Charlotte Grasnick

Charlotte Grasnick and the Peruvian poet José Pablo Quevedo after a reading in Berlin (2005)

Charlotte Grasnick (born September 26, 1939 in Berlin ; †  May 23, 2009 ibid) was a German poet who lived and worked in Berlin.

Life

Grasnick was the daughter of a university professor. She grew up in Thuringia . From 1957 to 1959 she graduated from high school and then worked as an X-ray intern .

From 1959 to 1963 she studied singing at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden . After completing her studies, she moved to Berlin, where she performed as a singer at the Komische Oper and the Rundfunkchor Berlin. Later she worked as a music teacher at a polytechnic high school . She was a member of the Writers' Union and was married to Ulrich Grasnick until her death in May 2009 . Together with him she directed the reading stage of the cultures Karlshorst and the Köpenick poet circle, the latter including Reinhard Jirgl , Michael Manzek and Benjamin Stein .

Since 1993 she has been a member of the Society for Contemporary Poetry Tübingen founded by the poet Karl Krolow . As a descendant of the family of the pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel , she was buried on July 18, 2009 in the historic cemetery in Keilhau near Rudolstadt, where Fröbel founded his first educational institution.

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Her great-grandmother Sophie Barop received a love poem from August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben , which can be found in Charlotte Grasnick's prose volume I would like to see a piece of heaven . Her poems were translated into Spanish by the Peruvian poet José Pablo Quevedo (* 1945) and published in Peru in a bilingual book of poems. Many poems by Charlotte Grasnick have appeared in Latin American and Spanish magazines and newspapers (Orlandino Barcelona). Marc Chagall signed two dedications for Charlotte Grasnick.

Publications (selection)

• Airfield for dreams , with reproduction of graphics by Wilhelm Lachnit . Publisher of the Nation 1984
• Blood stimulants . Verlag der Nation 1989, with reproduced drawings by Dieter Goltzsche , ISBN 3-373-00325-3
• After this long winter , Zeitzeichen edition (edited by Paul Alfred Kleinert ), Aschersleben 2003, ISBN 3-9808479-3-4
• So nakedly turned to you , with reproduced drawings by Dieter Goltzsche, Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940426-47-5
• Charlotte Grasnick(= Poetry album 317), selection of poetry by Ulrich Grasnick , graphics by Stefan Friedemann. Märkischer Verlag Wilhelmshorst 2015, ISBN 978-3-943708-17-2
• Intermediate texts. Prose poems edited by Michael Manzek in the Laeser edition , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-061947-2

Participation in projects and anthologies (selection)

• 1993 bird stage
• 1983 Traces in the mirror light
• 1988 selection 88
• 1988 worth booking. Notes on book-making
• 1991 Women's literature ( Buchners Verlag )
• 1998 island window 3
• 1998 women's spring . Poster campaign: poems in the Berlin subway
• 1999 IV. CITA DE LA POESIA
• 2000 Café Berlin No. 2
• 2000 Every time like a present. ISBN 9783000046070 , (editor Michael Manzek ) ( Laeser edition )
• 2014 Feel the rare. Poems , with Charlotte Grasnick, Günter Kunert, Marko Ferst, Elisabeth Hackel, Michael Manzek , Dorothee Arndt, Ulrich Grasnick u. v. a. Berlin, Edition Zeitsprung 2014, ISBN 978-3738600568 .

literature

• Companion of poetic painters . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 2, 2009; obituary

Web links

• Literature by and about Charlotte Grasnick in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schreibfeder.de