Birgit Vanderbeke

Birgit Vanderbeke ( born August 8, 1956 at the Brandenburg Dahme ) is a German writer.

Life

Vanderbeke grew after moving her family in the western part of Germany in 1961 in Frankfurt am Main, where she later law, Germanic and Romance languages ​​studied. Since 1993 she works as a freelance writer in her new adopted home in southern France.

Work

Their most famous work is the short story The clambake, wait in the mother, son and daughter at dinner on the father. This is late, and so the eighteen- year-old daughter can be the father of a dominant embossed family life and their petty -bourgeois conditions to reminisce. The more the arrival of the father delayed, the more sinister and threatening is the mood.

In most of her books, there is not a gloomy atmosphere; the petty-bourgeois everyday world is described with plenty of irony, humor and lightness in tone. The autobiographical text Money or Your Life from 2003 is a light-footed walk through the living conditions and feelings of the post-war decades.

In I want my murder makes Vanderbeke with literary Zitiertechniken fun of the nearby days ago operating pressure to deliver a detective novel as a potential bestseller. In a Strangers on a train - staging, there are many playful allusions and unexpected spins, which should make it amusing.

• The clambake [ narrative ]. Red Book, Berlin, 1990, ISBN 3-596-13783-7 ( 1993 Red Book Paperback, Volume 77, ISBN 3-88022-097-2 / as Fischer- TB Volume 13 783, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596 - 13783-7 ).
• Missing parts [ narrative ]. Red Book, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-596-13784-5.
• Good enough [ narrative ]. Red Book, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-596-13785-3 ( 1996 Red Book Paperback, Volume 1030, ISBN 3- 88022-398 -X / as Fischer Paperback Volume 13 785 Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596 - 13785-3 ).
• I want my murder, Rowohlt, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-596-15925-3.
• Peaceful times [ narrative ]. Red Book, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-596-13786-1 (as Fischer Paperback Volume 13 786 Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-13786-1 ).
• Alberta receives a lover [ story ], Festival, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-596-14198-2 ( as an audio book: 2 MC at Hörverlag Munich 1998, ISBN 3-89584-451-9 ).
• I spy with my little eye Festival, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8286-0100-6 (as Fischer Paperback Volume 15 001, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-15001-9 ).
• Witches speeches ( with Gisela von Wysocki and Marlene Streeruwitz ). In: Göttingen Sudelblätter, Wallenstein, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89244-372-6.
• Ariel or storming the white wash (Editorial and epilogue Ralph shock). In: speech to the graduates of the 2000 vintage, Gollenstein, Blieskastel 2001, ISBN 3-933389-44-5.
• Suspended [ narrative ]. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-087020-4 (as Fischer -Taschenbuch, Volume 15 622 Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3- 596-15622 -X).
• Instructions for the French, Piper 7515, Munich / Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-492-27515- X.
• Money or Life S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-087021-2.
• Tastes? Cooking without taboo. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-10-087025-4.
• Sweet sixteen S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-10-087026-3.
• The strange career of Ms. Choi S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-087086-5 (as Fischer Paperback Volume 17 460 Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 3-596-17460-0 ).
• This can be changed Piper, Munich / Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-0545-6-0.
• The woman with the dog Piper, Munich / Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-05511-6.
• The Summer of boars Piper, Munich / Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-05622-9.

Awards

Literature the work of Birgit Vanderbeke

• Richard Wagner ( ed.): " I ​​had a little power over it " [Materials on the work of Birgit Vanderbeke, original edition ], Fischer -Taschenbuch band 14 937 Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-14937-1.
• Gerhard C. Krischker, Ansgar Leonis (ed.): " Birgit Vanderbeke: The clambake " [Text and Commentary ]. In: Buchner school library of modernity. Buchner, Bamberg 2002, ISBN 3-7661-4360-3.
• Brigitte Noll: LiteraNova. Teaching models from paper originals: " Birgit Vanderbeke: The clambake ." Cornelsen, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-464-61638-3.
• Bertold Heizmann (eds.): Interpretation Guide German: " Birgit Vanderbeke: The clambake ." Stark, Freising 2010, ISBN 978-3-8944-9691-3