Brigitte Meng

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Brigitte Meng (born February 19, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main ; died November 29, 1998 in Zurich ) was a Swiss writer and poet.

Life

The daughter of the art historian Mathilde Meng-Koehler and the psychoanalyst Heinrich Meng had to emigrate with her parents to Switzerland after the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933. In 1937 his father was given a position as a lecturer and in 1945 a professorship for mental hygiene at the University of Basel .

Meng mainly wrote poetry, in 1968 she and other authors were invited by Karl Schmid to read to students at the ETH Zurich . In the 1960s, Meng also tried plays that linked to the theater of the absurd . She had a poetically productive connection with Renato Arlati . Poems by her were included in his song cycles by Arthur Furer . Meng wrote an autobiographical novel.

Works

  • Attempt to transform a dead butterfly into a living one , Klagenfurt: Röschnar, 1993
  • Not intended for anyone's head , Klagenfurt: Röschnar, 1990
  • The black room: an autobiographical novel , Zurich: Leu, 1989
  • Under the mask: Poems , Klagenfurt: Röschnar, 1988
  • The express letter: a tragic comedy in two scenes , 1980
  • A thimble full of loneliness: Poems and texts , Darmstadt: Bläschke, 1978
  • The fish are my brothers: poems and lyric prose , Muttenz: Sankt-Arbogast-Verlag, 1980
  • Die Rabenfeder , Zurich: Verl. The Rainbow Series, 1970
  • The neon writing, poems . Rainbow series, Zurich, 1967
  • Do you feel the shadow ?: Poems , Basel: Pharos Verl., 1966
  • A timetable is no longer right : drama in one act 1964

Settings

  • Vocal music for unbroken voices by Arthur Furer , 2000
  • 3 sketches: for voice and 7 instruments : based on texts by Peter Lehner and Brigitte Meng by Arthur Furer, 1980
  • Doubtful es: for high voice and piano , by Arthur Furer, 1967–1984. Arthur Furer at musinfo
  • Today I'm cleaning the fairytale crown , Immanuel Kammerer, Zurich: Hug & Co., 1961, choir part.

literature

  • Manfred Gsteiger (Hrsg.): The contemporary literatures of Switzerland . Kindler, Zurich 1974, ISBN 3-463-22004-0
  • Heinrich Meng: Life as an encounter . Hippokrates-Verlag, Stuttgart 1971 ISBN 3-7773-0288-0
  • Renate Neumann, Sonia Nowoselsky: Writing for the theater: about contemporary German-speaking women playwrights . Signs and Traces, Frauenliteraturverlag, Bremen 1986
  • Dittker Slark: Brigitte Meng on her 50th birthday . Volume 5 of Das Kleeblatt. Publishing house D. Slark, Darmstadt 1982
  • Barbara Traber: "It's difficult to live in a glass prison". On the death of Barbara Meng on November 29, 1998 , in: Orte, 1999, pp. 60f.
  • Werner Wüthrich: Brigitte Meng . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1227 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathilde Fahrenkamp, ​​b. Köhler, art historian: Mathilde Meng-Koehler: The pictures of Konrad Witz and their sources: Legenda aurea, Speculum humanae salvationis, Bible , Basel: Holbein-Verl., 1947 DNB
  2. ↑ A timetable is no longer correct . Mentioned by: Manfred Gsteiger, Manfred [Hrsg.]: The contemporary literatures of Switzerland , p. 370
  3. ↑ Arthur Furer in MGG , Vol. 7, p. 277
personal data
SURNAME Meng, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1998
Place of death Zurich