Doris Claudia Mandel
Doris Claudia Mandel (* 1951 in Merseburg ) is a German writer . She lives in Halle (Saale) .
Life
After graduating from high school and completing vocational training as a chemical technician and a brief interlude with the riot police in Halle (Saale), she became a plant operator in the oxygen factory of the Leuna-Werke . From 1971 to 1975 she studied German, music and education at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , where she graduated with a philological diploma. She then worked there until 1978 as a research student in the field of literary sociology .
Mandel became a member of the Young Authors 'Working Group and a candidate for the GDR Writers' Association . From 1978 to 1991 she worked as a freelance writer and journalist. As a singer she sang for ten years as a member of the Halle Madrigalists . From 1980 (with a break in 1989) to 2001, Mandel was the artistic director of the Leuna Chamber Choir. In 1991 she founded a weekly magazine, the “Merseburger Anzeiger”, and headed it as editor-in-chief.
After an initial period of unemployment from 1994 to 1997, she was hired as head of public relations at the Künstlerhaus in Halle (Saale). Mandel was also co-founder and managing director with power of attorney of projekte verlag 188 GmbH (until 1998). Today she lives as a freelance writer and independent publisher in Halle (Saale). Since 1998 she has been a member of the support group for writers in Saxony-Anhalt e. V. and since 2005 member of the Writers' Union. In 2006 she founded the Galgenbergsche Literaturkanzlei e. K., a book publisher.
Scholarships and Awards
- 1997 Finalist in the literature competition of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR).
- 2002/2003 City Clerk of Halle (Saale) .
- 2004 scholarship from the state of Saxony-Anhalt with a stay at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf.
- 2008 working grant from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation and second prize winner at the State Prize for Popular Theater Plays in Baden-Württemberg.
Works
Pieces for the stage
- Opern-Treff (premiere 1978, Landestheater Halle)
- The cats does not stop to mice. A pasticcio to tobacco and coffee in music (premiere 1979, Landestheater Halle)
- In the valley of Halle. Songs, stories and customs of the Halloren (compositions: Johannes Reiche, Gerd Ochs et al., Edition Giovanni, Halle 1995)
- The little game of the big time. A School Farce (WP 1995, amateur playgroup)
- Homestory. A farce for two (adspecta Theaterverlag, 2012)
- Billing. Comedy (adspecta Theaterverlag, 2012)
Literary studies
- Reflections on a Goethe poem (in: Hallesche Studies on the Effects of Language and Literature, Halle 1982)
- Special problems of the reception of poetry (in: Reading experience. Life experience. Literary sociological studies. Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar 1983)
Contributions to anthologies
- A rain from which (poems. In: New German Literature, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar, 1981)
- Jannis Ritsos. (Re-sealings. In: Poetry album 195, Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1983)
- Hennenhahn and Wrdlwrmpf (in: Anthologie, Kinderbuchverlag Berlin, 1984)
- Double turn. A reminiscence (biographical note. In: Wendpunkte, Förderkreis der Writers, Halle 1999)
- Stone Age (story. In: Der Turmspringer and other stories, Leipzig, Faber & Faber, 1999)
- draw according to nature (poem. In: Christoph Buchwald and Kathrin Schmidt [Eds.], Yearbook of Poetry 2011, Munich 2011)
- The two-finger syndrome (story. In: Ingeborg von Lips [Hrsgb.], Hallesche Anthologie. Texts of a literary expedition, Halle (Saale) 2012)
- Bandreißer (Narration. In: Ellen Roemer [Hrsgb.], The noise falls silent until there is silence in you. Anthology for the 4th Brüggen Literature Autumn. Geest-Verlag Vechta 2012)
Re-composing of musical works
She published musical adaptations and original texts under her former name Dirk Mandel .
- Mikis Theodorakis : Symphony No. 2. Das Lied der Erde (German EA 1982, Berlin)
- Mikis Theodorakis / Odiseas Elites : To Axion Esti (German EA 1982, Dresden, new edition on audio CD at Berlin Classics 1998)
- Mikis Theodorakis / Michalis Katsaros : The Sadducee Passion (World Premiere 1983, Berlin, new edition on audio CD at Berlin Classics 2004)
- Mikis Theodorakis / Tasos Livadhitis : Liturgy No. 2. The children killed in wars (German EA 1983, Dresden, new edition on audio CD at Berlin Classics 1995)
Book publications
- Brutus the Hellhound. A story with pictures by Heike Lichtenberg (Halle, 1998)
- The taming of chaos. Transsexuality and Society. Attempt to approach from a philosophical point of view (Essay. Halle 1999)
- Stone age. Stories (Halle, 2000)
- My enemy, the darkness. Poems (a selection from thirty years. Halle 2001)
- Bride show in Lauchstädt. Two pieces (hall 2007)
- Laura under the treetops and the principal death. Goethe and Schiller's worldview in poems from the years 1780 to 1782. (Essay. Halle, 2007)
- The Stadler case and the baker's curse. A folk piece and an opera libretto (Halle 2008)
- Under the mulberry trees. Roman (Südwestbuch Stuttgart 2012)
There are also around 200 various individual texts for settings (both original texts and adaptations, e.g. in SING A SONG. Songs of the peoples of North America and DIN DON DEINE. Songs of the peoples of Europe, Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1984 and 1978).
literature
- Between state power and self-realization: Friedrich Döppe and the Young Authors Working Group (AJA) from 1969 to 1983. A documentation commissioned by the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Zeit-Geschichte (n) association, ed. by Thomas Kupfer and Wilhelm Bartsch. HALMA special volume, 1998
Web links
- Literature by and about Doris Claudia Mandel in the catalog of the German National Library
- official homepage
- http://www.foerderkreis-halle.de
- http://www.literaturkanzlei.de
- http://www.autorenhaus-verlag.de/autorenhaus-schriftstellerlexikon&q=M.phtml
- http://www.saur.de/kuerschner/literatur_kuerschner/home/page03.htm
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mandel, Doris Claudia |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Merseburg |