Beatrix Langner

Beatrix Langner in Halberstadt 2013

Beatrix Katharina Langner (born July 2, 1950 in Berlin ) is a German literary scholar , critic and writer .

life and work

Beatrix Langner grew up in the Rhineland and moved to the GDR with her parents in 1964 . After studying German and English at the Humboldt University in Berlin , she completed her doctorate in 1982. phil. from. Her dissertation deals with the structure and function of narrative forms in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre .

She has been working as a freelance writer since 1988. Since then she has published numerous literary, theater and film reviews and features for print media, among others. a. Berliner Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung and Neue Zürcher Zeitung , as well as essays, literary features and audio pieces (at times under the pseudonym Katharina Roesmer) for radio, etc. a. Deutschlandradio and Deutschlandfunk . In addition to the literature of the 18th century and the European Enlightenment, interdisciplinary aspects of the convergence between the arts and sciences and between nature and history form a focus of her writing and thinking.

Beatrix Langner is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Fonts

As an author

• Holderlin and Diotima . Biography . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-458-34416-0 .
• The wild European. Adelbert von Chamisso . Biography. Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88221-889-3 .
• Mark Brandenburg . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-38089-7 .
• Jean Paul , master of the second world. Biography. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-63817-6 .
• Shäkspears suitcase (text and idea, using quotations from Goethe), artist's book, design and production by Christian Ewald, Katzengraben-Presse , Berlin 2013
• The 7 Biggest Misconceptions About Women Who Think. Essay. Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95757-337-7 .
• Toads. A portrait . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-546-3 .

As editor

• Jean Paul : Life of the cheerful schoolmaster Maria Wutz . With an afterword by Beatrix Langner, Ein Festtag der Poesie or Seven Steps, Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63828-2 .
• Johannes Kepler : The dream or: moon astronomy. Sommnium sive astronomia lunaris with a guide for lunar travelers , with an essay by Beatrix Langner. Das Kugelspiel, Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88221-626-4 .

Radio plays (selection)

• The blue bird , after Maurice Maeterlinck , voice of the GDR 1977.
• Gäpfel Kerns Abenteuer (literary work, 6 parts based on OJ Bierbaum ) broadcasting of the GDR 1978
• Ivan the Fool (after LN Tolstoy ), voice of the GDR 1979.
• The new Melusine (literature based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) broadcast of the GDR 1981.
• Schiller. Monologue. German size. 1997 ( "L. Der Literaturbote" 94/2009)

Features / radio essays (selection)

• About the schism of reason. Half the emancipation of literature in the GDR, radio essay, Deutschlandsender Kultur 1990
• The voice of reconciliation. The literary estate of Johannes Bobrowski in the German Literature Archive Marbach, Deutschlandsender Kultur 1991
• The Wolpryla Connection. Something about the GDR language community, radio essay, Deutschlandsender Kultur 1993
• It is what it is. Homage to Erich Fried , Deutschlandsender Kultur 1993, 55 min
• Dance of the executioner's words. José FA Oliver , poet and guest in Germany, Deutschlandradio 1994, 55 min
• The language afterwards. I. Mistrusting your own voice - The German language crisis after 1945, II. Wende language or language transition - Germans on their way to multilingualism, Deutschlandradio 1995
• Heart or hedgehog. Günter Eich's Endspiele der Moderne, radio essay using texts by Günter Eich and Jacques Derrida , Deutschlandradio 1995
• Antigone 1948 or Love for the Falling. A feature in seven pictures (With original sound excerpts by Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel , music: Hanns Eisler , Seven ways to describe the rain) Deutschlandradio 1998
• It's winter in my soul now. Ludwig Wittgenstein's return to Austrian literature. Using the private diaries 1930/31 and 1936/37, Deutschlandradio 1999
• Friends under the old moon. Arnold Zweig and the Art Academy of the GDR , Deutschlandradio 2002
• Chronicle of the little downfalls. From Alfred Polgar's sketchbooks , Deutschlandradio 2006

Individual publications in anthologies (selection)

• The name of the flower. Schiller's tragedy “The Bride of Messina” as a dramaturgy of historical reason, in: Otto Dann, N. Oellers, E. Osterkamp (ed.): Schiller als Historiker . Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-476-01333-2 .
• Post-mortem somersault. Christa Wolf and Volker Braun - two belated classics of GDR literature, in: Heinz Ludwig Arnold : text + kritik . Special volume: GDR literature of the nineties, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-88377-642-2 .
• In the province or Beeskow is not as bad as it sounds. In: Ina Hartwig (Hrsg.): Course book 153 Literature - Operation and Passion . Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-87134-153-3 .
• Half earth dumpling, half heavenly leaseholder, the universal poet Ulrich Holbein , In: Am Erker, magazine for literature . 61/2011, Daedalus Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-89126-561-1 .
• Migrants against giants. Or: How does the third nature actually speak, in: Third Nature, 02 / 1.2020, Ed. Steffen Richter, Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 2020, pp. 143–157, ISBN 978-3-95757-538-8

Awards

• 1990/91: Working grant from the Thyssen Foundation, Deutsche Schillergesellschaft Marbach aN
• 2003: Literature grant from the state of Brandenburg
• 2013: Gleim Literature Prize Halberstadt
• 2017: Residence grant from the Villa Decius Krakow association

Web links

• Literature by and about Beatrix Langner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Beatrix Langner at Matthes & Seitz Berlin
• Reviews of the works of Beatrix Langner at Perlentaucher.de
• Beatrix Langner on "The 7 Biggest Mistakes About Women Who Think" at Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FAZ July 17, 2002 by Walter Hinck, https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensions/belletristik/rezension-belletristik-jetzt-gehoeren-sie-haben-an-169630.html
2. ↑ Michaela Schmitz: Review of the biography "The wild European: Adelbert von Chamisso" on Deutschlandfunk from February 17, 2009.
3. ↑ Der Standard Wien, September 28, 2012 by Adelbert Reif, https://www.pressreader.com/austria/der-standard/20120929/282394101662656
4. ↑ Büchermarkt, Deutschlandfunk Köln March 25, 2013, by Joachim Büthe, https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ambivalenzen-eines-scharfen-beobachters.700.de.html?dram:article_id=241638
5. ↑ Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Shäkespeares suitcase | Katzengraben press. Accessed January 31, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Behind the honey mask. Accessed January 31, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Those who are at the bottom have few friends. Accessed January 31, 2020 .