Christine Koschel

Christine Koschel (born May 19, 1936 in Breslau ) is a German writer and translator.

Life

After fleeing Silesia in 1944, Christine Koschel attended a boarding school. From 1955 to 1964 she worked in Munich as an assistant director at the theater as well as for film and television productions. Since 1965 she has lived in Rome as a freelance writer and translator. After she had never received a permanent employment contract as a long-time employee of the German-speaking service of Vatican Radio , in 1984 she led the first labor court case in the history of the Vatican together with Ingrid Elisabeth Bennig and Inge von Weidenbaum .

Christine Koschel has been publishing poems and translating literary texts from English and Italian since the early 1960s. In 1963 she read in Saulgau at the meeting of Group 47 . After she had published Ingeborg Bachmann 's works together with Inge von Weidenbaum and Clemens Münster in 1978, Koschel and Weidenbaum edited Bachmann's literary estate from 1979 to 1981 at the Austrian National Library in Vienna.

Christine Koschel is a member of the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad .

Prizes and awards

• 1983 Hieronymusring (together with Inge von Weidenbaum)
• 1993 Special Prize of the Silesian Culture Prize of the State of Lower Saxony
• 2003 Scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta in Feldafing
• 2007/2008 Heinrich Ellermann scholarship
• 2012 Premio Internazionale `` Sulle Orme di Ada Negri '' for unpublished works

Works

• Wear the wind skull . Poems. Ellermann Verlag, Hamburg 1961.
• Pile fuga . Poems and prose poems. Piper Verlag, Munich 1966.
• Time to jump off the swing . Poems. Piper Verlag, Munich 1975. ISBN 3-492-00430-X .
• The end of the pigeon . Poems. Corvinus Presse, Berlin 1992. ISBN 3-910172-10-5 .
• 10 early poems . Berlin 2000.
• A microscopic crack . Poems. Corvinus Press, Berlin 2001.
• Open a blink of an eye . Poems. [Second volume in the series of poets : Christine Koschel - Székely Magda]. Kortina Verlag, Vienna and Budapest 2007. ISBN 978-3-9502315-1-9 .
• Until the memory turns green. Poems . With an afterword by Ruxandra Niculescu. Edition Rugerup, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-942955-34-8 .

Editing

Together with Clemens Münster and Inge von Weidenbaum, she published a four-volume edition of Ingeborg Bachmann's works for Piper-Verlag, Munich.

• Ingeborg Bachmann: We have to find true sentences. Munich 1983. Edited together with Inge von Weidenbaum, ISBN 978-3-492-02724-3 .
• Not an objective judgment - just a living one . Texts on the work of Ingeborg Bachmann. Munich 1989. Edited together with Inge von Weidenbaum, ISBN 978-3-492-10792-1 .

Translations

• Djuna Barnes : Antiphon. Frankfurt am Main 1972 (translated together with Inge von Weidenbaum)
• Djuna Barnes: Go to the dogs. The Dove. An Irish triangle. Bremen 1991 (translated together with Inge von Weidenbaum)
• Maura Del Sarra : Elementi. Wuppertal 1997
• Thomas Lüttge : History of our future. Munich 1983 (translated together with Ingrid von Weidenbaum)
• Gwendolyn MacEwen : The T. E. Lawrence Poems. Hörby / Sweden 2010
• Eugenio Montale : The Posthumous Diary. Munich
  1. The words spray. 1998.
  2. A gust of wind from the horizon. 2001.

Web links

• Christine Koschel in the membership directory of the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad
• Short biography of Christine Koschels

Individual evidence

1. ↑ I find it difficult to love my Pope. In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1984 ( online ).