Dora Koster

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Dora Koster (born June 5, 1939 in St. Gallen ; † November 29, 2017 ) was a Swiss writer , painter and former prostitute . She was also known under the pseudonyms Oiseau Bleu / Blauer Vogel , Platonia Mars and Isa Syltjé .

Life

Koster spent her first years with her maternal grandparents in Alsace . After the Second World War, her mother returned to Switzerland with her in 1945. Until she was twenty, Dora Koster lived in 35 different families, eight children's homes and, most recently, in a boarding school, where she was musically influenced. At the age of twenty she left Switzerland and worked in Paris on the Place des Vosges , with Rabbi David Feuerwerker as governess. After her return to Switzerland, Dora Koster entered the political scene in Geneva . She then worked as an employee in various companies until she was forty and also ran a so-called sex clinic in Zurich until her daughter came of age.

Her first book Nothing goes anymore. Stations of a woman from the milieu (1980) triggered a considerable response at the 1980 Frankfurt Book Fair . As a reaction to this unexpected development, Koster soon withdrew into private life. Since then she has worked as a writer and painter.

Dora Koster has been involved in voluntary work for AIDS sufferers and people in difficult situations in Zurich for over 30 years . For her literary achievements and her social commitment, she was awarded prizes by the city and canton of Zurich and the island of Helgoland .

The ZDF broadcast on March 31, 1981 a documentary review of Dora Koster in the series "life experiences".

Dora Koster lived in Niederdorf in Zurich . She died at the age of 78.

Works

  • Nothing works anymore. Stations of a woman from the milieu . Unionsverlag, Zurich 1980.
  • Mosquitoes in paradise. A political thriller . Places, Zurich 1981.
  • Gentle and dangerous. Poems. Benteli, Bern 1981.
  • Waving moon we're coming. Poems. Froschau, Zurich 1982.
  • Tarred and feathered. Neuer Malik, Kiel 1983.
  • Shade purple. Landbote, Munich 1984.
  • Just a jump into the world. Oiseau bleu. Richter, Munich 1984.
  • Blue dream, a realistic fairy tale. Richter, Munich 1985.
  • Time blood. Froschau, Zurich 1987.
  • Orchids and after. Hoarfrost, Zurich 1988.
  • Purple corpses and other niceties. Froschau, Zurich 1993.
  • Dance of the Solid. Letters. Limmat, Zurich 1994.
  • Farewell to the tiger finches. Eleven stories and a foreword. Froschau, Zurich 1996.
  • Murder approved. A Zurich thriller. Spiro, Zurich 1999.
  • Heaven is not a true house. Stories and letters from the Swiss forest. Wotan, Zurich 1999.
  • Merde. Poems of a strange love. Froschau, Zurich 2003.
  • Judas in jeans. Tales of a shadow thrower. Froschau, Zurich 2005.

Movie

  • Hans-Dieter Grabe : Dora Koster - prostitute . Television documentary. 45th min. ZDF, 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle of broadcast dates for the series
  2. ↑ Thomas Isler: Obituary. Failed because of love. In: NZZ am Sonntag of December 17, 2017, p. 19 ( online)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / epaper.nzz.ch  
  3. ↑ Description of the film on the occasion of the re-broadcast after 30 years. On the ARD website, accessed on December 7, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Koster, Dora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oiseau Bleu (pseudonym); Platonia Mars (pseudonym); Syltjé, Isa (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, painter and prostitute
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH 29th November 2017