Dorothea von Törne

Dorothea von Törne (* 1948 in Berlin ) is a German journalist , editor and author .

Life

Dorothea von Törne studied German and English at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She worked as a publisher's editor and literary journalist, including for Neue Zeit and Tagesspiegel , and edited various poetry anthologies. She publishes articles on German-language and international poetry and prose in national and regional newspapers, magazines and literary periodicals. In 2001 she published a biography about the writer Brigitte Reimann under the title Simply really living .

Dorothea von Törne received the 2010 Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism for her life's work - "the persistence of her occupation with poetry, her independent selection and judgment, and her ability to convey poetry with a flexible language" .

She is a member of the PEN Center Germany and lives in Berlin.

Publications

as an author

• Brigitte Reimann - Simply really live. A biography. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7466-1652-2 .

as editor

• Bird stage. Poems in dialogue. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1983.
• Theodor Fontane : Yes, I would still like to experience that. Poems. 2nd edition. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-373-00072-6 (EA 1986; and provided with an afterword).
• Come read, go speak. Poems in dialogue. Union Verlag Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-372-00207-5 .

Awards

• 2010: Alfred Kerr Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neue Zeit , June 25, 1994, p. 14: "Corpses in the cellar" under the knife. At the 18th Ingeborg Bachmann Competition from June 21 to 26 in Klagenfurt, major topics will be dealt with in typical post-turnaround texts .
2. ^ Alfred Kerr Prize 2010 to Dorothea von Törne: "Movable Language for Poetry". In: boersenblatt.net of February 10, 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dorothea von Törne in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography