Brigitte Beil

Brigitte Beil (born April 8, 1941 in Münster ; † July 3, 2016 in Munich ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Brigitte Beil grew up as the second of three daughters of the sculptor Hilde Schürk-Frisch in Münster. After graduating from high school, she studied literature , philosophy and journalism in Freiburg, Vienna, Munich and Münster. She finished her studies with a doctorate on the preliminary form of the psychological novel.

Brigitte Beil began her professional career in Munich as a freelancer for Bayerischer Rundfunk . She has also written for magazines such as Freund , Cosmopolitan , Elan , Top Business and Novum . During a break from children for several years, she worked in social institutions and organizations, including as an assistant in kindergarten.

In the last year of her life, Brigitte Beil was committed to helping refugees in Germany. In the anthology The Hope in Your Luggage , created in collaboration with the REFUGIO development association , in which well-known authors describe the fate of refugees they met, she tells the story of Muhammad Dahalan, who was born in Syria in 1970. She also gave lectures on the subject of refugees. In the program Das interkulturelle Magazin des Bayerischen Rundfunks she said about her encounter with Muhammed Dahalans:

"I find it very moving when you suddenly speak to a single person and see how he reacts and his facial expression changes and his voice changes when he talks about it."

Most recently, despite a serious illness, she had founded a writing workshop for literary hopefuls in Munich- Schwabing . In the writing workshop, children are invited to learn through play how they can create their own world with words.

Brigitte Beil was married to a Munich lawyer and had a son and a daughter.

Works

After working for Bayerischer Rundfunk and after a long break with children, Brigitte Beil first wrote a number of non-fiction books on psychological-educational topics, starting in 1995 with the educational book Pubertät? No need to panic - a book for daughters, sons, mothers and fathers that she wrote together with Cornelia Nitsch and Cornelia von Schelling. Her last non-fiction book, co-authored with Cornelia Nitsch in 2007, was titled I give you both hands, siblings - happy whoever has them . Several of her non-fiction books have been translated into different languages.

From 2003 Brigitte Beil devoted herself to writing novels. Her first novel Maskal or The End of the Rainy Season was published in 2003. It describes the story of the family of the Berlin architect Carl Haertel , who moved from Germany to Abyssinia during the colonial days. Carl Haertel was brought to the imperial court by Haile Selassie as a master builder in order to create European progress. The novel is embedded in the description of life from 1900 in what is now Ethiopia. You get to know a country and its emperor and are able to see the problems that were the order of the day there due to world politics, colonial rule and economic conditions.

"This novel successfully combines the description of social conditions and real history around 1900 with entertaining literature."

In the novel, essential basic elements of the other works of Brigitte Beil are already evident, on the one hand the vivid description of human fates, ways of life and thought patterns of past epochs based on intensive study of sources, on the other hand the compassionate examination of the otherness of people, their alienation and the reaction of the Environment to the other, the foreign. This becomes particularly clear in her second novel Eiswinter . which tells of the love of two people who have to fight against prejudice, envy and greed. The novel is based on a true story that leads to Schleswig-Holstein in the 17th century . Gesche Radeleff, a bourgeois daughter, meets and falls in love with Christian Gottlieb, the Duke's colored trumpeter. But her family opposes this relationship. Despite all odds, their love gets a chance. The novel paints a vivid picture of everyday life in the 17th century.

Her novel A Letter from England followed in 2013 . In her last novel So Peaceful, the Sea , Brigitte Beil dedicated herself to the subject of jealousy "in a charming, feather-light, but sometimes rather profound way."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituaries / Brigitte Beil. Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 9, 2016, accessed on July 11, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Vita Brigitte Beil. randomhouse.de, accessed on July 11, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Friedrich Ani, Doris Dörre, Brigitte Beil a. a .: The hope in the luggage, encounters with refugees . Ed .: Cornelia von Schelling, Andrea Stickel. Allitera, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-803-9 , p. 175 .
4. ↑ Encounter with refugees "The hope in my luggage". br.de, November 20, 2015, archived from the original on December 16, 2015 ; accessed on September 27, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Escape Stories: The Hope in Your Luggage. (No longer available online.) Readlive.de, November 20, 2015, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 27, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Encounter with refugees “The hope in my luggage”. br.de, November 20, 2015, archived from the original on December 16, 2015 ; accessed on September 27, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Brigitte Beil died. PressReader.com, Evening Newspaper, July 8, 2016, accessed November 27, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Trial days in the writing workshop for children. (No longer available online.) Http://himbeer-magazin.de/ , November 27, 2015, archived from the original on September 27, 2016 ; accessed on November 27, 2016 . 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.  
9. ↑ Beil, Brigitte; Nitsch, Cornelia; Schelling, Cornelia: Puberty? Don't panic . Mosaik-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-576-10455-0 , p. 255 .
10. ↑ Beil, Brigitte; Nitsch, Cornelia: I give you both hands, siblings - happy who has them . Mosaik-Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-16886-6 , p. 175 .
11. ^ Author Brigitte Beil, Reviews. lovely.books.de, accessed on August 19, 2016 . 
12. ^ Epochs »Absolutism and Enlightenment» Beil, Brigitte. Histo-couch.de, accessed on July 11, 2016 . 
13. ^ Daniela Loisl: Category: 1600 - 1750 Baroque, Ice Winter (Brigitte Beil). Literature portal Reader World, accessed on July 11, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Brigitte Beil: A letter from England . btb Verlag (TB), Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-442-74572-2 , p. 284 .
15. ↑ Brigitte Beil: So peaceful, the sea . btb Verlag (TB), Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-74727-6 , pp. 350 .
16. ↑ Sandra Krause: SO PEACEFUL, THE SEA / BRIGITTE BEIL. BücherKaffee.de, February 28, 2016, accessed on July 11, 2016 .