Beryl Bainbridge

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Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge , DBE (born November 21, 1932 in Liverpool , † July 2, 2010 in London ) was a British writer and actress . She became widely known through her historical novels .

life and work

Bainbridge grew up in the working class near Liverpool. As a child, she planned to become a writer and was encouraged by her parents - her father introduced her to the work of Charles Dickens , her mother the theater. At the age of six she first appeared in public as a tap dancer and then received ballet training , and at fifteen she joined a theater group for the first time as an actress. In 1954 she married the painter Austin Davies, with whom she had three children. In 1959 the marriage was divorced again; it was during this time that Bainbridge began to write.

After studying at the Merchant Taylors' School in Liverpool, she worked as an actress at the Liverpool Repertory Theater . Although she wrote her first novel, Harriet Said , in the 1950s, it wasn't printed until 1972. In 2000 Queen Elizabeth II appointed her Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and thus raised her to the nobility. She last lived in north London, where she died in 2010 after a brief period of cancer.

Bainbridge's novels are often set in post-war Liverpool and deal with the fate of working-class families. Some of them are autobiographical . In contrast, Young Adolf deals with a fictional visit by young Hitler to his brother in Liverpool in 1910; Watson's Apology is set in 1872 and describes the final years of a retired school principal who killed his wife. Critics particularly praised Bainbridge's characterization and comedy. In addition to novels, she also wrote short stories and non-fiction. In German-speaking countries, her works never achieved the same popularity as in Great Britain.

The British songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler gave her a musical memorial on his 2015 album Tracker with the song Beryl .

Awards

Works

  • 1967 A Weekend with Claude (novel)
  • 1968 Another Part of the Wood (novel)
  • 1972 Harriet Said ... (novel)
  • 1973 The Dressmaker (US title: The Secret Glass ) (Roman)
  • 1974 The Bottle Factory Outing (novel)
    • The flight; German by Peter Kleinhempel; Berlin (GDR): Verlag Volk und Welt 1979.
  • 1975 Sweet William (novel)
  • 1976 A Quiet Life (novel)
  • 1977 Injury Time (novel)
  • 1978 Young Adolf (novel)
  • 1979 Another Part of the Wood (novel / revised version)
  • 1980 Winter Garden (novel)
  • 1981 A Weekend with Claude (novel / revised version)
  • 1984 English Journey: Or the Road to Milton Keynes (travel report)
  • 1984 Watson's Apology (novel)
  • 1987 Forever England: North and South (family portraits)
  • 1989 An Awfully Big Adventure (novel)
    • A factual romance, German by Wolfdietrich Müller; Düsseldorf: ECON 1995. ISBN 3-612-27203-9
  • 1991 The Birthday Boys (novel)
  • 1993 Something Happened Yesterday (newspaper article collection)
  • 1996 Every Man for Himself (novel)
  • 1998 Master Georgie (novel)
    • Master Georgie, German from Charlotte Breuer; Munich, Vienna: Europa 1999. ISBN 3-203-75506-8
  • 2001 According to Queeney (novel)
  • 2005 Front Row - Evenings at the Theater: Pieces from the Oldie (theater essays and reviews)
  • 2008 The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress (Roman)

literature

  • Brandan King: Beryl Bainbridge: love by all sorts of means - a biography , London: Bloomsbury 2016, ISBN 978-1-4729-0853-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b One of the best: Author Dame Beryl Bainbridge dies of cancer, aged 77 (scotsman.com) , viewed August 4, 2010
  2. ^ A b Paul Schlueter / June Schlueter (eds.): An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers , Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick / London (1998), p. 26f.
  3. ↑ English author Beryl Bainbridge died (focus.de) , seen on August 4, 2010
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
personal data
SURNAME Bainbridge, Beryl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bainbridge, Beryl Margaret (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 2010
Place of death London