Barbara Dobrick

Barbara Dobrick (born June 11, 1951 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist , literary critic and writer.

Career

Dobrick grew up in Hamburg and has lived in Burg on the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein since 1993 . The journalist and literary critic works for NDR , SWR and DeutschlandRadio Kultur , among others . She has written poetry, novels and non-fiction books.

Reviews

But only speak one word

Kirsten Dietrich ( Deutschlandfunk Kultur ) found Dobrick's novel “so close to an autobiography that you have to be careful not to mix it up”, especially since “the key data in the life of the main character would correspond to those” of Dobrick's biography. Dobrick's “criticism of institutionalized religion” is gaining in relevance primarily because she never betrays the “longing for the religious and for being rooted in faith and rituals” in her book.

Beate Bäumer ( Hamburger Abendblatt ) , on the other hand, saw the novel about Johanna, born in 1951, the “daughter of a convert and a ' baptismal Catholic '”, as “a book that swims with the current retro wave ”. In order to “tell a family saga”, “the story of Johanna and her clan” is “too little” from her point of view, and it is not possible to learn anything about “Catholic Hamburg in the 1950s” because “the story is itself essentially in Johanna's parents' house, on the sidewalk in front of it and in the garden behind it.

Angela Graf ( VHG ) sees Dobrick's message in the fact that the meaning of “following a belief, dying for a belief” (not just today) “should be questioned more”, “because what this attitude has caused in our history is not that long ago ”.

About loving & dying

From the point of view of Herbert A. Gornik ( Deutschlandfunk Kultur ), Dobrick's book is “finally an advisory non-fiction book in which we as relatives are relieved of our fear of guilt and failure through education; by providing information about the psychological experiences of people with cancer on the one hand, and above all by providing information about our experiences as relatives without taboos. Because being mad at the behavior of cancer patients is just as taboo as talking about impending death itself. "

Works

• When the old parents die. Herder Freiburg 2017 ISBN 978-3-451-61405-7 .
• with Arnd M. Schuppius: Föhr, Amrum, Pellworm, Nordstrand, Halligen: Travel with insider tips. M. DuMont Ostfildern 2015 ISBN 978-3-8297-2404-3 .
• Dance into May. Fischer Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978-3-596-15039-7
• Surprise on Valentine's Day. Fischer Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978-3-596-14619-2
• Fire and flame in autumn. Fischer Frankfurt am Main 2014 ISBN 978-3-596-30082-2 .
• Summer theater. Fischer Frankfurt am Main 2014 ISBN 978-3-596-30081-5 .
• Bringing light to the dark sides of dying: understanding the fears, hopes and grief of loved ones. Herder Freiburg 2013 ISBN 978-3-451-06286-5 .
• with Esther Schoonbrood: explain love to me! Feelings, body, sex; what women should talk to girls about. Goldmann Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-442-17200-9 .
• About loving and dying: conflicts, needs and hopes of loved ones. Cross Freiburg im Breisgau 2010 ISBN 978-3-7831-3497-1 .
• But only speak one word: a Catholic childhood. Orlanda Berlin 2006 ISBN 978-3-936937-37-4 .
• Farewell to the children: let go and meet again. Piper Munich 1996 ISBN 978-3-492-22305-8 .

Awards

• Wilhelmine Lübke Prize 1990 for "When Old Parents Die"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Author profile Barbara Dobrick. In: S. Fischer Verlag .
2. ^ Author profile Barbara Dobrick. In: Verlag Herder .
3. ↑ Kirsten Dietrich: No blind faith. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . April 11, 2006.
4. ↑ Beate Bäumer: Catholic childhood. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . March 13, 2007.
5. ^ Angela Graf: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History. In: VHG . Volume 92, 2006.
6. ^ Herbert A. Gornik: A painful balancing act. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . November 9, 2010.
7. ↑ When old parents die. In: New Westphalian . April 1, 2014.