Doris Maurer
Doris Maurer (born December 23, 1951 in Duisburg ; † January 5, 2014 in Bonn ) was a German literary scholar , non-fiction author and journalist .
Life
Doris Maurer attended secondary school and later an advanced high school. She studied German, English and philosophy at the Universities of Bonn and Tübingen . In 1976 she passed the first state examination and received her doctorate in 1978. She then worked until 1982 as a research assistant on the all-German project of the new Schiller national edition and had a teaching position at the German Department of the University of Bonn . From 1982 she worked as an author, freelance lecturer in adult education and gave lectures.
She was particularly active as a literary mediator in seminars, bookshops, adult education centers and other educational institutions, especially after the spring and autumn book fairs . Maurer wrote and spoke around 50 ZeitZezeichen and worked regularly for Die Zeit in the "Zeitlaufte" section. She wrote three biographies, about Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , Charlotte von Stein and Eleonora Duse .
Together with her husband Arnold E. Maurer, she wrote several literary travel guides. The most famous, the Literary Guide to Italy , has also been translated into Italian.
Works
- Doris Maurer: August von Kotzebue. Causes of its success. Constant elements of entertaining drama . Bouvier, Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-416-01501-0 .
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. A life between rebellion and obedience. Bonn 1982
- Bonn tells. Forays through literary Bonn from 1780–1980 (together with AE Maurer). Bonn 1983
- Friedrich Schiller: The robbers. A picture documentation on the development and impact history . Dortmund 1983
- Wuppertal tells. Literary forays through the city in the Wupper (together with AE Maurer). Bonn 1983
- 200 years of Reading and Recreation Society Bonn. 1787 - 1987 (together with AE Maurer). Bonn 1987
- Eleonora Duse . Rowohlt, 1988
- The other Venice. Life in the lagoon (together with AE Maurer and M. Zanetti - photos). Dortmund 1988
- Literary Guide to Italy: An Island Travel Dictionary . (together with Arnold Maurer). Insel Verlag, 1988
- Documents on Bonn's theater history 1778 - 1784. Court theater under Gustav Friedrich Großmann and Karoline Großmann . Edited by D. Maurer et al. AE Mason. Bonn 1989
- Bonn. A city reader . (together with Arnold Maurer). Insel Verlag, 1990
- Potsdam. A travel book . Edited by D. Maurer et al. AE Mason. Frankfurt a. M./Leipzig 1993
- Reading happiness. An anthology about heaven on earth . Edited by D. Mason. Essen: Klartext Verlag 1996
- Charlotte von Stein: A biography . Insel Verlag, 1997
- The Kiss , Insel Verlag, 1998
- Venice: a travel companion . (together with Arnold Maurer). island paperback, 2006
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and her friends . (together with Monika Ditz). Turm-Verlag, 2006
- The literary Weimar - the literary Bonn: eight portraits of authoritative women . Bonner Verlags-Comptoir, 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816870-0-2
literature
Web links
- Literature by and about Doris Maurer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Article by Doris Maurer in Die Zeit
- Voice of Russia
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Irma Hildebrandt, Renate Massmann: I write because I write. GEDOK authors . A documentation. Weise, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-9802213-1-8 , p. 208 .
- ↑ Börsenblatt. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
- ↑ Bonner General-Anzeiger. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ↑ Doris Maurer is dead. The Bonn book author, journalist and literary mediator Doris Maurer died on January 5th in her hometown. In: book journal. buchhandel.de, January 9, 2014, accessed on January 23, 2014 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mason, Doris |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mueller, Doris (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist and journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th January 2014 |
Place of death | Bonn |