Constanze John

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Constanze John (born January 30, 1959 in Leipzig ) is a German author who is best known for her literary travel reports and her work with children and young people.

Life

Growing up in Leipzig, she studied German literature , history and education at the local university . From 1981 to 1988 she lived in Rostock and from 1984 to 1987 completed a distance learning course at the Leipzig Institute for Literature . From 1988 to 2001 she lived in Zwickau , initially worked in various professions and has been a freelance writer since 1998 . In 2001 she moved back to Leipzig. Constanze John has two sons.

Act

Her first publication in the literary magazine Temperamente took place in 1987 with a poem about Georg Büchner , to whom she always felt connected in her later work. In her volume of stories, Fernwärme , the focus was on human relationships. She also recounted local legends from Zwickau and the surrounding area, which were published in two books. So far, the emergence of three opera librettos and for the radio numerous features , stories for children and radio plays . Several trips abroad, including to Armenia , Georgia and Brazil , were and are formative for her current work. Working with children and young people, whom she is always close to in readings and literary workshops, is particularly important to her . From 1993 to 2012 she worked in this sense, especially in Zwickau, and has been working at the youth literature workshop in Graz since 2005, especially during the annual writing time in the municipality of Alberndorf in Upper Austria. She was also the editor of several books with stories by and for children. Constanze John has been running the writing workshop for children at the Haus des Buches in Leipzig since 2012.

As founding chairman, she got the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis in the Free State of Saxony back on track from 2008 to 2009 .

In addition to travel reports for Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio, DuMont Reiseverlag published two books on Armenia and Georgia. In 2013 Constanze John received the Johann Gottfried Seume Literature Prize for her previously unpublished manuscript "Gelber Staub. A Journey to Armenia" .

Works

Prose and poetry

  • District heating. Stories and miniatures. Verlag Die Scheune, Dresden 1999, ISBN 3-931684-25-3 .
  • Legends and stories from the Zwickau region. Husum 1999, ISBN 3-88042-896-4 .
  • But it was still luck. Story, with color prints by Christiane Werner. Viktoria Verlag, Meißen 2005.
  • About the pig that skated. Stories for children, with illustrations by Daniel Grunewald. Viktoria Verlag, Meißen 2006, ISBN 3-936671-16-8 .
  • From the ink cartridge in love. Stories for children, with illustrations by Daniel Grunewald. Viktoria Verlag, Meißen 2006, ISBN 3-936671-17-6 .
  • Home and Lot. Poetic pieces, with illustrations by Daniel Grunewald. Viktoria-Verlag, Meißen 2009, ISBN 978-3-936671-22-3 .
  • Legends from Zwickau. Revised version, Verlag der Marxschen Buchhandlung, Zwickau 2010.
  • Forty days in Armenia. In an old country in the Caucasus. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2015, ISBN 978-3-770182-76-3 .
  • Blue room. Texts 1983–2014, freiraum-verlag, Greifswald 2015, ISBN 978-3-943672-67-1 .
  • Forty days in Georgia. On the way from Tbilisi to the Black Sea. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2018, ISBN 978-3-770182-93-0 .
  • Forty days in Azerbaijan. On the way between the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2020, ISBN 978-3-770182-99-2 .

Theater and radio

  • Newton , monologue, world premiere in 2000 at the Theater Zwickau
  • Liramlarum , first performance 2001 in the Haus des Buches Leipzig
  • Between Heaven and Earth , Feature, MDR 2003.
  • Christmas Mountains , Feature, MDR 2004.
  • Ritter Bart , play for children, radio play version, Litag Theaterverlag GmbH Bremen, 2005.
  • Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten , play for children, radio play version, Litag Theaterverlag GmbH Bremen, 2005.
  • The Girl Fragrant Spring , libretto, composer: Jiwon Kwon (South Korea), Rheinsberg Opera Workshop, 2006
  • Because the beautiful means the possible end of horrors. Or: Bach and brown coal , Feature, Deutschlandfunk 2006.
  • News from another planet. What children write ; Feature, Deutschlandfunk 2007.
  • I do not sleep. Living with Death , Feature, Deutschlandfunk 2008.
  • The Bremen Town Musicians , play, world premiere in the Theater in der Mauer Judenburg (Austria) 2009.
  • Grete Minde , libretto, composer: Sören Nils Eichberg , world premiere in Tangermünde 2009
  • Oscar's mythical worlds. How a Swiss man moved to Brazil and found his Macondo , Feature, Deutschlandfunk 2010.

Movie

Editor or co-editor

  • with Kerstin Schimmel (Ed.): GrenzFall Einheit. Interim reports from Saxony. Evangelical Academy Meißen, Forumverlag Leipzig 2005.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Johann Gottfried Seume Association "ARETHUSA" eV: The 2013 Seume Literature Prize goes to Constanze John! In: www.seumeverein-arethusa.de. Retrieved February 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME John, Constanze
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig