Sybil Countess Schönfeldt

Sybil Countess Schönfeldt, Frankfurt Book Fair 2007

Anna Sybil Countess Schönfeldt (born February 13, 1927 in Bochum , real name Sybil Schlepegrell ) is an Austrian-German writer and journalist .

Life

Sybil Countess Schönfeldt was born as the daughter of Carl Graf von Schönfeldt (1898–1984) and his first wife Carmen nee. Sackermann (1905–1927) born in Bochum. Her ancestors from Meißner nobility were raised to the rank of imperial count in Vienna in 1704 . Her mother died seven weeks after she was born at the age of 22. She grew up in Nassau an der Lahn , in Göttingen and in Berlin and was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in Upper Silesia in 1944 as the last class. After the Second World War she studied German literature and art history in Göttingen , Heidelberg , Hamburg and Vienna and was established in 1951 in Vienna with the theme of studies on the problem of form in poetry Josef Weinheber Dr. phil. PhD. In 1952 she volunteered at the Göttinger Tageblatt . In 1957 Schönfeldt married Heinrich Schlepegrell, who has since died and with whom she has two sons. She lives and works in Hamburg-Winterhude .

Services

Schönfeldt works as a journalist, translator, children's book and cookbook author, was a freelancer for Die Zeit , Stern and other magazines as well as radio and television.

From 1981 to 1984 she was chairman of the working group for youth literature, then second chairwoman of the "Foreign Press". From 1989 to 1991 she taught at the Berlin branch of the Hamburg Henri Nannen School .

Until 1996 she received three gold medals and five silver medals from the Gastronomic Academy of Germany for her gastronomic books .

Awards

• 1963: German storyteller award
• 1968: German Youth Book Prize
• 1972: Wilhelmine Lübke television award
• 1977: Grand Prize of the German Academy for Children's and Young People's Literature eV Volkach
• 1979: Honor list of the most beautiful Austrian books
• 1980: European Youth Book Prize
• 1981/82: Bamberg Journalist Prize
• 1981: Honor list of the most beautiful books in Germany
• 1982: Honorary list of the Hans Christian Andersen Translator Prize

Fonts (selection)

• 1 × 1 of good tone: The new etiquette. Mosaik, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-570-03149-7 ; as paperback Rowohlt, Reinbek 1991, ISBN 978-3-499-18877-0 and Wunderlich, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-499-26331-9 .
• Special roll call. Novel. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-423-25200-3 .
• I ate at Goethe's yesterday. Images of a new hospitality. Arche Verlag, Zurich-Hamburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-7160-2301-3 .
• Fine people come late ... or: at Thomas Mann's table. Table delights in Lübeck's Buddenbrookhaus. Arche Verlag, Zurich-Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-7160-2322-8 .
• Hospitality in lush and economical times. Walks through Theodor Fontane's Eating Landscapes. Arche Verlag, Zurich-Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-7160-2349-5 .
• At table with Astrid Lindgren. Arche, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7160-2374-7 .
• Astrid Lindgren. Revised new edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-50703-8 .
• My cats. Zurich-Hamburg: Arche Literatur 2007, ISBN 978-3-7160-2368-6 , 90 pp.
• Decency. Munich 2008, ISBN 3-492-05129-4 .
• The Bible - the Old Testament: retold for children and adults. Illustrations by Klaus Ensikat . Tulipan, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939944-33-1 .
• At the table, at the table! A literary and culinary journey through the 20th century. Arche Verlag, Zurich / Hamburg 2010 ISBN 978-3-7160-2641-0 .
• Hope for the better. From the long way to a new time. A family story . Sagas, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-944660-00-4 .
• You are an elephant, madame. My stories from the Federal Republic of Germany . Sagas, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-944660-05-9 .
• Astrid Lindgren. Memories of a woman of the century. ebersbach & simon, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-386915-151-9
• Cookbook for the little old woman . Edition Momente, Zurich / Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-0360-6001-9 .

Translations (selection)

• Elaine Horseman : Wizardry in the old house . Illustrated v. Karlheinz Groß , Union, Stuttgart 1971
• Elaine Horseman : Magic Journey to the Stone Age . Illustrated v. Karlheinz Groß , Union, Stuttgart 1973
• Roald Dahl : witches witches . Illustrated v. Amelie Glienke , Wunderlich, Reinbek 1986, ISBN 978-3-8052-0405-7
• Lewis Carroll : Alice in Wonderland . Illustrated v. Dieter Wiesmüller , cbj, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-570-13256-2
• Richard Carpenter : Catweazle , the great magician . Special edition published by Ravensburger Verlag 1973 and 1974, ISBN 978-3-473-36988-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Sybil Countess Schönfeldt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Sybil Countess Schönfeldt  in the German Digital Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Sybil Countess Schönfeldt at perlentaucher.de
• Sybil Countess Schönfeldt in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• The etiquette expert Portrait of Countess Sybil Schönfeldt
• Hans-Juergen Fink: Countess Sybil Schönfeldt knows what is right in the Hamburger Abendblatt , February 15, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ^ Munzinger archive
2. ↑ Info on uni-goettingen.de
3. ↑ Cf. Fink, Hans-Juergen: “A house visit in Winterhude. Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt knows what belongs ", in: Hamburger Abendblatt, February 15, 2012, at: http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article2188387/Sybil-Graefin-Schoenfeldt-weiss-was-sich- gehoert.html (accessed February 10, 2013).