Brigitte Fokuhl

Brigitte Fokuhl , née Peters (born June 21, 1940 in Lübeck ), is a German author who mainly publishes in Low German .

Life

Fokuhl grew up in her hometown Lübeck, where she still lives today. After finishing school, she worked as a clerk in the Hanseatic city . She only began writing poems and short stories in Low German only at the age of 50. Since 1999, glosses by her have appeared regularly in the Lübecker Nachrichten . Several of her stories have been published in books by the Quickborn and Wachholtz publishers. She organizes readings by authors all over Schleswig-Holstein , where she sings Low German songs with the audience if requested and accompanies them herself on the accordion . She is also a co-designer of Low German church devotions in the Lübeck area .

Brigitte Fokuhl is married and has two children.

Awards

Fokuhl took part several times in the Low German Vertell writing competition held annually by NDR , Radio Bremen and the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .

Works (excerpts)

• Dat Pure Swien - The clean pig by Jan Mogensen , translated by Brigitte Fokuhl, (Pixi Book No. 1063 - Series 125), Carlsen Verlag , Hamburg 2000
• Grew up in Lübeck in the 1940s and 50s , Wartberg Verlag , Gudensberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8313-1924-4
• Tiet wants to raise happiness. Fruunslüüd vertellt ed. Heike Thode-Scheel , Quickborn-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-87651-287-7
• Low German dorch de Jahrestieden , Ed. Heike Thode-Scheel, Quickborn-Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-87651-371-3
• Born 40 - Get the feeling back! , Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8313-2840-6
• Lübeck - Stories and anecdotes: “That's dignified!” , Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8313-2432-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Brigitte Fokuhl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Brigitte Fokuhl in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Brigitte Fokuhl at "Wartberg Verlag"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brigitte Fokuhl at "Wartberg Verlag"