Angela Steidele

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Angela Steidele at the 2015 Bavarian Book Prize ceremony

Angela Steidele (born December 18, 1968 in Bruchsal ) is a German author . She writes non-fiction and novels. Among other things, her books are about love stories between same-sex people based on historical sources from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Career

After graduating from high school, Angela Steidele worked as a volunteer for the Aktion Sühnezeichen e. V. in Israel first in a kibbutz , then in a nursing home. From 1990 to 1996 she studied literature , musicology and philosophy in Hildesheim and received her doctorate in general literature from the University of Siegen in 2002 . Then she taught at universities. Between 2003 and 2004 she was a researcher at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Uppsala . In her dissertation published in 2003 as if you were my lover. Love and desire between women in German-language literature 1750-1850 is already included in Steidele's basic theme. From 2006 to 2007 she was a visiting professor at the University of Hildesheim . In the following years she concentrated on her own book projects.

Angela Steidele lives in Cologne .

Works

In her non-fiction books and in her first novel, Angela Steidele uses scientific sources to shed light on little-known areas of the history of love and desire between same-sex people in the 18th and 19th centuries, mainly between lesbian women. The focus is on the life and love stories of historical figures such as Catharina Linck , Adele Schopenhauer and Sibylle Mertens as well as contemporary concepts of illness, sexuality and gender in epochs in which “the self-image of a homosexual identity did not historically exist”.

In men's clothes (2004)

In 2004, the monograph In Men's Clothes followed. The daring life of Catharina Linck alias Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel, executed in 1721 , a biography of a woman who was executed in Europe for the offense of sodomy (in the sense of fornication with another woman). Catharina Margaretha Linck appeared in men's clothes under the speaking name Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel. She placed a leather dildo between her legs for sexual intercourse with women. She first became a prophet in a radical pietist wandering sect , fought as a soldier for seven years, was baptized four times and married Catharina Margaretha Mühlhahn twice. Susanne Kord emphasized that the book shows how much legal , medical and philosophical discourses were still in flux in the 18th century . Linck's case is one of the first in which homosexuality is treated as a disease . At the legal level it is remarkable that there was disagreement among the judges in this process as to whether the imposition of the death penalty for fornication was even possible, when fornication without a penis had been considered impossible until then. From a philosophical point of view, it is finally remarkable that Catharina Linck was still able to appear as a man in her time for social (not hormonal !) Reasons, which a century later was no longer possible. During Linck's lifetime, the view that femininity was anchored in the female body was not yet generally accepted.

Story of a Love (2011)

Story of a love: Adele Schopenhauer and Sibylle Mertens combine authentic sources such as letters and diary excerpts from the first half of the 19th century with their own text parts through a "permanent flowing movement between original quotations and their own text." The subject of the book is the love affair between the two women and the situation in their social environment.

Hanna Hacker described the text as an “exciting experiment in the space between history and fiction .” Jens Bisky praised Steidele for allowing her heroines to have their say in detail and yet not getting lost in the multitude of quotes .

Rose stem (2015)

In 2015 Steidele published the novel Rosenstengel: A manuscript from Ludwig II's circle , which was awarded the Bavarian Book Prize. The book mixes historical facts and literary invention in a way that is difficult to see through. It pretends to be a historical collection of documents, the editor of which Steidele appears in the foreword. The main part consists of two fictitious correspondence in the language of the 18th and 19th centuries, which are presented alternately and in different font colors. One contains letters from the beginning of the 18th century in which contemporaries from Halle and Halberstadt exchange views on the case of Catharina Margaretha Linck, already described above. At the center of the second correspondence from the end of the 19th century are King Ludwig II of Bavaria and his doctor Franz Carl Müller. (The real existing Müller was not only Ludwig's doctor, but also the rediscoverer of the historical Catharina Linck.) In the novel, King von Müller learns the story of Catharina Linck and reflects on it in his letters. At the same time, the young doctor becomes part of a conspiracy without knowledge or will , the aim of which is to declare the king insane for medical reasons and therefore to be able to remove him. A subliminal love affair develops between Ludwig and Müller in the course of the novel; After Ludwig's death, his cousin and confidante Sisi Müller is complicit in the king's death because he did not reveal his homosexuality and love for Ludwig. Thus, “two people with a double life” form the framework of Steidele's debut novel . The two protagonists exemplarily show “that life is not a given, but that we all more or less invent it.” While Linck invented a whole series of identities for himself, Ludwig II defined himself as “King of art, as a fairy tale knight and builder fantastic castles. "

Awards (selection)

Publications

  • Writing as pleasure: Glinka Steinwachs' formal language and its relationship to ecriture feminine , Hildesheim 1996, OCLC 258628594 ( Diploma thesis University of Hildesheim , FB II, 1996, 102 pages, supervisor: Hanns-Josef Ortheil ).
  • As if you were my lover Love and desire between women in German-language literature 1750–1850 (= M - & - P series for science and research. Literature ), Metzler Verlag , 2003, ISBN 3-476-45313-8 (dissertation [Uni Siegen 2002]) .
  • In men's clothes. The daring life of Catharina Linck alias Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel, executed in 1721. Biography and documentation , Böhlau, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-412-16703-7 .
  • "Lived with each other for several years as a man and woman". Catharina Margaretha Linck (1687–1721) and Catharina Margaretha Mühlhahn (1697–1776). In: Joey Horsley, Luise F. Pusch (eds.): Women's stories. Famous women and their girlfriends , Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0634-9 , pp. 19–49.
  • Story of a love: Adele Schopenhauer and Sibylle Mertens , Insel, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-458-35731-9 .
  • Rose stem. A manuscript from the environment of Ludwig II , Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-136-6
  • Anne Lister. An erotic biography . Berlin: Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2017 ISBN 978-3-95757-445-9
  • Time travel. Four women, two centuries, one way . Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2018 ISBN 978-3-95757-635-4
  • Poetics of Biography . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95757-803-7 .

Cooperation

  • Foreword and editing: Ingrid Bodsch (Ed.): Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen 1797–1857: On the 150th anniversary of the death of the “Rheingräfin” , Stadtmuseum Bonn , Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-931878-21-X .
  • Translation: W. Daniel Wilson: Goethe men boys: Views on homosexuality , Insel Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 3-458-17542-3 .

Reviews and interviews

In men's clothes

Story of a love

Rose stem

Web links

Commons : Angela Steidele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Literature portrayal on Angela Steidele , accessed on November 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ Hanna Hacker : Angela Steidele, story of a love: Adele Schopenhauer and Sibylle Mertens. In: L'Homme. Böhlau Verlag, 2010, Volume 21 (2), ISSN  1016-362X , p. 179.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Susanne Kord: In men's clothes: The daring life of Catharina Margaretha Linck alias Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel, executed in 1721. Biography and documentation (Book Review). In: Modern Humanities Research Association (Ed.): The Modern Language Review. Maney Publishing, April 2006, Volume 101 (2), ISSN  0026-7937 , p. 570.
  4. ↑ Hanna Hacker: Angela Steidele, story of a love: Adele Schopenhauer and Sibylle Mertens. In: L'Homme. Böhlau Verlag, 2010, Volume 21 (2), ISSN  1016-362X , p. 178.
  5. ↑ Hanna Hacker: Angela Steidele, story of a love: Adele Schopenhauer and Sibylle Mertens. In: L'Homme. Böhlau Verlag, 2010, Volume 21 (2), ISSN  1016-362X , p. 180.
  6. ↑ Jens Bisky: Unter der Eisrinde , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 18, 2010, accessed on November 6, 2015.
  7. ↑ Angela Steidele in Worth reading. Ilija Trojanow and Angela Steidele at Denis Scheck. SWR , October 22, 2015, accessed on November 5, 2015.
  8. ↑ Sabine Reithmaier (in an interview with Angela Steidele): One psychiatrist, two split selves. Ludwig II in madness and a woman in trousers won Angela Steidele the Bavarian Book Prize. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 279, December 3, 2015, p. R22.
  9. ↑ a b Simone Trieder: Mad game with facts and fiction on fixpoetry.com , November 5, 2015, accessed on November 26, 2015.
  10. ↑ Angela Steidele in the audio document: Women's life. From the life of a soldier in knee breeches to the Atlantic flight of the "Lady Africa": Gutenberg's world follows women on their adventurous lives ( memento of the original from November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Gutenbergs Welt, WDR 3 , moderation: Insa Wilke, editing: Adrian Winkler, September 13, 2015, 8:00 am, accessed on November 5, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wdr3.de
  11. ↑ Sabrina Wagner: Historical novel 'Rosenstengel': clues for a shattered soul. In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 11, 2015, accessed November 6, 2015.
  12. ↑ a b Angela Steidele in an interview with Sabine Reithmaier: One psychiatrist, two split selves. Ludwig II in madness and a woman in trousers won Angela Steidele the Bavarian Book Prize. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 279, December 3, 2015, p. R22.
  13. ↑ Sabine Vogel: I would delete the sentence Berliner Zeitung, May 30, 2011.
  14. ↑ SWR best list November 2015 (PDF) accessed on November 28, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Steidele, Angela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal , Baden