Christa Partsch

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Christa Partsch (born July 4, 1926 in Salzwedel ; † April 4, 2002 ) was a German bookbinder and poet .

Career

Christa Partsch completed an apprenticeship as a bookbinder at the art school of the city of Halle from 1942 to 1945, which was run as a craft school during the time of the Third Reich . After the war she studied at the re-established art school until 1948, Gustav Weidanz was one of her teachers .

In 1950 she passed her master's examination as an art bookbinder and returned to her hometown of Salzwedel, where she worked in her own workshop for two decades. In 1971 she moved to Weißenfels , where she worked in the workshop of her husband, the master bookbinder Gustav Partsch (1921–1992). In 1973 she became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Partsch has been writing poems since 1981, which she presented in occasional readings. Her first volume of poetry, Orfeo. Poems between death and life , published in 1994 by Janos Stekovics . Several other volumes followed, most recently Herzgang (2001). She has also published in anthologies, newspapers and magazines.

Partsch was the initiator and board member of the Novalis literary circle in Weißenfels, which was founded on March 25, 1991. From 1994 to 1996 she was a member of the Free German Association of Authors , since November 1996 in the support group of writers in Saxony-Anhalt .

Works (selection)

  • Orfeo. Poems between death and life , Halle: Verlag Janos Stekovics 1994
  • Bronze tone. Selection of poems 1984–1995 , Halle: Verlag Janos Stekovics 1996
  • Heart passage. Poems , Duisburg: Gilles & Francke Verlag 2001

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SURNAME Partsch, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookbinder and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzwedel
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2002