Bärbel Reetz

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Bärbel Reetz (born July 30, 1942 in Hameln ) is a German writer .

Life and work

Bärbel Hanna Ruth Reetz, b. Scheffler was born on July 30, 1942 in Hameln an der Weser , where she grew up and went to school. In 1950 she contracted polio , a profound physical and psychological experience.

After graduating from high school and studying, Bärbel Reetz worked as a teacher and continued her freelance work as a literature and theater reviewer, which she had started at the end of her school days. In the 1980s she began to publish poetry and short prose in magazines and anthologies (including Jahrbuch der Lyrik , Reclam ).

Since 1992 her work has also appeared in individual editions. Some have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Slovak.

Since 1993 conception and implementation of word & music projects, as well as cooperation with visual artists, etc. a. with Barbara Brandhorst in the exhibition project Schattenspiegel (Lübeck 1997 / Reykjavik 1999).

From 1997 to 2006 she was a jury member of the Detlev von Liliencron Poetics Lecturer at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Bärbel Reetz is married and has two sons. She lives in Berlin.

Works

Single issues

  • Zugvogelfrau - Poems (Frankfurt am Main 1992).
  • Emmy Ball-Hennings. Life in Maybe - Biography (Frankfurt am Main 2001).
  • Jump in time - narration (Frankfurt am Main 2002).
  • Submerged - Short Stories (Frankfurt am Main 2004).
  • The Russian patient - Roman (Frankfurt am Main 2006).
  • Lenin's Sisters - Roman (Frankfurt am Main 2008).
  • Hesse's women - biography. (Berlin 2012).
  • Paradise was for us. Emmy Ball Hennings and Hugo Ball. - Biography. (Berlin 2015).

Texts in anthologies (selection)

  • The beach runner , in: Love without masks . (Frankfurt / Munich 1993).
  • Virginia or simultaneity , in: Voices of Tomorrow (Munich 1994).
  • Einspänner , in love stories. A reader. (Frankfurt a. M. 2004).
  • Je suis là. Pardon. “- Emmy Hennings et Dada-Zurich , in: Dada circuit total . (Lausanne 2005).
  • Double , in: girlfriends, enemies. Women stories. (Frankfurt a. M. 2007).
  • Madonna mosaic - alphabetically , in: Madonna and Us. (Frankfurt a. M. 2008).
  • Closed at Christmas : December 24th. (Berlin 2011).
  • Snow down to the depths , in: Christmas in the Alps . (Berlin 2013).
  • From the country to the country! in: Summer excursions. The most beautiful stories of driving away. (Berlin 2013).
  • Next year with us , in: This time with us . (Berlin 2014).
  • Engelchen , in: Alles tinsel . New Christmas stories. (Berlin 2015).
  • Goose without flowers , in: The cat under the Christmas tree . (Berlin 2017).

Editions

  • Hermann Hesse. Correspondence 1921–1927 with Hugo Ball and Emmy Ball-Hennings. Edited and commented by Bärbel Reetz. (Frankfurt 2003).
  • Emmy Ball-Hennings and Hugo Ball. Tightrope walkers still in the dark . Poems, letters and drawings selected and provided with a foreword by Bärbel Reetz (in preparation).

Word and music projects (selection)

  • 1993 Two events on Johannes Brahms / Klaus Groth / Hans Olde the Elder. Ä. (Hans Kock Foundation Kiel).
  • 1994 Six events on Detlev von Liliencron (Hans Kock Foundation Kiel).
  • 1995 Six events on Friedrich Nietzsche (Hans Kock Foundation Kiel).
  • 1996 Sea - Myth - and more . Lyrical interlude on board STS Sedov (Kiel).
  • 1997 Detlev Liliencron - champion of the world. (Kulturviertel, Kiel).
  • 1999 "I have never felt my existence so much". The Weimar Musenhof discovers Arcadia. In collaboration with Heide Hollmer. Musical direction: Cord Garben. (Castle of Kiel).

theatre

  • 1999 Emmy 1 - 2 - 3 (Pilkentafel theater workshop, Flensburg).
  • 2016 Die Balls (evenTheater, Zurich).

Awards

Her work and research were funded by the Pro Helvetia Foundation , among others .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Yearbook of Poetry 1979 - 2011 Yearbook of Poetry 1979 - 2011
  2. ^ Literaturhaus Schleswig-Holstein, authors SH, Reetz, Bärbel Literaturhaus Schleswig-Holstein, authors SH, Reetz, Bärbel
  3. a b c d e f g Publications by Bärbel Reetz - Suhrkamp Insel Authors Author details Author page of the Suhrkamp Verlag.
  4. Tagesspiegel article on "Paradise was for us. Hugo Ball and Emmy Ball-Hennings.
  5. Bettina von Arnim Prize in the Books Wiki Bettina von Arnim Prize in the Books Wiki