Angelika Koller

Angelika Koller, self-portrait through a mirror, 2011

Angelika Koller (born December 2, 1955 in Munich ) is a German journalist and adult education teacher in Munich.

Life

Angelika Koller graduated from high school in 1975 and then studied German and Catholic theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU), but also worked her way into psychology . In 1980 she passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools, which was followed by her legal clerkship. From 1982 she worked in publishing, first as a salaried editor for bibliographical works at KG Saur-Verlag, from 1993 freelance for various book and press publishers (arsEdition; Focus ). In addition, Koller did a doctorate in literature . Since 1992 she has been working at the Münchner Volkshochschule for the Munich educational path and leads courses on literature , world religions and psychology.

During her school and university days, Koller published poems and stories in literary magazines ( watering can , federlese , flight ash ) and for Bayerischer Rundfunk ( Pop Sunday , Zündfunk editorial staff ). She took part in literary competitions (" Literary March 2" in Darmstadt) and in the literary talks in the Milky Way office, founded by Kay Ken Derrick.

Apart from her dissertation , Koller also appeared as an author or editor of so-called “gift books” for arsEdition and published non-fiction books and articles in specialist journals.

Works

Fiction

• The trip to Bologna. Poems. Edition Walfisch, Stuttgart 1985.
• Milky Way Atlas '84. Reading material from Munich and the surrounding area. Poems. Haidhauser Werkstat (t) texte 6–11 / 84, pp. 143–147.
• Series The Scented Library. Several volumes such as Christmas, The Language of Flowers, The Language of Wildflowers. arsEdition, Munich.

Non-fiction

• Minnesang reception around 1800. Case studies on the Romantics and their contemporaries… Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1992 (European university publications 1/1297, about Ludwig Tieck , Philipp Otto Runge , Clemens Brentano and others)
• The Bumblebee. Life story and work. arsEdition, Munich 1994 (about the painter Berta Hummel ).
• Thorwald Dethlefsen , reincarnation therapy and Kawwana. A contribution to the history of psychotherapy and religion. Books on Demand (BoD), Norderstedt 2004.
• Andrew Cohen - philosopher and traveling preacher. In: Material service. 1/2005, EZW, Berlin 2005, pp. 12-17.
• Gamika, Mumia and ritual machines. Thorwald Dethlefsen on the road in 7 metropolises. In: Material service. 7/2005, EZW, Berlin 2005, pp. 259–265.
• Celtic cult circle and places of power. Fritz Fenzl's Mühltal tours. In: Material service. 9/2005, EZW, Berlin 2005, pp. 335-340.
• "I was looking for new ways and found very old ones ..." The esotericist, therapist and magician Thorwald Dethlefsen. In: Gnostika. 30/2005, AAGW, Sinzheim 2005, pp. 39-49.
• Any questions? The world is saved, now a relaxed Thorwald Dethlefsen is available to the audience for "Word & Answer". In: traces. 76/2005, traces, Winterthur 2005, pp. 48–49.

Web links

• Literature by and about Angelika Koller in the catalog of the German National Library