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Asta Scheib (2004)

Asta Scheib (born July 27, 1939 in Bergneustadt ) is a German writer , screenwriter and editor.

Life

Asta Agnes Scheib grew up in the Bergisches Land and wrote her first texts during her training as a textile engineer, but after her marriage and the birth of her children she concentrated entirely on writing, initially writing stories and reports for magazines and daily newspapers and then working as a permanent magazine editor (including with Brigitte and parents ) worked.

Her short story Langsame Tage was filmed in 1974 by Rainer Werner Fassbinder for WDR under the title Angst vor der Angst .

She moved to Munich, where she still lives today. She wrote numerous portraits for the literary section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , for example about Brigitte Kronauer and Thomas Bernhard . In 1981 she became a member of the VS , and in 1986 of the PEN Center Germany . From 1987 to 1989 she was chairwoman of VS Bayern and broadcasting councilor .

In addition to her novels and fictional biographies, she published screenplays, essays, non-fiction books and poems.

Asta Scheib volunteers as an ambassador for the Children's Health Foundation .

Prizes and awards

Fictional biographies

Asta Scheib is best known for her novel biographies, in which women are the focus. In 1993, in Schutz mein Herz vor Liebe , she created a portrait of a Jew who was able to hide from the National Socialists during the war in Bavaria, and in An ornament in her house she wrote about Ottilie von Faber, the sole heir to the Faber-Castell pencil factory -Castell. Her biography novels about Katharina von Bora and Lena Christ became bestsellers .

In the gardens of the heart. The passion of Lena Christ

Bust of Lena Christ at the town hall in Glonn
Asta Scheib wrote a novel biography about Katharina von Bora

The novel is the sensitively written biography of a talented peasant girl from Glonn , born out of wedlock in 1881 , who had a terrible youth and who nevertheless managed to become a successful writer. At 19, this unusual woman married an alcoholic, had six children in eight years, and was exploited in her second marriage to writer Peter Jerusalem. She separated from him, fell ill with tuberculosis , had financial problems, desperate at the impending jail sentence for attempted fraud, and was ultimately driven to suicide in 1920. The author has meticulously researched Lena Christ's life with the help of contemporary witnesses, bequests and books . "With the reassessment of the ambivalent role of Jerusalem - Asta Scheib has shed new light on the life and death of Lena Christ and at the same time has given us a piece of the living history of Munich."

Children of disobedience. The love story of Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora

In this novel, the story of the 1525 closed marriage between the former monk Martin Luther and his wife, along with several other nuns from the convent Nimbschen in Grimma runaway Katharina von Bora told. This event shocked and outraged the church world at that time. Life in the 16th century is also vividly portrayed. The author writes about the genesis of this book: “As a Catholic, I have always been very interested in Luther. Read extensive books about him. And it bothered, even annoyed me, that there was absolutely no evidence of his time about Katharina von Bora, his wife. That's when I started researching. In the early eighties in what was then the GDR. An exciting time. I found a lot of help and friendliness in Wittenberg and the other places, so that I was finally able to collect some material. "

Other important works

Numerous other novels by Scheib were also successful and were extensively reviewed several times in national daily newspapers. In The Oyster Man, the author writes for the first time from the point of view of a man who leaves his wife overnight. The cause lies in the inability of the protagonist to communicate his feelings and thoughts, he is like an oyster that has closed itself off from the outside world. Flashbacks reveal the reasons for the silence. A literary encyclopedia judges the novelist that she presents herself “as a vividly descriptive entertainment writer with socially critical, especially emancipatory approaches, which she, however, often devalues ​​through the use of content clichés and linguistic inadequacies.” Her novel Frost and Sonne (2007) is a moral portrait of the last years of the Romanov dynasty and what was then Saint Petersburg . The most beautiful thing I saw (2009) is a novel about the painter Giovanni Segantini .

Quote

  • “The last days of October were already cool, and Ottilie was glad to be able to take a bath in the cozy hotel afterwards. She was looking forward to the wave pool swing that had been placed in her bathroom. An absolute novelty that the house had in store for its guests. The chambermaid had told Ottilie that there had been trouble with the wave swing because some older people had not found out. That is why they started offering them only to young guests. Ottilie was delighted. The tub resembled a cradle, was filled with fragrant lavender water, and you could swing comfortably in it, the water flowing around you warm. "

Publications

Books

English translation: Children of disobedience. The love story of Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora . Crossroad, New York 2000, ISBN 0-8245-1695-8
  • Poor Nanosh. Detective novel. Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 1989.
  • Your, my, our children. The second attempt at happiness. Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1989.
  • Your truly careful father. Letters to children. Edited with Gertraud Middelhauve. Middelhauve, Cologne and Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-7876-9265-7 .
  • This side of the moon. Novel. List, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-471-78746-1 .
  • The second attempt at happiness. Risk and chance of the stepfamily. Ehrenwirth, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-431-02930-2 .
  • Children of disobedience. A Lovestory. Nymphenburger, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-485-00496-0 .
  • Heavy rider. Novel. Nymphenburger, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-485-00433-2 .
  • Slow days. Novel. Nymphenburger, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-485-00410-3 .

Scripts

literature

  • Sabine Brandt: There are always wounds. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from June 4, 2004
  • Ruth Spietschka: Scheib, Asta Agnes. In: Handbook of contemporary German-language literature since 1945 . Nymphenburger, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-485-03550-5 .
  • Gabriele Thlon: An ornament in your home. 2001. In: lettern.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Giesler: The Passion of Lena Christ ( Memento from November 8, 2002 in the Internet Archive ). In: Literature + Bookmarks ( BR ); Broadcast on September 15, 2002
  2. ↑ Asta Scheib: Me, about myself. Website of the author; Retrieved June 30, 2003
  3. ↑ Be glad you're alive. z. B. in the SZ of May 25, 2001, in the FAZ of January 19, 2001 and in the taz of May 22, 2001
  4. ↑ Handbook of contemporary German literature since 1945. Munich 1990; P. 554.
  5. ↑ Quoted from: An ornament in your home. The story of Ottilie von Faber-Castell. Wunderlich, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998
personal data
SURNAME Disk, Asta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheib, Asta Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, editor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergneustadt