Christine Wolter

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Christine Wolter (1989)

Christine Wolter (born March 30, 1939 in Königsberg (Pr) ) is a German writer .

Life

Christine Wolter is the daughter of the architect Hanns Hopp . After the escape from East Prussia in 1944, the family came to East Berlin via the Radebeul and Halle (Saale) stations in 1950 after the end of the Second World War , where Hanns Hopp helped to plan the Stalinallee . Christine Wolter studied Romance Studies at the Humboldt University from 1957 to 1961 . From 1962 to 1976 she worked as an editor at Aufbau-Verlag . During this time she began editing and translating literary texts, mainly from Italian. She has been a freelance writer since 1976. In 1978 she married an architect from Milan and moved to Italy with her son, who was born in 1970. Today she lives in Albavilla near Milan.

Christine Wolter has been publishing narrative works since the 1970s, which are primarily about female self-awareness and emancipation ; Above all, her highly autobiographically influenced novel Die Alinseglerin , which was filmed in 1987 at DEFA by Herrmann Zschoche under the title Die Alinseglerin , was a public success in both parts of Germany. In addition, this country also played an important role in her work before she moved to Italy.

Works

  • My Italian trip , Berlin [a. a.] 1973
  • How I lost my innocence , Berlin [u. a.] 1976
  • June in Sicily , Berlin [a. a.] 1977
  • The background person or attempts to love Berlin [u. a.] 1979
  • The lone sailor , Berlin [u. a.] 1982
  • Italy trips , Berlin [u. a.] 1982
  • Areopolis , Berlin [a. a.] 1985
  • Street of the Hours , Berlin [u. a.] 1987
  • Piazza Brà , Zurich 1988
  • The Stendhal Syndrome , Berlin [u. a.] 1990
  • Italy must be beautiful , Berlin 1993
  • The Memory Room , Berlin 1996
  • The heart, this restless affection and dislike machine , Berlin 2000
  • Mariane or Immortality , Leipzig 2004
  • Dream Berlin East , Berlin 2009
  • Poetry album 312 : Christine Wolter , selection of poetry by Günter Kunert , graphic by Hans Vent . MärkischerVerlag Wilhelmshorst 2014, ISBN 978-3-943708-12-7 .
Editing
  • Italian poetry of the 20th century , Berlin [a. a.] 1971
  • 50 novellas of the Italian Renaissance , Berlin 1974
  • Giuseppe Ungaretti : The Joy of Shipwrecks , Berlin 1977
  • Jokes and pranks of the Italian Renaissance , Leipzig 1978
  • Italian love stories , Leipzig 1981
  • Matteo Bandello : Seven Novellas , Berlin 1983
  • Never again ism , Berlin 1992 (together with Manfred Wolter)
Translations
  • Danilo Dolci : The sky is made of smoke , Berlin [u. a.] 1976 (translated with Anna Mudry)
  • Mihai Eminescu : The Evening Star , Berlin [u. a.] 1964 (translated together with Günther Deicke)
  • Tommaso Landolfi : Impossible Stories , Berlin 1969 (translated with E.-A. Nicklas)
  • Claudio Magris : Der Ring der Clarisse , Frankfurt am Main 1987
  • Zsigmond Móricz : Herrengelage , Berlin [u. a.] 1965 (translated together with Peter Paul Schneider and Jörg Buschmann)
  • Gabriele Mucchi : Missed Opportunities , Berlin 1997
  • Edoardo Persico : Die Freiheit des Geistes , Basel [u. a.] 1993
  • Alberto Savinio : New Encyclopedia , Frankfurt am Main 1983
  • Leonardo Sciascia : The Witches Court , Zurich [u. a.] 1986

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personal data
SURNAME Wolter, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg