German poets

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German poets from the 16th century to the present day. Poems and CVs is the first comprehensive anthology of German-speaking female poets . It was published for the first time in 1978 by the German literary scholar Gisela Brinker-Gabler , who died in the USA in 2019 , and expanded in 2007 by her fifth edition.

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Gisela Brinker-Gabler's book German Poets from the 16th Century to the Present. Poems and CVs appeared for the first time in 1978. The book was the “result of new source research ” and the selection of texts was made at a time when there were hardly any preparatory work or selection categories for it. Brinker-Gabler described her selection of poetry examples, which she made “in favor of the unknown”, as “subjective and partisan” and justified both criteria in the preliminary remark . In doing so, she critically included that traditional “literary history - criticism and science” in a male-dominated society cannot be gender-neutral. Your selection therefore opens up "a [previously unknown] tradition of female lyric poetry", "in which the development of female self-confidence can be read". In contrast to the historical literary canon , the selection of female poetry presented by Brinker-Gabler is not subject to the subjective male criteria. The five re-editions up to 2007 speak in favor of this path.

"It is the merit of today's writers to have snatched old poets from oblivion by unswervingly and tenaciously fought for a new edition of their works from publishers and empathetically, with a sisterly gaze, let their picture arise against the historical background."

- Renate Wiggershaus 1985 : New tendencies in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Switzerland

The examples published cover all areas of women's lives. Texts such as About my incessant misfortune by the baroque poet Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633–1693) or from the time of political unrest in Berlin on the evening of November 12, 1848 by Louise Aston (1814–1871) are represented, as are Saint Peter and the Bluestock by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) and Clara Müller-Jahnke (1860-1905) factory output from the time the labor movement, the cat of Marieluise Kaschnitz (1901-1974) and the ballad of the castrated dolls of Helga Novak ( 1935-2013).

Contents overview

The table of contents (the version from 1978/1986) shows in chronological order sixty female poets with their life stories and the titles of their printed poems, starting with Elisabeth von Brandenburg (1510–1558) via, for example, Margaretha Susanna von Kuntsch (1651–1717), Mariana von Ziegler (1695–1760), Sidoniazaunemann (1714–1740), Anna Louisa Karsch (1722–1791), Johanna Charlotte Unzer (1725–1782), Sophie Albrecht (1756–1840), Sophie Mereau (1770–1806), Karoline von Günderode (1780–1806), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), Kathinka Zitz-Halein (1801–1877), Luise von Plönnies (1803–1872), Isolde Kurz (1853–1944), Emma Döltz ( 1866–1950) and Nelly Sachs (1891–1970) to Sarah Kirsch (1935–2013).

Over fifty pages of preliminary remarks and introduction give an account of Brinker-Gabler's research and approach.

reception

  • The book was published in 1978 in the series Die Frau in der Gesellschaft published by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag .
  • The 2nd “only slightly changed” edition was published in 1986.
  • The latest (fifth) substantially expanded edition from 2007 with the slightly changed title German Poets from the 16th Century to Today advertises with informative text on the Internet.

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  1. ↑ German female poets from the 16th century to the present day. Poems and CVs. (The woman in society) 1st edition 1978.
  2. ↑ Gisela Brinker-Gabler ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ German poets , 2nd edition 1986, preliminary remark p. 13.
  4. ↑ Brinker-Gabler described the selection of the texts as of "provisional character".
  5. ^ German poets 1986, p. 14.
  6. ↑ In: Hiltrud Gnüg and Renate Möhrmann (eds.): Women's literature history. Writing women from the Middle Ages to the present. J. B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3 476 00585 2 , pp. 416–433, here 419.
  7. ↑ See web link New Extended Edition 2007.