Draginja Dorpat
Draginja Dorpat ( pseudonym for Sophia Ruth Knaak , also: Sophie Ruth Knaak ; born September 21, 1931 in Ravensburg ) is a German writer .
Life
Draginja Dorpat grew up on Lake Constance . She put in Göppingen the matriculation examination , and then studied political science , philosophy and history at the University of Tübingen , where she also as a research assistant worked. After dropping out of college in 1958, she published the novel Elbow Games in the 1960s . With this book, a moral painting from the Tübingen student milieu, the author achieved a considerable sales success; However, due to its relative freedom of movement, the work was put on the list of writings harmful to young people by the Federal Testing Office .
Draginja Dorpat has written articles for newspapers. After living in Reutlingen for a long time , she now lives in the Swabian Alb . In the 1990s the author published two books on health topics and in 2003 an autobiographical novel about the early post-war years .
Publications
- Elbow games. Merlin, Hamburg 1966, made into a film of the same name by Wolfgang Becker in 1968
- Written on the body. Together with Ali Schindehütte and Arno Waldschmidt , Hamburg 1967
- Young boys at play. Hamburg 1969
- Sophie Ruth Knaak: Neurodermatitis: neither allergy nor atopy. Steyr 1997
- Sophie Ruth Knaak: Have mercy on men. Steyr 1998
- And there were hardly any kisses. Tübingen 2003
- Without sound. Tuebingen 2004
literature
- Forsaken by all fathers . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 2004, p. 148 ( online ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Draginja Dorpat in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dorpat, Draginja |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knaak, Sophia Ruth; Knaak, Sophie Ruth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ravensburg |