Tanja Dückers
Tanja Dückers (born September 25, 1968 in West Berlin ) is a German writer and journalist .
Life
Growing up in West Berlin , studied Dückers after graduating from the Walther Rathenau School majoring in German and North American studies and art history . Her master's thesis dealt with the aesthetics of the sublime in modern painting - an interdisciplinary work between American studies, art history and philosophy . Dückers is the daughter of the art historian Alexander Dückers.
In 1996 Dückers invented the secret script Autumnisch , samples of which can be read on their website. In the period 1995–1998, she worked alongside her writing activities for Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin, for which she wrote short news and weather forecast texts. The latter later inspired her, among other things, for her novel Heavenly Body (2003). Dückers also writes travel reports. Until a few years ago, she also saw herself as a partner in the Berlin poetry slam scene (reading stages with a strong live atmosphere), in which she was actively involved.
From 1998 to 2000 Dückers lived in Barcelona , supported by a grant from the Berlin Senate . She received several residency grants for writers and invitations to foreign educational institutions, which she took to California ( Villa Aurora ), Pennsylvania (Allegheny College, Meadville), Prague (Brandenburg Gate Foundation), Krakow ( Villa Decius ), Gotland (Baltic Center for Writers and Translators), Bristol (University of Bristol), Belgium (Het-Beschrijf-Literaturverein in Brussels), Sylt (Syltquelle scholarship holder) and Transylvania (cross-border commuter scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation ).
Another field of activity of Tanja Dückers is journalism. As an essayist , she frequently comments on contemporary debates. Other focal points are travel reports and articles on education and family policy.
Her earliest publications took place in small publishers. They were narrow volumes of poetry ( Bonsai-type Art Verlag ). As a trained literary scholar, she also worked as an editor in two Berlin publishing houses in the mid-1990s, in order to get to know this perspective better. She is committed to supporting up-and-coming authors whose work has attracted her positive attention through participating in reading stages.
In recent years Dückers has been involved in political and social issues. She organizes an annual reading in the “Red Salon” of the Berliner Volksbühne , the proceeds of which have so far been donated to the “ Berliner Kältehilfe ”, an institution that works for the homeless. Many well-known authors appeared at these solo readings, including Terézia Mora , Kathrin Röggla , Jakob Hein , Bodo Mrozek , Maike Wetzel , Annett Gröschner , Katja Lange-Müller , Jens Sparschuh , Norbert Kron , Jörg-Uwe Albig , Corinna Waffender , Anne Hahn and many others.
The magazine Cicero lists Dückers as one of "the 500 leading German-speaking intellectuals".
Dückers is married to the sociologist and journalist Anton Landgraf (managing editor of the Amnesty Journal ) and continues to live in her hometown of Berlin.
She is a member of the PEN Center Germany .
criticism
Reviewers accuse Dückers of writing too sensitively, sliding into the sentimental. The well-depicted flippant language of the Berlin subcultures and the bizarre plots and the large number of colored adjectives are praised.
The criticism of her novel Heavenly Bodies was very polarizing. While the Swiss World Week celebrated the novel as the “perfect book” and others raved that an author was taking on a political subject, others did not trust the author in their reviews to cope with a topic that Günter Grass had taken on at the same time (downfall of Wilhelm Gustloff ). The reactions to the anthology Stadt.Land.Krieg , in which Dückers published short stories by other representatives of the younger generation on Nazi issues , were also ambivalent .
Works
- 2016: My old West Berlin , Berlin: be.bra Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-89809-122-0
- 2010: Hausers Zimmer , Roman, Frankfurt am Main: Schöffling & Co., ISBN 978-3-89561-010-3
- 2007: Tomorrow after Utopia. Essays and reports. ISBN 978-3-7466-2297-2
- 2006: The longest day of the year , novel, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2006 ISBN 3-351-03068-1
- 2006: The harmonium
- 2005: way to school
- 2004: Multilingual tomatoes: Journeys in the head audio book CD (together with Bertram Denzel) ISBN 3-9809989-0-8
- City, country, war. anthology
- 2003: Celestial Body Novel
- 2003: The swimming cap
- 2001: Café Brazil Tales
- 2001: Airmail - Poems Berlin - Barcelona
- 1999: Spielzone debut novel
- 1996: Fireman , English poetry, Berlin: Bonsai-type Art Verlag
- 1996: Morse code , poetry, Berlin: Bonsai-type Art Verlag
Awards (selection)
- 2004: 2nd prize from the Polish Embassy and the Polish Cultural Institute Berlin
- 2002: 1st prize in the Kargo Europa competition ( female authors' forum )
- 2000: Promotion Prize of the Ruhr Area Literature Prize
Web links
- Literature by and about Tanja Dückers in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and information on the work of Tanja Dückers at Literaturport
- Official website of Tanja Dückers
- Poems by Tanja Dückers. Glarean Magazine, 2009
- Reviews of works by Tanja Dückers at perlentaucher.de
- Ulrich Goerdten: Annotated link collection ( memento from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) of the University Library of the Free University of Berlin
- Interpretations and list of works in the author's lexicon of the University of Duisburg-Essen / Faculty of Humanities - German Studies
Individual evidence
- ↑ CV on their website
- ↑ see Dücker's short biography in the authors' dictionary of the University of Duesburg-Essen; accessed on February 1, 2019
- ↑ Poetry and short prose texts and photo of her at Spoken Word Berlin
- ↑ Example: Literature is more political than its reputation. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 24, 2004.
- ↑ Article by Tanja Dückers at Zeit Online , accessed on June 18, 2012.
- ↑ cicero.de
- ↑ Imprint. Amnesty International , Section of the Federal Republic of Germany V. Access date: June 20, 2019.
- ↑ poetenladen.de On February 28, 2006 the reviewer Dorothea Gilde on the latest novel
- ↑ freitag.de Review of Tanja Dücker's novel Spielzone 1999 in the weekly newspaper Freitag
- ↑ literarischealtersbilder.uni-koeln.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dückers, Tanja |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dückersová, Tanja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | West Berlin |