Libuše Moníková

Libuse Monikova ( born August 30, 1945 in Prague, † January 12, 1998 in Berlin) was a Czech, German -speaking writer.

Life

Libuse Monikova grew up in Prague. From 1963 to 1968 she studied at the Charles University in English and German. In 1970 she attained a doctorate with Edward Goldstücker on the Coriolan compared with Brecht and Shakespeare. On September 28, 1970 married Libuse Monikova and the German student Michael Herzog - she had a time, a visit visa for the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1971 she finally moved to her husband to Germany. The move was done for political reasons. In Germany Monikova worked as a lecturer at the University of Kassel and in 1977 at the University of Bremen. From 1978 to 1981 she worked as a trainee and teacher. Since 1981 she has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin. Libuse Monikova died after a head surgery. Her grave is in the Old St. Matthew's Cemetery in Berlin -Schöneberg - a few steps away from the graves of the brothers Grimm, and women's rights activist Minna Cauer.

Work

Libuse Monikova began to write in German language only during their stay in Germany. Your inter alia influenced by Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges and Arno Schmidt, often fantastic and mythical elements inclusive works are marked by the memory of the years in Prague, from the experience of the suppression of the Prague Spring and exile, from the Monikova even after the turn in Eastern Europe was no longer able to return to their homeland. For the author, the German language as a foreign language into an artistic, and aesthetic potential. In terms of her work Damage she said:

Memberships

• From 1991 to 1996 member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany, exited the Monikova in protest against the union with the East German PEN Centre.
• Since 1993, a full member of the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt.

Awards

Works

Novels

• An injury. Red Book, Berlin 1981.
• Pavane for a Dead Infanta. Red Book, Berlin 1983.
• The facade. Hanser, Munich 1987 ISBN 3-446-14884-1
• Castle, Aleph, wish cake. Hanser, Munich 1990.
• Drift. Hanser, Munich 1992. (See Ludwig Wittgenstein: Literary Reception )
• Prague window. Hanser, Munich 1994.
• Transfigured Night. Hanser, Munich, Vienna 1996.
• The wobble. Fragment. With an afterword by Michael Krüger. Hanser, Munich, Vienna, 2000 -. Teilw. Preprint: Jakub Brandl. In: Accents ( magazine ) In 1997, H. 6, pp. 512-536

Plays

• Tetom and tuba. Frankfurt 1987
• Among cannibals. Dramatic menu in four courses. Publisher of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1990 ISBN 978-3-88661-104-1

Other Publications

• Among educators. In: Lettre International, LI 15, Winter 1991, pp. 74-76
• Plums. From border issues and the landscape of childhood. In: Lettre International, LI 22, Autumn 1993, pp. 14-16