Ursula Krechel
Ursula Krechel ( born December 4, 1947 in Trier ) is a German writer and author. Krechel moves in all literary genres. The poetry, initially influenced more by the women's movement and new subjectivity, forms the core of her work. In addition, she has published prose, plays and radio plays. As an author she writes scholarly essays, books reviewed and interpreted poems.
Life
Krechel was the daughter of psychologist James Krechel and his 1971 deceased wife Thea (born Dany ). After primary school in Trier - Holy Cross from 1954 to 1958, she visited the modern language school for girls (now Humboldt -Gymnasium ) in Trier, where she graduated in 1966 with a graduation examination. Starting in the winter semester 1966/67, she studied German literature, theater and art history at the University of Cologne. During her studies, graduating in 1972 with a doctorate and a dissertation on Herbert Ihering, she wrote contributions for the West German Radio and the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. From 1969 to 1972 she was a dramaturg at the Municipal Theater Dortmund and directed theater projects with young offenders.
From 1972, she lived as a freelance writer in the Westend district of Frankfurt, where she sang shared a friendship with Helga M. Novak and Klaus Roehler. In 1974, she attracted attention with her first stage play " Erika ". The playing in the milieu of the Rhenish petty bourgeoisie describes the action - eventually aborted - attempt to break out of the young protagonist of one of her world experienced as a burden, a constricting marriage and professional hopelessness. Was published in 1976 by Luchterhand their study self-awareness and self-determination. Report from the new women's movement, in which they defined the political and social position of the women's movement since 1968. The book reached many new editions to 1983.
Your 2012 published novel District Court awarded the German Book Prize. The work represents a Jewish judge in the center, which from exile in Havana to Germany returns in 1947 to his scattered family "and is shattered when he loses the battle for the restoration of his dignity in the confines of post-war Germany."
Ursula Krechel with Herbert Wiesner, former head of the Berlin House of Literature, married and lives in Berlin. She is a member of the PEN center of Germany and since 2012 the German Academy for Language and Literature.
Works
Title
- Information and Evaluation: Studies on the theater - and film- critical work of Herbert Jhering. Cologne 1972 ( dissertation).
- Erika. Frankfurt am Main in 1973.
- Self-awareness and heteronomy. Darmstadt et al 1975.
- After Mainz! Darmstadt et al 1977.
- Overthrow. Darmstadt 1977.
- Vulnerable as in the best of times. Darmstadt et al 1979.
- Second Nature. Darmstadt et al 1981.
- Rough cut. Darmstadt et al 1983.
- From the sun. Frankfurt am Main, 1985.
- Learning from the fire. Darmstadt et al 1985.
- Cocoa Blue. Salzburg et al 1989.
- Tribunal in askanischen yard. Berlin 1989 (together with Karin Reschke and Gisela von Wysocki )
- The Friends of the weather glow. Frankfurt am Main in 1990.
- Sit Stay Go. Frankfurt am Main in 1990.
- Playing with the body of his father. Frankfurt am Main in 1992.
- Art of awakening. Frankfurt am Main in 1992.
- Extremely inside. Frankfurt am Main, 1993 ( together with Irmgard Flemming )
- Sicilians of feeling. Frankfurt am Main in 1993.
- Landläufiges miracle. Frankfurt am Main in 1995.
- Ungezürnt. Frankfurt am Main in 1997.
- Bows to the air. Salzburg et al 1999.
- In Eichendorff. Edenkoben 2000.
- The encroachment. Salzburg et al 2001.
- Write to the future. Salzburg et al 2003.
- Love piece. Frankfurt am Main, 2003.
- My Hello your ear. Witzwort 2003.
- Voices from the hard core. Poem. Salzburg / Vienna 2005.
- Means Windwärts. Poem. to Cleats publisher, Springe 2006, ISBN 3-933156-86-6.
- Shanghai Far from where. Novel. Salzburg, Vienna 2008
- Suddenly lit darkness. Poems. Publisher Jung and Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902497-67-3.
- District court 's novel, published by Young and Young, Salzburg / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-99027-024-0.
Translation
- Jacques Roubaud: State of places. Heidelberg 2000
Publication
- Year Book of Poetry ( with Christoph Buchwald ), Darmstadt 1985
- Readings. Darmstadt et al 1982.
- Author Prose Workshop 1999. Leipzig 1999.