Dagmar Leupold

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Dagmar Leupold (born October 23, 1955 in Niederlahnstein ) is a German writer .

Life

Dagmar Leupold's parents were expellees : the father, who has a doctorate in mathematics, came from Upper Silesia , the mother from East Prussia . She grew up in Oberlahnstein and Mainz , attended grammar school in Mainz and graduated from high school there in 1974 . She then studied German , philosophy , theater studies and classical philology at the universities in Marburg and Tübingen . In 1980 she passed her state examination in German and philosophy. From 1980 to 1985 she worked as a German teacher at private schools in Florence and as an editor at the German Art History Institute there . From 1985 to 1990 she was a fellow of the Doctoral Program of Comparative Literature at City University in New York and a lecturer at Queens College . She then took on teaching assignments for comparative literature at the universities of Munich and Bamberg . In 1993 she received her PhD in comparative literature from City University in New York.

Dagmar Leupold, who began translating from Italian in the mid-1980s , now lives as a freelance writer near Munich. In her novel The Brightness of the Night , published in 2009, Heinrich von Kleist brings her back to life and lets him begin an exchange of letters with Ulrike Meinhof while traveling through Germany . Also in 2009 was the film Between Today and Tomorrow, based on the novel Eden Plaza with Peter Lohmeyer and Gesine Cukrowski in the leading roles, in the cinemas, for which Leupold wrote the screenplay together with director Fred Breinersdorfer .

Dagmar Leupold heads the Literature and Theater Studio at the University of Tübingen and is the executive chairwoman of the German Literature Fund . She has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 1998 . In 2013 she curated the forum: authors at the Munich Literature Festival . Her novel Unter der Hand was nominated for the German Book Prize in 2013, and Leupold's novel Die Witwen was on the long list of the German Book Prize 2016.

She is the sister of the translator Gabriele Leupold .

Works

  • Like driftwood. Pfaffenweiler 1988.
  • Edmond. Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • Eccoci qua. Hamburg 1993. (Together with Wolfgang Kaiser)
  • The oxymoron as a generative model. New York 1993.
  • The lust of women on page 13. Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • Featherweight. Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • Distillates. Frankfurt am Main 1996.
  • End of season. Frankfurt am Main 1999.
  • Byron's cot. Frankfurt am Main 2001.
  • Eden Plaza. Munich 2002
  • 11.9. - 911, pictures of the new century. Göttingen 2002. (Together with Kerstin Hensel and Marica Bodrozic)
  • After the wars. Novel of a life. Munich 2004.
  • Alphabet on foot. Munich 2005.
  • Green angel, blue land. Munich 2007.
  • The brightness of the night. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59071-9 .
  • Secretly. Young and Young, Salzburg 2013.
  • The widows. Young and Young, Salzburg 2016.
  • Lavinia , Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2019. ISBN 978-3-99027-234-3 .

Translations

  • Giorgio Agamben : Idea of ​​prose. Munich [ua] 1987. (Together with Clemens-Carl Härle)
  • Daniele Del Giudice: The land seen from the sea. Munich [et al.] 1986.
  • Cesare Pavese : The Complete Poems. Düsseldorf 1988.

Film adaptations

  • 2009: Between Today and Tomorrow (based on the novel Eden Plaza ) - Director: Fred Breinersdorfer

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Old-age poverty is programmed" , interview by Thomas Urban , sueddeutsche.de , April 2, 2020.
  2. Review of The Brightness of the Night. Deutschlandradio Kultur from February 4, 2010.