Claudia Rusch

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Claudia Rusch (* 1971 in Stralsund ) is a German journalist and writer .

life and work

Claudia Rusch grew up on the island of Rügen , in Grünheide east of Berlin and since 1982 in East Berlin herself. Her mother was friends with Katja Havemann , which is why Rusch came into contact with opposition circles in the GDR as a child. Nevertheless, Rusch was able to attend an EOS in East Berlin leading to the Abitur . After the peaceful revolution in the GDR and graduating from high school in 1990, she studied German and Romance languages ​​in Berlin and Bologna. She then worked for six years as an editor at MDR in its state broadcasting center in Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg . Rusch has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin since 2001.

In 2003 her first book, My Free German Youth , was published, funded by the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship . The book was long on the bestseller list and has been translated into several languages. The book was nominated in the “Successful Debut” category for the 2004 German Book Prize of the Börsenverein and the Leipziger Messe . The award then went to Yadé Kara . In the biographical volume of stories, Rusch describes the story of a child who grows up as an outsider in GDR society. Critics put her book in a series of partly critical (including my first T-shirt by Jakob Hein ), partly " ostalgic " (including zone children by Jana Hensel ) discussions of their generation with childhood and growing up in the GDR, with a look back on the time in the GDR and the "Wende" difficult to separate from a generation novel ( coming of age novel ). Accordingly, Hein, Hensel and Rusch, among others, were also referred to as the eastern counterpart to the western " Generation Golf "; the corresponding term Generation Trabant was coined in 2001, two years before Rusch's debut was released.

In 2009, Aufbau Ost followed , an autobiographical journey through the past and present of East Germany. In 2010 Mein Rügen , a personal travel guide, appeared. Her first detective novel was published in 2013 with the character "Zapotek", a detective from Hamburg with an East German past, who returns to his parents' house on the Bodden near Stralsund and is involved in a criminal case.

Publications

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Stefan Zahlmann: Autobiographical processing of social failure . Böhlau, Cologne 2009, ISBN 3412202886 , pp. 239-240.
  2. Blurb / publisher's information on My Free German Youth
  3. Jerker Spits: fact and fiction: the autobiography in the field of tension between theory and reception . Leiden 2008, p. 202.
  4. Translations of My Free German Youth (selection):
    • danish Min frie tyske ungdom . Barylerne, Charlottenlund 2005.
    • Finnish Stasi tiskipöydän takana . WSOY, Helsinki 2006.
    • French La Stasi derrière l'évier . NCA, Nancy 2009.
    • Italian La Stasi dietro il lavello . Keller, Rovereto 2009.
    • Dutch Mijn vrije Duitse jeugd . Prometheus, Amsterdam 2004.
    • Swedish Honeckers kanderade äpple . Kjellbergs, Malmö 2006.
  5. Börsenverein announces nominations ( memento of the original from November 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Stern Online from September 30, 2003.
  6. ^ Rusch on the contemporary witness portal 89/90
  7. ^ A b Claudia Gremler: "But somehow it was only television": West German narratives of the fall of the wall in recent novels and their screen adaptations . In: Christiane Schönfeld, Hermann Rasche (Ed.): Processes of transposition: German literature and film . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 9042022841 , p. 270.
  8. ^ Claus Ulrich Bielefeld: Generation Trabant . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from November 13, 2001.
    Generation Trabant In: “Die Welt” from November 9, 2002.
  9. Mein Rügen ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at mareverlag. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mare.de
  10. Elmar Krekeler: Devid Striesow makes the Bodden simmer . In: Die Welt from February 24, 2013.