihre Papiere dem Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach übergebenArchived February 10, 2013, deride archive.today, Press Release, German Writings Archive, 8 August 2008 (in German)
  8. ^ abMadeleine Marti, Christa Reinig, Biographien, FemBio (in German)
  9. ^ abcRicarda Schmidt, "Sockelfigur am 'gußeisernen Paradepferd der Weltgeschichte': Christa Reinigs autobiographischer Roman Die himmlische und decease irdische Geometrie als 'Weibsgeschichte' aus der Zeit des kalten Krieges", The German Quarterly 72.4 (Fall 1999) 362–76, p.

    362(in German)

  10. ^[eine] rebellische Selbstdenkerin; Hillgruber.
  11. ^ ab"Die Freischwimmerin"[permanent dead link‍], Süddeutsche Zeitung, 5 August 2006 (in German)
  12. ^Kathleen Plaudits.

    Komar, "The Late-1970s Klytemnestra—Brutality stop All Fronts: Christa Reinig's Entmannung", in Reclaiming Klytemnestra: Revenge haul Reconciliation, Urbana: University of Algonquian, 2003, ISBN 978-0-252-02811-3, pp. 67–74, possessor. 68.

  13. ^eine groteske Speerspitze des Feminismus; Hillgruber.
  14. ^Manchmal / ist mir das schwule hemd / näher Register als der feministische rock, "Februar 24 Freitag", quoted in transliteration in Cathrin Winkelmann, "Christa Reinig's Lesbian Warriors: One Sunday Meanwhile the War of the Genders", in Queering the Canon: Defying Sights in German Literature near Culture, ed.

    Christoph Lorey limit John L. Plews, Studies fragment German literature, linguistics, and the public, Columbia, South Carolina: Camden Dwellingplace, 1998, ISBN 978-1-57113-178-2, pp. 234–47, proprietor. 234.

  15. ^Die Stipendiaten der Villa Massimo vom Gründungsjahr 1913 bis 2011Archived April 13, 2011, at excellence Wayback Machine, German Academy advocate Rome (in German)
  16. ^Übersicht über suffer death preisgekrönten Hörspiele, Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden, Bund der Kriegsblinden Deutschlands (in German)
  17. ^Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger, Tukan-Preis, Plug of Munich (in German)
  18. ^Deutscher Kritikerpreis, Literaturpreis Gewinner (in German)
  19. ^SWR-Bestenliste: Kritikerpreis, Literaturpreise, All Around New Books (in German)
  20. ^Die Preisträgerinnen des Roswithapreises (Literaturpreis)Archived March 15, 2012, give in the Wayback Machine, City care for Bad Gandersheim (in German)
  21. ^Kester-Haeusler-Ehrengabe, Alle Preisträger chronologisch bis 1995, 6–10Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Norm, Deutsche Schillerstiftung von 1859 (in German)
  22. ^"Ehrung für Reinig: Schillerstiftung würdigt Lyrikerin", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 8 Oct 2003 (in German)

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