Daniela Danz

Daniela Danz at a panel discussion in Frankfurt in 2019

Daniela Danz (born September 5, 1976 in Eisenach ) is a German writer .

Life

Danz studied art history and German language and literature in Tübingen (among others with Paul Hoffmann ), Prague , Berlin , Leipzig and Halle an der Saale, and did his doctorate on “Hospital Church Construction in the Weimar Republic ”. She holds teaching positions in Osnabrück and is currently teaching at the University of Hildesheim . From 2003 to 2010 she worked as an art inventory manager for the Evangelical Church. Today Danz lives as a freelance writer in Kranichfeld . She has been the director of the Schiller House in Rudolstadt since 2013 .

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Danz's literary work includes poetry , prose , essay writing and children's literature . She also works with composers , some of her works have been set to music and translated into other languages. Her works deal with the classical canon of forms and ancient materials, such as Homer 's epics or Ovid's Metamorphoses . From here Danz tries out transitions to recent history, e.g. B. the Second World War , and on current socio-political issues such as migration . Florian Illies certified Danz a "feeling for the oppressive presence of history". In her latest novel, "Lange Fluchten" (Long Flights), Danz deals with a medieval subject, the legend of St. Eustachius .

Awards

1995: Winner of the young authors meeting
1997, 2000, 2001: Young Literature Forum Hessen-Thuringia
2004: Working grant from the Kulturfonds Foundation
2005: Georg Kaiser Prize for Literature from the State of Saxony-Anhalt
2005: Working grant from the German Literature Fund eV
2006: Hermann Lenz Scholarship
2008: Scholarship from the Lower Saxony Foundation
2009: Scholarship from the Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt
2010: Scholarship from the Else Heiliger Fund
2012: Thuringian Literature Scholarship Harald Gerlach
2012: Tübingen city clerk
2013: Working grant from the German Literature Fund eV
2014: Rainer Malkowski Prize , together with Mirko Bonné
2016: Scholarship from the German Academy Rome Casa Baldi
2017: Writer in Residence at Queen Mary University of London
2018: Berlin Art Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts
2019: German Prize for Nature Writing (together with Martina Kieninger )
2020: Literature Prize of the A and A Cultural Foundation

Memberships

since 2015: Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
since 2018: Member of the PEN Club Germany
since 2019: Member of the jury of the German Schiller Foundation from 1859
since 2019: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia

Works (selection)

Poetry

Wilderness. Poems. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3833-3
V. Poems. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1377-4 .
Pontus. Poems. 4th edition, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0476-5 . Translations and a. into Arabic (2010).
Serimunt. Poems. Wartburg Verlag, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-86160-314-4 .

prose

Long escapes. Novel . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1841-0 .
Tower keeper. Novel . New edition Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0666-0 .
Arachne. Literary Society Thuringia eV, Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-936305-02-1 .

Essay writing

Kottwitz and the Inner Tour. In: the hear. Journal for literature, art and criticism 3/2011.
To meet. Poetics of the Present. Ed .: Martin Bruch. Hildesheim 2008.
15 years of German unity. Correspondence with Tilman Rammstedt . In the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , October 15 to November 19, 2005.
The philosophical light around my window. About Friedrich Hölderlin. Zwiesprachen - A series of the Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett Munich. Das Wunderhorn Heidelberg, 2016. ISBN 978-3-88423-530-0

Scientific publications

Real life and the ideal - A look from the eyes of things onto Schiller's work environment. In: How do I thank you for your memory - the idea and everyday life in Friedrich Schiller's Rudolstadt environment. Ed .: Daniela Danz and Lutz Unbehaun. Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg. Rudolstadt 2018. pp. 35–46.
A life as a work - on the biography of Volkmar Kühn. In: Volkmar Kühn. Sculptural worlds of images. Ed .: Lutz Unbehaun. Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg. Rudolstadt 2017.
Refuge of contradictions. Notes on the mythical in Franz Fühmann's poetics. In: Inside. Approaches to Franz Fühmann. Ed .: Peter Braun, Martin Straub. Wallstein Publishing House. Göttingen 2016. pp. 119–123.
Heart of the facility. The hospital church building of the Weimar Republic (dissertation). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015. ISBN 978-3-8353-1681-2 .
Contribution , In: "About 'The Sonnets an Orpheus' by Rilke". Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016. ISBN 978-3-8353-1701-7 .
VT CVLTV VT LVCTV. Building history and tomb typology of the Buttstadt Gottesacker. In: The old cemetery in Buttstädt. Workbooks of the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation. Vol. 11. E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2004, pp. 9-20, pp. 44-84.
Tied into the bundle of life. A walk through the art history of the Mühringer tombstones. In: Graves in the forest - traces of life in the Jewish cemetery in Mühringen. Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2003. pp. 208-217.

Children's literature

Magic spells and Saxon mirror. In: Reading book for secondary school students. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 2010.
Owl flowers and blow mirror. Stories and poems for preschool and elementary school children. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 2009.

Others

Not here, not there - maybe another time. Graphic novel with pictures by Carsten Weitzmann. In: The fly in time. Bauhaus Graphic Shorts. Ed .: Stefan Petermann. Weimar 2019
in the country where we are blood red. A poetic audio piece about Daniela Danz (direction and production: Alban Nicolai Herbst). WDR Cologne 2010

libretto

The Halit Yozgat murder. Opera by Ben Frost with libretto by Daniela Danz. World premiere at the Staatstheater Hannover: April 17th, 2020.

Individual evidence

^ City of Rudolstadt Schillerhaus: Dr. Daniela Danz - new director from 6th June 2013 - The Schillerhaus in Rudolstadt. In: schillerhaus-rudolstadt.de. June 6, 2013, accessed July 8, 2017 .
↑ Florian Illies: When it dawns, seeing begins. Review of Pontus . In: Die Zeit No. 13/2009, accessed on December 23, 2012.
^ Website of the university town of Tübingen: City clerk 2012: Daniela Danz.
↑ Daniela Danz and Martina Maria Kieninger receive the German Prize for Nature Writing 2019. , Börsenblatt dated August 22, 2019, accessed August 22, 2019
↑ News. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
^ Petra Plättner: Six new members in the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, press release from December 18, 2015 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on December 18, 2015.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Danz, Daniela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	5th September 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eisenach

[schiller-439378-1] City of Rudolstadt Schillerhaus: Dr. Daniela Danz - new director from 6th June 2013 - The Schillerhaus in Rudolstadt. In: schillerhaus-rudolstadt.de. June 6, 2013, accessed July 8, 2017 .

[2] Florian Illies: When it dawns, seeing begins. Review of Pontus . In: Die Zeit No. 13/2009, accessed on December 23, 2012.

[3] Website of the university town of Tübingen: City clerk 2012: Daniela Danz.

[4] Daniela Danz and Martina Maria Kieninger receive the German Prize for Nature Writing 2019. , Börsenblatt dated August 22, 2019, accessed August 22, 2019

[5] News. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .

[6] Petra Plättner: Six new members in the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, press release from December 18, 2015 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on December 18, 2015.