Esther Dischereit

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Esther Dischereit (2014)

Esther Dischereit (born on April 23, 1952 in Heppenheim , Bergstrasse ) is a poet, essayist, narrator as well as a theater and radio play author. She is received as an important voice of the second generation after the Holocaust. From 2012 to 2017 Esther Dischereit taught as a professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Life

Esther Dischereit was born in Hessen in 1952. She worked in the metal industry and as a typesetter, and since 1985 she has worked as a writer and journalist. In 1988 a collaboration began with various musicians, including Ray Kaczynski , Friedemann Graef , Rüdiger Carl , Johannes Niebergall, Bülent Ates, Rajesh Mehta and Tonbüro Berlin et al. In 1991 Esther Dischereit founded the label wordmusic together with Ray Kaczynski, with which she merged her rhythmic pieces of speech with musical elements.

Esther Dischereit has received numerous German and international grants since 1988, for example she was a fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam in 1995.

From 1996 she gave guest lectures at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Washington University of St. Louis, Cornell University, Ithaca, MIT, Boston, University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University and the like. a. in USA and Canada. Dischereit made further lecture and reading trips from 1993 onwards at the invitation of various Goethe Institutes and universities to the USA, to Medellín / Colombia and to European countries. Until 1994 she was a union officer for ÖTV and from 2001 to 2006 she was a curator for the German Trade Union Federation Berlin: contemporary art / new media at the DGB (cultural representative in the DGB district Berlin Brandenburg), which resigned her because of alleged austerity measures (cultural and anti-racism work should be dropped) , against which she successfully proceeded in a process including appeal process. There were also public protests in 2006 in connection with the dismissal from her job.

International invitations as an author since 2007: 5th world poetry festival, Caracas, Venezuela, 2008; “A Dress from Warsaw” , screenplay together with Michal Otlowski Warsaw / Berlin 2007, nominated for Prix Genève - Europe, 2007 First international conference of Jewish writers kisufim, Jerusalem, Israel, 2007 Poetry. Against the silent , 3rd Outspoken, Münster 2007 Guest of honor at the conference Women in German, USA, 2006 Luncheon speaker GSA-conference, USA; 2006 Writer in residence, Deutsches Haus, New York, USA; 2004 Visiting University of Wales, Swansea, UK, 2004 Symposion on Dischereits work, Swansea, UK; 2004 Festival de Poesia, Medellin, Columbia.

Further interdisciplinary collaborations with the dancer and choreographer Holly Handman-Lopez (Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, Miller Theater, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York) for the piece Before the High Holidays there was a whisper and rustle in the house . Esther Dischereit presents her book Flowers for Otello (2014) together with the German-Turkish musician and DJane Ipek Ipekcioglu at bilingual readings.

Dischereit has lived in Berlin since 1989 and in Vienna since 2012.

Esther Dischereit was an observer of the NSU investigative committee of the German Bundestag from 2012 to 2013.

Between 2012 and 2017, Esther Dischereit was professor for language art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Honors

2014 Invitation to Das Blaue Sofa at the Leipzig Book Fair with the book Flowers for Otello . In 2009 Esther Dischereit received the Erich Fried Prize in Vienna. In 2008 Esther Dischereit won the tender for an acoustic Holocaust memorial for the city of Dülmen in Westphalia. The 55 sound signals on Eichengrünplatz in Dülmen are documented in the volume Before the High Holidays there was a whisper and rustling in the house . Esther Dischereit accepted the following invitations: 5th world poetry festival, Caracas, Venezuela, 2008 “A Dress from Warsaw”, screenplay with Michal Otlowski Warsaw / Berlin 2007, nominated for Prix Genève - Europe, 2007 First international conference of Jewish writers kisufim, Jerusalem , Israel, 2007 Poetry. Against silence , 3rd Outspoken, Münster 2007 Guest of honor at the conference Women in German, USA, 2006 Luncheon speaker GSA-conference, USA, 2006 Writer in residence, Deutsches Haus, New York, USA, 2004 guest stay at the University of Wales , Swansea, UK, 2004 Symposion on Dischereits work, Swansea, UK and 2004 Festival de Poesia, Medellin, Columbia. In 2003 the radio play “A Chicken for Mr Boe” was nominated for the 51st radio play award of the war blind and the radio play “Red Shoes” received the title radio play of the month, the radio play Kaffee im Haus by Zara Naor became the radio play week in Berlin played. In May 1993, Esther Dischereit's radio play Red Shoes was named Radio Play of the Month .

Projects

  • 2016 The other's gaze - inside | Outside | Heymat. In cooperation with the young salon Brick 5, Salon 5 in the Nestroyhof Theater Hamakom-Theater - in the 15th district of Vienna. Fled, arrived, immigrated. Semester project Institute for Language Art University of Applied Arts, [Concept | Head] Realization March 2016

Works prose

  • Big Face Child // The Child With The Big Face , translated into English by Iain Galbraith. Walter de Gruyter, Edition: 'angewandte, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-041434-9
  • Flowers for Otello. About the crimes of Jena. Lamentations // Otello için Çiçekler. Jena Cinayetlerine Dair. Ağitlar , in German and Turkish. Translated from German into Turkish by Saliha Yeniyol. See edition published by Secession Verlag für Literatur, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-905951-28-8
  • The morning of the newspaper carrier. Stories , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-518-12496-X
  • Merryn , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-40436-9
  • Joëmi's table. A Jewish story , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-11492-1
  • Anna makes breakfast children's book, with pictures by Cornelia Seidlein , dtv, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-423-07551-1

Volumes of poetry

  • Before the high holidays there was a whisper and rustling in the house //Before the Holy Days the House Was Full of Whisperings an Rustlings. Dülmen Eichengrünplatz . With a foreword by Barbara Hahn. Typography Veruschka Götz. AvivA, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-932338-38-0
  • There's a slice of bread in the toaster. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-930916-85-1
  • Rauhreifiger Mund or other news , Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-930916-43-6
  • When I opened my Golem , Karl-Stutz Verlag, Passau 1997, ISBN 3-88849-033-2

Essays

  • With Eichmann on the stock exchange. In Jewish and other matters , Ullstein, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89834-031-7
  • Exercises in being Jewish. Articles , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-12067-0

Publications as editor and supervisor

  • 2016: Garz Literary Field Research. A village in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Students at the Institute for Linguistic Art at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (to be published)
  • 2015: I want it to be my business. The search for memory // I want it to be my concern. In Search of Memory in German and English. A project by the Institut für Sprachkunst as part of the vienna project. Esther Dischereit and Ferdinand Schmatz (eds.) Including film documentation, Walter de Gruyter, Edition: 'angewandte, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-042540-6
  • 2015: The group is attracted . Course book in cooperation with the Faculty of Design at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany, magazine
  • 2013: Market and Cities topic language art the applied. Magazine of the University of Applied Arts Vienna Edition 04/2013 in cooperation with the Faculty for Design of the University of Mannheim, Germany. magazine

Essays

  • 2016: When I got my golem In: Emily D. Bilski and Martina Lüdicke [ed.] The golem is coming. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld and Berlin, 2016
  • 2015: Seabees, Naval Basel Ventura County, California, Annual Ceremony of Seabees Days, 2008. In: Notes on the literary business of political writing. Magazine. Book Fair Frankfurt am Main, 2015
  • 2015: Josef S. Akademikerball in Vienna - Protests - Conviction - Lowering the sentence - Outdated breach of the peace paragraph 2.7.2015 Trial at the Higher Regional Court in Vienna. In: Fixpoetry, July 2nd, 2015
  • 2015: Forward and Forgetting Sent to: Esther Dischereit: The walls were thick here. Deutschlandradio Kultur, February 18, 2015
  • 2015: introduction . In: Esther Dischereit and Ferdinand Schmatz [Hg] I want it to be my business. The search for memory , Edition Angewandte, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2015
  • 2015: [Surviving] living and writing in China . In: Die Presse, guest commentary, wine, 16.06.2015
  • 2014: The faces of the neighbors. An epilogue. In: Andreas Förester: NSU secret matter . Ten murders, no trace of any investigation. Tübingen, Klöpfer & Meyer. Pp. 293–303 and time line NSU complex pp. 293–309 (from: Flowers for Otello , 2014) ISBN 978-3-86351-086-2
  • 2011: Brocade / carp / shepherd's song / Bob Dylan / Peaches . In: December 24th. New Christmas Stories , Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin, pp. 93-105, ISBN 978-3-518-46281-2
  • 2003: Epilogue to Gertrud Kolmar: The Jewish mother . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt
  • 2002: Her dignity was important to her. In: do me a love. My mom from Viola Roggenkamp. Berlin pp. 94-101
  • 2000: How nobody likes it when I remember. In: German-Jewish literature of the nineties. The generation after the Shoah. Supplement to the Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie, pp. 220–221 (contributions to the international symposium November 26-29, 2000 in the Literary Colloquium Berlin-Wannsee)
  • 1999: Auguststrasse. In: Meshulash Berlin: DAVKA Jüdische Visionen in Berlin / Jewish visions in Berlin , Aviva Verlag, Berlin
  • 1998: A very young girl meets Nelly Sachs. In: Jüdischer Almanach 1998, pp. 9–15, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1997: Max Liebermann - The difficulties of the descendants, a sports club and politics. In: Frankfurter Hefte 7/1997, pp. 642–647
  • 1997: The dissidents are still there - essay in: Frankfurter Rundschau, June 10, 1997, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1997: Afterword to Jeannette Lander. In: An Interrupted Journey , pp. 155–176, Berlin, 1997
  • 1996: Amnesty, the police and the 'normal xenophobia ' in kda, 2/1996
  • 1995: "Between the Pictures". Thoughts on Poles, Jews and Germans. In: "Once upon a time. Warsaw in the autumn of 1939" (Ed. Peter Steinbach / Stefan Rammer, Passau 1995)
  • 1995: "... It could actually be much better and different." About the socialist Rosi Wolfstein-Frölich 1914 to 1924. In: She never wanted to do something half done. Witten: Verlag der Rosi-Wolfstein-Gesellschaft, pp. 22-29, 1995
  • 1995: No exit from this Jewry. In: Sander L. Gilman / Karen Remmler ( eds .) Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany , pp. 266–281
  • 1995: Between the pictures . In: Stefan Rammler / Peter Steinbach (eds.) Once upon a time. Warsaw in autumn 1939. Passau. Pp. 35-45.
  • 1988: South Korea - no country for peaceful games. Together with M. Denis u. a. Reinbek near Hamburg.

Audio pieces

  • 2015: "The walls were thick here." Particle from the large-faced child Composition and guitar: Frank Wingold, SWR Tandem Esther Dischereit and Marcus Meyer, June 2, 2015
  • 2015: "Forward and forget" , a text by Esther Dischereit about first trips to former GDR companies in the early 1990s, read by the author. Deutschlandradio Kultur on February 18, 2015
  • 2014: The walls were thick here - (Author's production)
  • 2014: Flowers for Otello ; Director: Giuseppe Maio , music: Lutz Glandien , (DeutschlandRadio Kultur)
  • Before the high holidays there was a whisper and rustling in the house // Before the Holy Days the House Was Full of Whisperings an Rustlings. Dülmen Eichengrünplatz Music: Dieter Kaufmann . With a foreword by Barbara Hahn. AvivA, Berlin, 2009, 2 CDs, 79 min.
  • 2011: Radio plays Wurfsendung Anna Kaufmann , director: Beatrix Ackers, text editing for radio based on: Esther Dischereit Brokat / Karpfen / Hirtenlied / Bob Dylan / Peaches. In: Susanne Gretter (Ed.) December 24th New Christmas Stories , Suhrkamp, ​​2011. (DeutschlandRadio Kultur, 10 series, from December 2011)
  • 2008: Container flaps 1-11 (DeutschlandRadio Kultur)
  • 2008 & 2012 & 2014 direct broadcasts (DeutschlandRadio Kultur)
  • 2008: Nothing to know but coffee to go , director: Robert Schoen (original broadcast: DeutschlandRadio Kultur)
  • 2003: Mellie under the label WordMusic with Moritz Denis and Eike Hosenfeld, Tonbüro Berlin
  • 2003: A chicken for Mr Boe , director: Beatrix Ackers , music: Max Nagl (NDR Kultur) nominated for 51st radio play award of the war blind (DeutschlandRadio Kultur)
  • 2001: Strange pieces were found in Alma's room Director: Stefanie Hoster (DeutschlandRadio Kultur)
  • 2000: Sommerwind and other circles (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2000: I cover myself up with the times Music: Ray Kaczynski (DeutschlandRadio Kultur)
  • 1999: addresses. About the non-communicability of the trauma of the second generation after the Shoa sound / word / sound improvisations: Group TONGedichte Friedemann Graef (sax), Ray Kaczynski (percussion), since 1996, Berlin; Imago Group 1988; Jazz / sound with Johannes Niebergall (bass), Rüdiger Carl (sax), Bülent Ates (drums); Frankfurt a. M., Passau, Berlin (original broadcast: DeutschlandRadio Berlin)
  • 1998: Coffee in Zara Noar's house , director: Annette Kührmeyer, (SR)
  • 1998: Cacti 4th to 6th hour , word / composition music together with the composer Ray Kaczyinski - 12.10 min. (SR)
  • 1997: Gertrud Conners - A former political prisoner of the GDR, ransomed to the West, her perceptions in 1989. - Five short radio plays, 26 min. (Original broadcast: Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1997: The scissors grinder , direction and music: Heinz von Cramer , A Jew and a Gentile Woman, a Relationship after 1945. (Original broadcast: Saarländischer Rundfunk) 55.03 min.
  • 1996: Christoph Dohm The Protagonist, belonging to the second generation after the Shoah, European Gymnasium Passau
  • 1996: Christoph Dohm fragment for organ and soprano together with the composer Udo Agnesens , Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche, Berlin; Passau (20 min.)
  • 1993: Rote Shoes , director: Stefanie Hoster, (original broadcast: Saarländischer Rundfunk; broadcast by Deutschlandfunk, Bayr. Rundfunk, Bremen, RAI Italy, Bozen - radio play of the month May / 93) 47.40 min.
  • 1993: I pull the colors out of my skin , director: Christiane Ohaus , Täter ... Victims in Germany after 1945 (original broadcast: Saarländischer Rundfunk, Deutschlandfunk, Bayr. Rundfunk \ Hess. Rundfunk, Bremen, Baden-Baden) 48.17 Min.

Scholarships

  • 2010: Writer-in-Residence, Oberlin College, USA
  • 2003: Ernst Straßmann Foundation
  • 1990/1995: Prussian Sea Trade Foundation Berlin
  • 1998: Senate of Berlin
  • 1987: Hessian Ministry for Science and Art
  • Cooperation with the Goethe Institute in Europe, USA, Latin America

literature

  • Katharina Hall: Esther Dischereit (collection of articles and bibliography), English and German. Univ. of Wales Press, Cardiff 2007 (Contemporary German writers), ISBN 0-7083-1991-2
  • Itta Shedletzky: A German-Jewish voice seeks a hearing. On Esther Dischereit's novels, radio plays and poems. In: Stefan Braese (1998) In the language of the perpetrators. New readings of German-language post-war and contemporary literature. Pp. 199-225.

Audio

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TU Berlin - Media Information No. 261: Joëmis Tisch - A Jewish Story by Esther Dischereit , November 27, 1997
  2. ↑ Literaturbüro NRW-Ruhr: Ester Dischereit (Berlin) ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (without a date); accessed March 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.literaturbuero-ruhr.de
  3. ↑ Portrait of the publisher at Suhrkamp (accessed January 11, 2009)
  4. ↑ haGalil.com: Open letter to the DGB: Esther Dischereit do not quit! , June 17, 2006
  5. ↑ : Secession publisher June 10, 2015
  6. ^ Der Tagesspiegel : Autobahnmauthausen , May 2, 2008
  7. ↑ : Esther Dischereit 2014 on the "Blue Sofa" at the Book Fair in Leipzig with her book Flowers for Otello . ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. June 22, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  8. ↑ Der Standard : [1] , August 21, 2009
  9. ↑ Before the high holidays there was a whispering and rustling in the house Link to the homepage of the publication and the installation on Eichengrünplatz in Dülmen , June 8, 2015
  10. ↑ : Program Brick, Vienna March 2016, The View of the Other, Inside | Outside | Heymat , June 21, 2016
  11. ↑ Tracking down the humiliations of childhood , DRK review by Sigrid Brinkmann , June 8, 2015
  12. ^ Book presentation Großgesichtiges Kind in Vienna. Recording of the applied by Riccardo Ajossa , June 22, 2016
  13. ↑ Review by Elisabeth Wagner: The gesture of mourning is proud and strong in the taz on July 8, 2014 , June 8, 2015
  14. ↑ Review from in | ad | ae | qu | at Herbert J. Wimmer ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. June 8, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zintzen.org
  15. ↑ Ice Age: A book of poems by Esther Dischereit that is well worth reading - review on haGalil.com , December 31, 2003
  16. ↑ : SWR2 Particle from Big Face Child Author's production with Marcus Meyer June 8, 2015
  17. ↑ : Scenes about flowers for Otello Deutschlandradio Kultur, listen to until October 19, 2016 June 22, 2016
  18. ↑ [2]
personal data
SURNAME Dischereit, Esther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Heppenheim (Bergstrasse)