Brigitte Burmeister

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Brigitte Burmeister , pseudonym Franziska Saalburg , Liv Morten (born September 25, 1940 in Posen ) is a German literary scholar , writer and translator .

Burmeister grew up in Halle (Saale) . After graduating from high school, she worked in a machine factory for a year; She then studied Romance languages at the University of Leipzig from 1960 to 1965 . From 1967 she was a research assistant at the Central Institute for the History of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin . In 1973 she received her doctorate in philosophy . During her academic career, her research focused on the French Enlightenment and the Nouveau Roman . Since 1983 she has lived as a freelance writer and translator in Berlin, and since the 1990s she has undertaken a. a. Travels to Pakistan , Mexico , USA , South Africa , New Zealand , the People's Republic of China and India . She currently lives in Waren (Müritz) .

Brigitte Burmeister made her debut as an author in 1987 with a novel in the tradition of the nouveau roman , unusual for GDR literature , which can be read as a kind of parable on the conditions in the GDR . Since German reunification , her topic has been the problem of German division, which continues to exist in everyday life, so her novel Under the name Norma was generally regarded by critics as one of the most successful contemporary novels in German-language literature of the 1990s.

She is a member of the PEN Center Germany . From 1991, Burmeister was a member of the East German PEN Center; she was a member of the presidium both there and later in the all-German PEN center and was particularly involved in the writers-in-prison committee. From 2001 to 2012 she was a member of the board of the German Literature Fund in Darmstadt.

In 1994 she received the New York Scholarship of the Kranichstein Literature Prize and the German Critics' Prize , in 1996 she was writer in residence at the University of Warwick , in 2003/04 she was poet in residence at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

Works

Editing

Translations

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Kulturkritische Schriften - Treatise on the origin and the basis of inequality among the people. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1989 DNB 891620885 .
  • Bernard Vinot: Saint-Just. Stuttgart 1989 (translated under the name Franziska Saalburg) DNB 881423475 .
  • Pierre Bergounioux: The Pink House. Berlin 1991 DNB 921013280 .
  • Alain Corbin : The village of the cannibals. Stuttgart 1992 DNB 911362878 .
  • Alain Nadaud: The other death. Stuttgart 2000 DNB 958873526 .
  • Alain Nadaud: Melting ice. Stuttgart 2003 DNB 965664775 .

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personal data
SURNAME Burmeister, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franziska Saalburg (pseudonym); Liv Morten (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses