Anne Birk

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Anne Birk (actually: Rosemarie Tietz , née Schumacher ) (born August 20, 1942 in Trossingen ; † July 29, 2009 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German writer.

Anne Birk at the presentation of her work 'Examen 68' (2008)

Life

Rosemarie Schumacher was the daughter of an elementary school teacher and grew up in Tuttlingen . She studied German and English and became a high school teacher in Esslingen am Neckar , where she lived from 1969 until her death. Around 1980 she also began her writing activity. She was a member of the jury in the Art Foundation and on the board of the Association of German Writers in Baden-Württemberg and one of the co-founders of the initiative for writing women in Baden-Württemberg. She chose her mother's maiden name as a pseudonym.

Her husband Gerold Tietz was also a writer. The couple were childless; Gerold Tietz died just a few days before his wife on July 24, 2009.

Works

Anne Birk wrote the trilogy on German history Asters im Frost (1999), White spots on the wall (2000) and Scherbengericht (2002). The locations of Trossingen and Tuttlingen are in the books that z. Partly based on the memories of their mother's youth and childhood, camouflaged. In addition, the novel Carlos, or Damages Foreseen in our prosperous provinces, appeared . The novel No Wonder was no longer published in her lifetime.

In addition to these novels, Anne Birk wrote, among other things, the play nest pollution and published unreasonable demands - women and a paragraph . This book deals with compulsory counseling according to Paragraph 218 .

Birk's works also include the stories The Prime Minister , Bernie's Recovery , The Next Time I'll Bring Roses or Why Descartes Refuses to Bath His Mother, and Exam 68 . The latter is about student life in Tübingen in the 1960s.

Posthumously published stories Four short stories / Four short stories (2012).

Trivia

Counting back ten generations, Anne Birk is related to Barack Obama .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne Birk has died ( Memento from August 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Stuttgarter Zeitung from July 31, 2009
  2. ↑ Author website
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated July 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nrwz.de
personal data
SURNAME Birk, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tietz, Rosemarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Trossingen
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 2009
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar