Jayne-Ann Hedgehog

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Jayne-Ann Igel (* 18th September 1954 in Leipzig as Bernd hedgehogs ) is a German writer .

Career

Jayne-Ann Igel completed a library training and worked at the Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig. She finished studying theology from 1978 to 1982 without a degree. During this time, Igel started writing. After a series of self-published books, her first volume of poetry was published in 1989 in the series “ Poesiealbum ” by the GDR publishing house Neues Leben , still under her old name. Her official name has been Jayne-Ann Igel since sex reassignment surgery in 1990.

Jayne-Ann Igel worked from 1991 to 1993 as an administrative clerk in a parish office. From 1993 to 1994 she worked at the Leipzig Literature Office . From 1996 to 1997 she took part in a project on the history of women in the city of Dresden , after which she was a research assistant in the Dresden City Archives . Jayne-Ann Igel received various scholarships, including a. In 2000 and 2001 a working grant from the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art , in 2002 a grant from the German Literature Fund , in 2007 the Dr. Manfred Annual Fair of Honor from the German Schiller Foundation and a residency grant at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben . Since 2011 she has been co-editor of the Neue Lyrik series, which appears in the Poetenladen in cooperation with the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony .

In the state elections in Saxony in 2014 , Igel failed as a direct candidate for the party Die Linke in the constituency of Dresden 1 and as a candidate on the state list (41st place). It also failed in the state elections in Saxony in 2019 at number 55 on the state list of the party Die Linke.

Works

  • Bernd Hedgehog. (= Poetry album. 259). Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-355-00904-0 .
  • The house line gave me strange places. Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-596-22363-6 .
  • Fahrwasser: An inner biography in stages. Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-379-00635-1 .
  • with Karin Wieckhorst and Barbara Köhler : Ostberlin 1983–1986. Leipzig 1991.
  • with Una Giesecke: From Maria to Mary. Dresden 1998.
  • Attempts at resuscitation. (= Time signal ). Aschersleben 2001, ISBN 3-9807613-2-0 .
  • Prohibited removal. Basel u. a. 2004.
  • Dream watch. Basel u. a. 2006, ISBN 3-938767-03-0 .
  • Berlin facts. Basel u. a. 2009.
  • Activities. Frankfurt am Main and Weimar 2013
  • Before the light / activities. Frankfurt am Main 2014.
  • The city kept its rivers in secret , Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-936826-20-3 .
  • All light winter . Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-948107-32-1

literature

  • Ernst Jandl, Jayne-Ann Igel. Moss and a. 1991.
  • Authors in Saxony, Jayne-Ann Igel. Leipzig 1992.
  • Stefan Schulze: The magic carpet offers little space. Writers from the former GDR before, during and after the fall of the Wall: Brigitte Burmeister, Jayne-Ann Igel, Helga Königsdorf, Angela Krauss and Christa Wolf . Biographical, text-critical and literary-sociological discourses. Philosophical dissertation, Leipzig 1997.

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personal data
SURNAME Hedgehog, Jayne-Ann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Igel, Bernd (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig