Agnes Giesbrecht

Agnes Giesbrecht (also: Agnes Gossen-Giesbrecht , born February 2, 1953 as Agnes Gossen in Podolsk , Chkalow Oblast ) is a Russian-German writer and an important promoter of Russian-German literature in Germany.

Life

Agnes Giesbrecht grew up in Podolsk , a German village south of the Urals , with Plautdietsch as her mother tongue. The village of Podolsk belongs to the New Samara colony founded by the Russian Mennonites . Giesbrecht completed the Russian elementary and middle school, but only from the 2nd grade with German as his mother tongue, and dealt with Russian and German literature from an early age . From 1970 she studied Slavic Studies at the Pedagogical Institute in Orenburg . She worked as a Russian teacher and moved to the Autonomous Soviet Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the Caucasus with her parents and her 3-year-old son in 1978 after their marriage was divorced in 1974 . There she continued her work as a teacher continued, completed at the same time via distance learning , a training for librarian and worked as a librarian in the city prokhladny . Agnes Giesbrecht wrote journalistic articles and was active in promoting young authors. In 1989 she followed her parents and left for the Federal Republic of Germany with her son . Since then she has worked as a librarian at the Bonn University Library and as a lecturer for Russian at the Bonn Adult Education Center, has been involved in the interests of Russian-German and Plautdietsch authors and organizes seminars for German authors from Russia.

Agnes Giesbrecht is the author of poems , stories and essays . During her time in the Soviet Union , she also published poems in Russian there . She translated the book German Musicians in Russia by Denis Lomtew (edited by BMV Burau-Verlag) as well as other stories and poems from Russian into German. Giesbrecht is a member of the Association of German Writers and from 1995 to 2007 was the head of the literary circle of Germans from Russia, which she co-founded . In 2008 she received the Merit Medal ( Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ) for her services to the integration of Russian-German authors . In 2010 she was awarded the Russian German Culture Prize (honorary gift) of the state of Baden-Württemberg in the field of literature and literary studies.

Works

The spring dances , Lage-Hörste (Westphalia) 2000
Between yesterday and today , Lage-Hörste (Westphalia) 2000
Echo of love , Lage-Hörste (Westphalia) 2003
Between love and word , Vechta-Langförden 2004
Zeittropfen , Lage-Hörste, 2010

Editing

Childhood in Russia , Vechta-Langförden 2005
What people make fun of , Vechta-Langförden 2004

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personal data
SURNAME	Giesbrecht, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gossen-Giesbrecht, Agnes; Gossen, Agnes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Podolsk , Chkalov Oblast