Barbara Ming

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Barbara Ming (* 18th May 1946 as Barbara Neuss in Dusseldorf ) is a German writer .

Life

Barbara Ming writes poetry and short story miniatures as well as satires and works as a freelance journalist and author .

She had her first publication at the age of 17 in the Protestant church newspaper "Der Weg". In the 68s she read at the action poets and denied u. a. the reading one of the legendary " Sassafras -Lesungen" in Dusseldorf . At that time she published under the name Barbara Mandok. In 1974 she was awarded the State Capital's Prize for Literature by the City of Düsseldorf . In 1991 she received the Hafiz Prize of the Persian Literature Club and in 2000 the Poetry Prize of the Freundeskreis Düsseldorfer Buch (FDB). In 2003, she was awarded the City of Ratingen 's Women's Culture Prize. In the same year it was included in the women's culture archive of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.

Since 1975 she has been a member of the Association of German Writers and since 1999 she has headed the ERA e. V., a writers' association of authors from the Cologne / Düsseldorf / Essen area , which she joined as a member in 1988. For the ERA e. V. publishes an anthology every two years , most recently “Expedition zum Wortpol” (2014).

Numerous publications, u. a. in the "Horen", "Every kind" and "Neues Rheinland", "Düsseldorfer Hefte", "fiftyfifty", "Deutsches Ärzteblatt" and in anthologies , most recently "in the back light" Langenberger Texte 4, Athena-Verlag Oberhausen (2003), " Pink - 10 "- anthology of the group" Reading in the Atelier "( self-published ), Engelsdorfer Verlag (2008) and in the edition Landpresse" An Deutschland Gedenk "- Poetry on the state of the country (2009), as well as" Love and other inconsistencies "- Poems, edition exemplum by Athena-Verlag Oberhausen (2013).

Barbara Ming lives in Ratingen together with the writer Ulrich Scharfenorth .

Awards

Works

  • Symbol , magazine for art and literature, edited by Wolfgang Wangler (limited single edition 1973 in collaboration with the Bochum Art Museum)
  • Bergische Taschenliteratur No. 49 (Ed. Kulturamt Kreis Mettmann)
  • Coffee sets - poems (with drawings on poured coffee by the Ratinger artist Roswitha Riebe-Beicht and a foreword by Eva Zeller), Arachne Verlag, Gelsenkirchen, 2006
  • Bernsteinbeißer - Narrative miniatures and satires, Arachne Verlag, Gelsenkirchen, 2008
  • Time of the grasshoppers - The life story of a boatpeople child (together with the author Ly My Cuong), Heiner Labonde Verlag, Grevenbroich, 2010
  • tollhauskirsch - poems (with etchings by Roswitha Riebe-Beicht and a foreword by Nora-Eugenie Gomringer ), Arachne Verlag, Gelsenkirchen, 2010
  • fallambula - Narrative miniatures and satires, Arachne Verlag, Gelsenkirchen (2012)
  • is your name Humboldt? - Poems (with a foreword by Margot Schroeder ), Arachne Verlag, Gelsenkirchen (2014)

Web links

Literature by and about Barbara Ming in the catalog of the German National Library, in the directory of authors in NRW and in the women's culture archive of Heinrich Heine University

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Ming. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 703, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  2. ↑ Barbara Ming in: Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
personal data
SURNAME Ming, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, author
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf