Christa Reinig

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Christa Reinig (born August 6, 1926 in Berlin , † September 30, 2008 in Munich ) was a German writer .

Life

Christa Reinig was the illegitimate daughter of the single cleaning lady Wilhelmine Reinig. She grew up in poor conditions in East Berlin, was a factory worker in the Second World War and then a rubble woman and florist (flower maker). From 1950 to 1953 she studied at the Workers 'and Farmers' Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin for the purpose of obtaining the Abitur . Then she graduated from this university with a degree in art history and archeology . From 1957 to 1964 she was a research assistant and curator at the Märkisches Museum .

Reinig had already started writing in the 1940s; she worked for the East Berlin satirical magazine Eulenspiegel and was able to publish some literary articles in the GDR . Because of their non-conformist attitude towards any authority, however, the GDR authorities imposed a publication ban on them as early as 1951, so that their works were only published by West German publishers in the 1950s. In West Berlin she worked in a group of so-called “future-oriented poets”, whose hectographed magazine Evviva future she was editor of from 1949 to 1960. She was an honorary member of Johannes Bobrowski's New Friedrichshagener Poet Circle . Shortly after the death of her mother in 1964 , she fled the GDR, not returning to the GDR after receiving the Bremen Literature Prize. She has lived in Munich ever since.

Christa Reinig initially continued to write ballad-like poems in an angular style, but also love poetry , prose and radio plays . After breaking up in the 1970s publicly their lesbian orientation had known , the militant was feminism in her work in the foreground, often interspersed with satire and black humor . Reinig was a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Christa Reinig suffered from Bechterew's disease . From the beginning of 2008 until her death, she lived in a Diakonie nursing home in Munich.

Awards and honors

• 1964 Bremen Literature Prize
• 1965 Villa Massimo grant
• 1968 Radio Play Prize of the War Blind
• 1969 Tukan Prize of the City of Munich
• 1973 Honorary gift from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• 1975 German Critics' Prize
• 1976 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1984 prize of the SWR best list
• 1993 Roswitha Prize of the City of Bad Gandersheim
• 1999 Brandenburg Literature Prize
• 2003 Kester Haeusler honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation

Works

• The stones of Finisterre , Stierstadt im Taunus 1960
• The dream of my depravity. Prose. Wolfgang Fietkau Verlag, Berlin 1968 (steps 4, first edition 1961), ISBN 3-87352-004-4
• Poems , Frankfurt am Main 1963
• Three ships , Frankfurt am Main, 1965
• Orion stepped out of the house - New Constellations , Taurus City in the Taunus 1968
• Schwabinger Marterln , Stierstadt im Taunus 1968
• The aquarium , Stuttgart 1969
• Swallow from Olevano , Stierstadt im Taunus 1969
• The great Bechterew Tantra , Stierstadt im Taunus 1970
• Papantscha-Vielerlei , Stierstadt im Taunus 1971
• The ballad vom bloody Bomme , Düsseldorf 1972 (together with Christoph Meckel )
• Hantipanti , Weinheim 1972
• The heavenly and earthly geometry , Düsseldorf 1975
• Emasculation , Düsseldorf 1976
• The dog with the key , Düsseldorf 1976 (together with Gerhard Grimm)
• My heart is a yellow flower , Düsseldorf 1978 (together with Ekkehart Rudolph)
• Idleness is the beginning of all love , Düsseldorf 1979
• The Examination of the Smile , Munich 1980
• The wolf and the widows , Düsseldorf 1980
• Girls without uniform , Düsseldorf 1981 (with original offset lithographs by Klaus Endrikat ).
• The Eternal School , Verlag Frauenoffensive, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88104-116-8 .
• The woman in the fountain , Munich 1984.
• Complete poems , Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1984.
• Flammable , Berlin 1985. New edition: Wagenbach, Berlin 2010.
• Recognizing what salvation is , Munich 1986 (together with Marie-Luise Gansberg and Mechthild Beerlage).
• Collected stories , Darmstadt a. a. 1986.
• Nobody and other stories , Düsseldorf 1989.
• Luck and Glass , Düsseldorf 1991.
• A wave of wild swans , Ravensburg 1991.
• The frog in a glass , Düsseldorf 1994.
• Simsalabim , Düsseldorf 1999 (together with Hans Ticha ).
• The Yellow from Heaven , Düsseldorf 2006 (together with Hans Ticha).

Editing

• Annette von Droste-Hülshoff : Poems , Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1969.

Translations

• Marina Tsvetaeva : Poems , Berlin 1968.

Discography

• From stories about the Hantipanti ; in Why is the banana crooked? , Berlin 1971 (further articles by Peter Bichsel , Wolf Biermann , Floh de Cologne , Ernst Jandl , Günter Herburger , Günter Bruno Fuchs , Reinhard Lettau and Peter Rühmkorf )

literature

• Cäcilia Ewering: Frauenliebe und -literatur , Essen 1992
• Amy Jones Hayworth: An ecofeminist perspective , Urbana-Champaign, Ill. 2000
• Klaudia Heidemann-Nebelin: Little Red Riding Hood kills the wolf , Bonn 1994
• Dieter Hülsmanns (Ed.): Congratulations , Düsseldorf 1976
• Ilse Lenz : The New Women's Movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 .
• Madeleine Marti: Deposited messages. The representation of lesbian women in German-language literature since 1945 . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, especially pp. 308-368
• Sibylle Scheßwendter: Representation and resolution of life problems in the work: Christa Reinig , dissertation, Siegen 2000

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Women's biography research: Christa Reinig Retrieved on May 2, 2011
2. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Christa Reinig , October 7, 2008 . Retrieved May 3, 2011

Web links

• Literature by and about Christa Reinig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christa Reinig. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).