Elfi Hartenstein

Elfi Hartenstein (born August 18, 1946 in Starnberg ) is a German writer . She writes novels , short stories , radio plays , non-fiction books and has translated from English .

life and work

Hartenstein was after a study of German literature and history in Bremen as a teacher worked. In addition, she worked for a publishing house for women's literature and was co-editor of the literary magazine Schreib .

Since 1989 she has lived as a freelance writer and translator in Regensburg . She has lectured in German as a lecturer in Romania , Moldova , Ukraine , Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan .

As a literarily ambitious author, Hartenstein has so far not been able to establish herself “in the market”. She is a member of the Association of German Writers .

Recognitions and grants

• 1981: Scholarship for literature from the Hanseatic City of Bremen
• 1984: Littera Medal
• 1991: Translator grant from the German Literature Fund
• 2004: scholarship from Künstlerhof Schreyahn
• Residency grant from the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Newbliss, Ireland .

Works

• Even if my palaces have fallen apart , Frauenliteraturverlag, Bremen 1984, ISBN 3-924588-10-4
• Home against will , publishing group Berg , Berg am See 1991, ISBN 3-921655-74-9
• Jewish women in exile in New York , Edition Ebersbach , Dortmund 1999, ISBN 3-931782-55-7
• Stories with autumn , Lichtung Verlag , Viechtach 2001, ISBN 3-929517-39-6
• Marieluise Fleißer , (together with Annette Hülsenbeck), Edition Ebersbach, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-934703-25-9
• Moldawisches Roulette , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-24431-3

Editing

• All sorts of women , Bremen 1980 (with Denny Hirschbach)
• Happy or not? , Bremen 1980
• Not a reserve, not a wilderness , Bremen 1988
• ... and peeling potatoes at night , Berg am Starnberger See 1992
• German poems about Poland , Frankfurt am Main 1994

Translations

• Olga Grushin: Suchanow sells his soul (original title: The Dream Life of Sukhanov ), Claasen, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-546-00411-4 .
• Marina Lewycka : A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (original title: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian ), Roman. dtv 24557 Premium, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-24557-9 ; as a radio play : by Claudia Kattanek. With Elisabeth Trissenaar , Lena Stolze , Traugott Buhre ; Director: Oliver Sturm , from MDR Leipzig (1 CD, 60 minutes), Hörverlag , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86717-077-2 ; as audio book : an abbreviated reading by Iris Berben , 4 CDs (315 minutes), Random House, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8371-0875-0 (= Brigitte - strong voices ).
• Ellis Peters : The Call of the Nightingale , Munich 2005.
• Patricia Wentworth : The push from the cliff , Munich 2002.
• Peg Grymes: The romantic trap and how women free themselves from it (original title: The Romancetrap ), Edition Ebersbach, Dortmund 1998 (German first edition), ISBN 3-931782-22-0 ; as paperback: Fischer-TB 14698 "The woman in society", Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-14698-4 .
• Melvyn Kinder: Make the most of your moods , Munich 1996.
• Carol Shields : The sweet tyranny of love , Munich 1993.
• Sana Al-Khayyat: Honor and Shame , Munich 1991.

Web links

• Literature by and about Elfi Hartenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Web presence of the author
• Elfi Hartenstein in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )