Doris Maurer

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Doris Maurer (born December 23, 1951 in Duisburg ; † January 5, 2014 in Bonn ) was a German literary scholar , non-fiction author and journalist .

Doris Maurer (2013)

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ Börsenblatt. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ Bonner General-Anzeiger. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ 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
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