Dorothea Grünzweig

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Dorothea Grünzweig at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014

Dorothea Grünzweig (born December 25, 1952 in Korntal near Stuttgart) is a German writer. She mainly writes poems and essays on literature. She also translates poetry from English and Finnish .

Life

Grünzweig grew up as the daughter of Pastor Fritz Grünzweig with her two siblings in Korntal. She studied German and English in Tübingen and Bangor ( Wales ). She then did research on the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins at Oxford University and worked at the Scottish University of Dundee . She then returned to Germany and worked for seven years as a teacher at a boarding school in Baden-Württemberg.

In 1989 she moved to Finland , where she taught at the German School in Helsinki for nine years . Since 1998 she has been living as a freelance writer and translator in Hausjärvi in southern Finland. She translates poetry from English, Finnish and Vogul and writes essays on literature. In her poems she reflects on life in the far north, evokes landscape, culture and language, including music, e.g. B. those of the organ, the human voice, the sounds of nature.

In 1997 she made her debut with the poetry volume Midsummer Section , for which she received the Poetry Prize of the Lower Saxony Foundation, of which she was a scholarship holder. In addition, she supports young writers, for example at the Wolfenbüttel Literature Laboratory .

Appreciations

Works

Translations
  • Poems from Finland : Eronen, Haavikko, Turkka. Selection, translation and introduction by Dorothea Grünzweig and Gisbert Jänicke. (= Between the lines. No. 17). Basel 1999, ISBN 3-905591-19-7 .
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins : Beloved Child of Language. Poems transcribed and commented on by Dorothea Grünzweig. Edition Rugerup, 2009, ISBN 978-91-89034-21-1 .
  • On the return flight to earth. Gerard Manley Hopkins. An introduction to his poetic world. Audio book. Speaker: Helmut Becker and George J. Low. Lyrik-Kabinett, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-938776-25-4 .
  • Poems from Finland. (= Poetry album special issue). Selection and translation Dorothea Grünzweig, graphic Eero Järnefelt. Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 2014, ISBN 978-3-931329-49-5 .

literature

Sorted chronologically in ascending order

  • Heinrich Detering: Catching votes. To Dorothea Grünzweig's poems, laudation. In: Warmbronn writings. Christian Wagner Prize 2004, Ulrich Keicher Verlag Warmbronn 2004, ISBN 3-938743-08-5 , pp. 10-16.
  • Emily Jeremiah: Shifting Cartographies: Ethical Nomadism and the Poetry of Dorothea Grünzweig. In: Marjorie Gelus, Helga Kraft (Eds.): Women in German Yearbook 2005. Feminist studies in German literature & culture. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2005, pp. 241-259.
  • Emily Jeremiah: Creature Comforts: Nomadic (Bio) Ethics in the Work of Dorothea Grünzweig. In: Christoph Parry (Ed.): "Do you know the country ...?" Wanderlust in literature. Contributions to the 14th International Working Conference “German Research on Literary Text”, Vaasa, 15. – 16. May 2008. Iudicium, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89129-996-8 .
  • Emily Jeremiah: Nomadic Ethics in Contemporary Women's Writing in German: Creature Comforts: Economadism in the Work of Dorothea Grünzweig. Camden House, 2012, ISBN 978-1-57113-536-0 .
  • Verena Nolte: Winter inland. Laudation to Dorothea Grünzweig. With Dorothea Grünzweig's acceptance speech for the Anke Bennholdt Thomsen Prize. In: Sense and Form . Volume 63 (2011), H. 5, pp. 703-711.
  • Axel Helbig: Increasing the quality of vision. Conversation with Dorothea Grünzweig between Dresden and Helsinki in spring and summer 2012. In: Ostragehege . Volume 19 (2012), No. 3, pp. 18-26.
  • Ulrike Draesner: to look home. To Dorothea Grünzweig's poem about finding and losing. In: Poets on poets who hear 246. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1142-8 .
  • Frauke Meyer-Gosau: Bringing darkness to light In: Literatures. No. 113 (autumn 2014), pp. 22–24.
  • Thomas Morawitzky interviews Dorothea Grünzweig: Songs from the land of long nights . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. 19th December 2014.
  • Nico Bleutge: The cat memory. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 3rd February 2015.
  • Andreas Kohm: Sing again about Harmonia Mundi. In: Badische Zeitung. February 14, 2015.
  • Axel Helbig: A language cosmos that grew out of nature. Dorothea Grünzweig's new volume of poetry Kaamos Kosmos. In: Dresdner Latest News . August 10, 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grünzweig: Vita , wallstein-verlag.de, accessed on October 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ Grünzweig: Kurzita , lyrikline.org, accessed on October 5, 2015.
  3. ^ In summer, under apple trees, where organs play and Finland calls. With Dorothea Grünzweig in the far north , bamberger-onlinezeitung.de, article from July 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ Lower Saxony Foundation: Author Support Program, stnds.de, accessed on October 20, 2018.
  5. ^ Literature Labor Wolfenbüttel: Distillate 2017 , stnds.de, pp. 104/105.
  6. ↑ Scholarship holder of the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben , kuenstlerhaus-edenkoben.de, accessed on October 20, 2018.
  7. ↑ Newly seen. PEN award for Dorothea Grünzweig . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 18, 2018, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Green branch, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Korntal