Brigitte Thurm

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Brigitte Thurm (born August 28, 1932 in Meuselwitz ) is a German writer , theater scholar and former cultural functionary.

Life

Brigitte tower was built in 1932 in Meuselwitz District Altenburg , Leipzig district born. After graduating from high school, she studied music for one year at the Thuringian State Conservatory in Erfurt, then four years of theater studies in Weimar and Leipzig. In 1969 she obtained (under her then name Redeker-Thurm) at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the section Aesthetics and Art History the academic degree “ Dr. phil. “With the dissertation A Peter Weiss - Dramatist of Transition. Investigations into the creative period from 1963 to 1967 . Her dissertation B , again at the HU Berlin, was 1985: Material of Reality and Artistic Invention. For the synthesis of fact and fiction, of document and scenic design in socialist feature films and mixed television forms .

She held academic and teaching positions at the Humboldt University and at the GDR Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg . As a cultural functionary, she was also an editor at Theater der Zeit and a member of the executive committee of the Urania - Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge . In her functions she toured the GDR and neighboring countries. Above all, she wrote essays on socialist and bourgeois drama, theater reviews and essays on film and television topics and problems. Exemplary lecture topics were: Development paths of socialist drama in the GDR and problems of culture and the socialist way of life in the propaganda work of URANIA .

She is co-author of the three-volume actor published by Karl Heinz Berger , meanwhile also author of poetry books and lives in Wandlitz near Berlin.

Verena

In a certain phase of her life, Verena's writing became "an irresistible temptation, even an inner compulsion [...] to put on paper what was felt as urgent or urgent," despite the work-related workload. The eruptive notated in a few free hours and sleep-reducing night shifts was consequently limited to the bare essentials, the "absolutely worth communicating", which resulted in a concise style that tended to be sketchy. She saw this time limit as having the advantage of "being saved from the superfluous". Claus Hammel wrote to Verena on Sunday : “The suspicion that the story is actually a costumed essay on its own account is obvious.” What Thurm lets the reader be part of is a “reflection on existence, profession and responsibility, like the artist and May haunt writers from time to time ”. He recognized the urgency of the author: "I had the impression of a text that was written very quickly, hurried by for long stretches without any design, presented pure material and hurried from one point to the next in order not to lose it, and so on."

Works

Prose and poetry

  • Verena. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1972.
  • Desire. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1972.
  • Love cannot be deceived. Novel. Scherz, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-502-11760-8 .
  • Mitigating circumstances. Mature verses about the day, about time and about love. Libri Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-8311-1965-1 .
  • Until you realize: this person is you. Unashamedly rhyming about the state of affairs, verses on love and more. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-3591-7 .
  • Unexpected outcome. Verses about time and the world. Poems about love. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 978-3-8482-6745-3 .

Theater studies essays and interviews (selection)

  • With Anneliese Große : Social irrelevance and subjectivity that can be manipulated. In: Weimar Contributions. Journal for literary studies, aesthetics and cultural theory , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar, issue 2/1970, pp. 151–181.
  • Battle for ourselves. The basic artistic task in drama and theater. In: Theater der Zeit , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin, Issue 3/1970, pp. 4–7.
  • Society, collisions, personality. Thoughts on conflict structures and genre issues in our drama. In: Theater der Zeit , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin, issue 5/1970, pp. 10–12.
  • The producer in the theater. Thoughts on structural and genre issues in our drama (II). In: Theater der Zeit , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin, issue 9/1970, pp. 8-10.
  • Theater and territory. Acting - what for and for whom? In: Theater der Zeit , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin, issue 2/1971, p. 6 f.
  • History for the present. Aspects of the historical play in the west. In: Theater der Zeit , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin, issue 4/1971, pp. 44–46.
  • Positions. West German working world in drama. In: Theater der Zeit , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin, issue 6/1971, p. 43 f.
  • Theater as a gender issue? Women in our pieces. In: Theater der Zeit , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin, issue 7/1971, pp. 4–6.
  • Partnership as a management principle. About experiences of the work with the "theater decision" of the FDGB in Magdeburg. In: Theater der Zeit , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin, issue 4/1972, p. 35 f.
  • Proposals for a popular theater. A conversation with Manfred Wekwerth. In: Theater der Zeit , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin, issue 7/1972, p. 14 f.
  • Theater of speechlessness. Old in a few new pieces from Germany and Austria. In: Theater der Zeit , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin, issue 9/1972, p. 50 f.

Theater studies book publications

  • As co-author and member of the editorial board: Acting guide in three volumes. Henschel Art and Society, Berlin 1963–1964 (revised and expanded several times up to the 6th edition 1971–1972).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thurm, Brigitte. Biography. In: thueringer-literaturrat.de. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Brigitte Böttcher (Hrsg.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Brigitte Thurm, p. 108 f .
  3. ↑ a b Claus Hammel: Verena . Novel by Brigitte Thurm, Hinstorff Verlag Rostock. In: Sunday . No. 52/1972 , December 24, 1972, literature. Reviews, p. 6 .
  4. ↑ Theater Art . In: New Germany . No. 141/1962 , May 23, 1962, Kurznachrichten, p. 6 .
  5. ^ Lifelike propaganda for our worldview. Stimulating discussions about the methods and effectiveness of popular science work . In: New Germany . No. 150/1976 , June 25, 1976, from VI. URANIA Congress in Berlin, p. 3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Thurm, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brigitte Redeker-Thurm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, theater scholar and cultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Meuselwitz