Barbara Bongartz
Barbara Bongartz (born September 11, 1957 in Cologne ) is a German writer of German-French origin. She writes novels, short stories, essays, texts on the visual arts, book reviews and radio reports.
Life
Bongartz studied theater, film and television studies , German literature and philosophy in Paris, Munich and Cologne. In 1984 she obtained her master's degree from the University of Cologne . From 1982 to 1988 she worked as a freelance assistant director and director on documentaries on the visual arts.
In 1989 she did her doctorate at the Institute for Media Culture and Theater at the University of Cologne under Elmar Buck , a student of Hans Mayer .
From 1990 to 1996 Barbara Bongartz was a research assistant at the Institute for Media Culture and Theater at the University of Cologne. She began a habilitation with the working title “Film und Melancholie”, which she broke off when her first novel “Local Passions - Compilationes” was published. From 1996 she lived as a freelance writer in Düsseldorf and New York. Editions and special editions of her writings were created in collaboration with the visual artist Gisela Kleinlein . She has lived in Berlin since 2002 and, after working in Islamabad, Dushanbe and Algiers, in Brandenburg since 2019. Barbara Bongartz is married to the lawyer and diplomat Pascal Richter .
Bongartz is a member of the PEN Center Germany .
Awards and grants
- 1996: Prize for Literature from the State Capital Düsseldorf
- 1997: Scholarship from the state capital Düsseldorf
- 1997: Working grant Amsterdam
- 1999/2000: Working grant from Akademie Schloss Solitude
- 2000: Working grant at the Künstlerhaus Röderhof
- 2001: Working grant at Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop
- 2008: Passa Porta / Villa Hellebosch, Brussels
- 2009: Reading scholarship Hausach
- 2009: Nominated with pearl velvet for the hotlist (award from independent German-language publishers)
Works
- Authorship
- From Caligari to Hitler - from Hitler to Dr. Mabuse? A psychological history of German film from 1946–1960. Dissertation, Münster 1992.
- Evil possibly. Stories. Berlin 1994.
- Pieces for the heart. Stories. Düsseldorf 1995.
- One of the stories from thunder and storm. Novella. Berlin 1997.
- Local passions. Novel. Berlin 1997.
- Heartburn. Novel. Berlin 1999.
- The American cat. Novel. Stuttgart 2001.
- together with Alban Nikolai Herbst : Incest or The Origin of the World. Novel in letters. Edited by Norbert Wehr, Essen 2002.
- The dead from Passy. Novel. Berlin 2007.
- Pearl velvet. Novel. Frankfurt 2009.
- TOP model. A report. Frankfurt 2010.
- The beautiful and the rich. Novel. Weissbooks Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-86337-005-3 .
- Editing
- Pink evergreen. A florilegium. Nuremberg 2002.
literature
- Annette Brockhoff: How written kisses still reach their place ... Barbara Bongartz 'letters, edited by her “dearest friend”. In: Copybook No. 55.
- Volker Mergenthaler: “Continue writing” after September 11th - Barbara Bongartz ', Alban Nikolai Herbsts and Norbert Wehrs “Incest or the creation of the world”. In: Irsigler / Jürgensen (eds.): Nine Eleven. Aesthetic processing of September 11, 2001. Heidelberg 2008.
- Rita Fust: Manhattan: More than just a setting in German novels. Master's thesis ndl, Lippstadt 2008.
- Regina Kramer: The pictures between the lines . In: Brigitte woman 10/2009.
Web links
- Barbara Bongartz's website
- Literature by and about Barbara Bongartz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Barbara Bongartz in the collection of articles in the Innsbruck newspaper archive
- Short biography and reviews of works by Barbara Bongartz at perlentaucher.de
- Short biography and information on the work of Barbara Bongartz at Literaturport
- Reviews and reading samples of Barbara Bongartz on the website of the printing house 'Galrev
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bongartz, Barbara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Liebig, Barbara (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |