Barbara von Wulffen

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Barbara Huberta Friderike von Wulffen , b. Countess von Podewils-Juncker-Bigatto (born August 10, 1936 in Munich ) is a German author.

Life

Barbara von Wulffen is the daughter of the writer couple Clemens Graf von Podewils and Sophie Dorothee born. Freiin von Hirschberg . She spent her childhood in Bohemia. In 1945 she was expelled with her family and grew up near Weilheim in Upper Bavaria. Because of her interest in ornithology, she began studying biology in Munich, but broke it off after 6 semesters because her "already weak research urge to dry up" was drying up. Instead, she began studying German and graduated in 1961 with a doctorate on the subject of The Nature Entrance in Minnesang and Early Folk Song.

She then worked as a reviewer for children's books for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and later wrote essays on the subjects of “family” and “nature”. As a book author, she began in 1989 with the memory book Urns full of honey. Bohemia - the dawn of a new era . A short time later, in 1993, her short story book Maureen - Irish Stories was published . In 2001, her third book was Nightingales and Warblers. Published on Earthly Pleasure in Ornithology and Biology .

Barbara von Wulffen received the Günther-Klinge-Prize of the community of Gauting in 1990 and the Eichendorff-Literature Prize in 1999 . In 2002 she became the successor to the painter and sculptor Otto Herbert Hajek as chairwoman of the Adalbert Stifter Association. The Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts appointed her a full member of the Class of Arts and Art Studies in 2014.

Works

  • The natural entrance in minnesong and early folk song. Munich: Hueber 1963.
  • Between happiness and the ghetto - family contradicting the zeitgeist? Osnabrück. Religious. 1980
  • Lichtwende - precautionary obituary for nature. Osnabrück. Religious. 1985
  • Urns full of honey, Bohemia - departure into a lost time. Frankfurt a. Main: S. Fischer 1989.
  • Maureen. Irish stories. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1993.
  • Of nightingales and warblers. About the earthly pleasure in ornithology and biology. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 2001.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bayer, Thomas Georg: Ireland-literary counter-image to German society? An investigation into Heinrich Böll's Irish diary and Barbara von Wulffen's Maureen . Ettal 2009, 22.
personal data
SURNAME Wulffen, Barbara von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Podewils-Juncker-Bigatto, Barbara Huberta Friderike Countess of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich