Dorothea Dieckmann

Dorothea Dieckmann (2002)

Dorothea Dieckmann (born December 18, 1957 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German writer , critic and translator .

Life

Dorothea Dieckmann grew up near Esslingen am Neckar . She studied German and philosophy in Cologne and Hamburg and completed her legal clerkship in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg . From 1985 to 1993 she lived in the countryside in Lower Saxony, where she worked as a teacher and her daughter was born in 1986, and in Rome. After further years in Hamburg, she moved to Engadin, Switzerland in 2010 and to Tübingen in 2012; today she lives near Freiburg. She has been working as a freelance writer since 1992.

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Her writing activities include narrative works and essays as well as translations. She also works as a critic and essayist for print media and radio stations. Since 1991 she has published her texts in literary magazines and anthologies. In 2004 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt .

Her first book, Unter Müttern , with its subtitle identifying itself as a “diatribe”, attracted attention because of its criticism of the control power of mothers and the emotional absorption of children. Her second book, Children Use Violence, was no less provocative . In her essay Language Failure , she argues that current literature is self-surrendering to the market and opposes it with a poetics of shame and resistance.

After the poetic sketches How Angels Appear and the symmetrically constructed novella The Difficult and Easy Love of a Woman and Two Men, the author and Belice turned to man 's country. A true story to surrealistic or fairytale forms of representation; the book refers to the children's classic Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll . In his review of the novel Damen & Herren Reinhard Baumgart wrote , “that among the overlooked or misunderstood authors today, alongside so many overestimated, she is one of the very best.” The novel Termini makes the city of Rome the scene of a journalist's Dantesque journey into hell on the occasion of Erich Priebke process in 1996. In the story Harzreise she unfolds the memory of her father in the medium of the landscape.

The novel Guantánamo has been translated into five languages ​​and depicts from the inside the progressive dissociation of one of the more than 600 prisoners in Guantánamo . While the international criticism reacted positively, the jury of the Bachmann Prize rated the text as a "borrowed tragedy". In a later lecture at the TU Dresden, Dieckmann justified her attempt at research-based fiction at a time when this prison camp had hardly received any public attention. The novel was adapted for the theater and this play premiered in 2006.

The author is currently working on an extensive novel project.

Awards

• 1990 Hamburg Prize for Literature
• 1997 Scholarship stay in Wiepersdorf Castle
• 1998 Marburg Literature Prize for Heavy and Light Love
• 2004 Scholarship from the International Writer's Colony, Ledig House, Ghent / NY
• 2004 Participation in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition
• 2007 guest at the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature New York
• 2008 scholarship from the Deutscher Literaturfonds , Darmstadt, for the novel Termini
• 2009 Dresden city clerk
• 2015 grant from the Province of Upper Austria - Salzamt Linz
• 2016, 2017 Two working grants in the project "Salem2Salem", Schloss Salem , Bodenseekreis, in August 2016 and Salem (Village, New York) , in August 2017

Publications

Novels

• Women Men. Roman, Klett-Cotta , Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-608-93325-3
• Guantánamo. Roman, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-608-93599-8
• Terms. Roman, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-608-93660-5

Literary prose

• How angels appear. Rotbuch, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-88022-809-4
• The heavy and the easy love. Novelle, Berlin Verlag , Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-8270-0207-9
• Belice in men's country. A true story. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8270-0219-2
• Harz trip. A story. Weissbooks, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-940888-31-0
• Cherry season. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-86730-136-7

Poetry

• Summer in Dresden. A poem . Ulrich Keicher publishing house, Warmbronn 2017

Non-fiction

• Among mothers. A diatribe. Rowohlt Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-87134-071-5
• Children resort to violence. Essay. Rotbuch Verlag , Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-88022-345-9
• Language failure. Essay. Droschl, Graz 2002, ISBN 978-3-85420-593-7

Translations

• Ernesto Grassi : The unheard-of metaphor . Athenaeum Verlag , 1992 ISBN 3-445-08569-2
• Pier Paolo Pasolini : Travels in 1001 Nights. Corso Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 3-86260-013-0
• Pier Paolo Pasolini: Africa, last hope. Corso, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 3-86260-032-7
• Giovanni Cocco, Amneris Magella: The dead of the Villa Cappelletti. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-23398-2
• Pinar Selek : Because they are Armenians. (Parce qu'ils sont Armeniens) Orlanda Verlag , Berlin 2015, ISBN 3-944666-18-6

Web links

Commons : Dorothea Dieckmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Dorothea Dieckmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Dorothea Dieckmann at perlentaucher.de
• Dorothea Dieckmann's homepage
• The author at Digitab - Tableau for the present
• The author at Corso Verlag
• Tim Mohr, Translator: Guantanamo (English) , Publishers Weekly . Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. 

German reviews of Guantánamo

• FAZ
• The time
• FR
• Friday

Individual evidence

1. ↑ full text of the reading http://archiv.bachmannpreis.orf.at/bachmannpreisv2/bachmannpreis/texte/stories/13392/index.html
2. ↑ Critique of the novel Damen und Herren : Baumgart in der Zeit: http://www.zeit.de/2002/21/200221_l-dieckmann_xml/komplettansicht  ; Friday: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/erinnerung-an-ein-anderes
3. ↑ Reviews of the novel Termini : Overview: literary criticism ; ÖRF: http://oe1.orf.at/artikel/215485  ; DLF: http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/philippika-gegen-die-schnelllebigkeit.700.de.html?dram:article_id=84418
4. ↑ Reviews of Harzreise : Frankfurter Rundschau , FAZ
5. ↑ International reviews of Guantánamo : The Guardian ; The Daily Star , Lebanon: Daily Star  ; The Quarterly Conversation ; The L Magazine ; The New Yorker's magazine ; Rain taxi
6. ^ Collection of Italian reviews on Guantánamo : http://www.oblique.it/images/fuoricollana/rassegna/guantanamo_rassegna.pdf
7. ↑ ORF
8. ↑ Lecture series of the TU Dresden on the topic of human rights
9. ↑ Sett Festival
10. ↑ Hamburg resident becomes new city clerk Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 5, 2009
11. ^ Salzamt Linz ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ http://www.salemartworks.org/salem2salem-2017/#artistsjump ( Memento from July 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive )