Irmtraud Morgner

IRMTRAUD Morgner ( born August 22, 1933 as IRMTRAUD Elfriede Morgner in Chemnitz, † May 6, 1990 in Berlin) was a German writer.

Life

IRMTRAUD Morgner was the daughter of a locomotive driver. After she finished high school in 1952 at the present Agricola -Gymnasium in Chemnitz, she studied from 1952 to 1956 and German Literature at the University of Leipzig. From 1956 to 1958 she worked on the editorial board of the journal New German literature. Since 1958, she lived as a freelance writer in Berlin.

After a few narrative works in the style of socialist realism IRMTRAUD Morgner succeeded in 1968 with her ​​novel wedding in Constantine Opel breakthrough by the reading public of the GDR. The first time produced virtuoso mix of fantasy and realistic everyday description from a feminist perspective, was her trademark, and with the unusually broad Roman Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatriz and the continuation Amanda she achieved in 1974 both the readers of the GDR as well as those of Federal Republic of Germany with great success. In the 1980s, she had the opportunity to several trips to Western countries, including the United States and Switzerland, where she held the 1987/88 lectures at the University of Zurich. The planned third volume of her " Salman trilogy " she could not finish because of the 1987 erupted cancer; the fragments were published posthumously as The Heroic Testament.

IRMTRAUD Morgner was a board member of the Writers Union of the GDR.

From 1972 to 1977 she was married in second marriage with the writer Paul Wiens, who as IM reports delivered over them.

Awards

Works

  • The signal is set to ride, Berlin 1959
  • A house on the outskirts of the city, Berlin 1962
  • Wedding in Constantinople Opel, Berlin [u a ] 1968
  • Juggler legend, Berlin 1970
  • The wondrous world of travel Gustav driver, Berlin [u a ] 1972, new edition criminal Verlag, Berlin 2006
  • Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatriz according to testimonies of their game wife Laura, Berlin [u a ] 1974
  • Gender exchange, Darmstadt [u a ] 1980 ( together with Sarah Kirsch and Christa Wolf)
  • Amanda. A witch novel, Berlin [u a ] 1983
  • The witch in the cottage, talking in Solothurn. With a contribution by Erica Pedretti. Hoarfrost Verlag, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-907764-03- X.
  • The beauty and the beast. A love story, Leipzig 1991
  • Rumba and a Fall, Hamburg [ a ] 1992
  • The heroic Testament, Munich 1998
  • Narratives, Criminal Verlag, Berlin 2006
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