Elsemarie Maletzke

Elsemarie Maletzke (born March 17, 1947 in Schotten , Vogelsbergkreis ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Maletzke was born as the daughter of the tenant couple of the mountain restaurant on the Hoherodskopf , the second highest point in the Vogelsberg . She went to elementary school in the neighboring village and spent her youth in Bad Kreuznach . Maletzke took part in the student movement in Frankfurt am Main , was a member of the Frankfurt Women's Council and was committed to the abolition of the criminal liability of Section 218. She became friends with the satirical cartoonists FK Waechter , Hans Traxler , FW Bernstein and the authors Peter (Pit) Knorr , Robert Gernhardt , Eckhard Henscheid , Bernd Eilert , who were members of the New Frankfurt School , and with the writer Wilhelm Genazino . In 1968 she became a journalist in the editorial office of the satirical magazine Pardon . In 1974 she went to Ireland as a German teacher . After her return she worked as an editor for Titanic and later for the Frankfurt city magazine Pflasterstrand . Since the 1980s she has also written articles for Die Zeit , the Frankfurter Rundschau and the women's magazine Brigitte . In the morons , the first volume of Henscheids novel series trilogy of the current imbecility , it was in 1973 as "Miss. Evamaria Czernatzke ”became a literary figure herself.

In the early 1980s, von her published travel guides to Ireland and Dublin , and later her great biographies. She also published literary and cultural studies travel books and travel stories . One of her literary focuses is the study of the English landscape and garden culture . In 1995 her travel book Very British! The Irish Times followed in 1996 . Since 2005 she has also been the editor of the anthology Literary Garden Pleasure . The following volumes were published: 2005 Literary Garden Pleasure , 2006 New Literary Garden Pleasure , 2007 Green Flights and 2008 Rausch und Rache .

In 2013 the Frankfurt publishing house Schöffling & Co. published her first garden thriller Poisonous Green . The second crime novel Magnolia Murder followed in 2020 .

Maletzke achieved particular fame with her great biographies of the Brontë siblings (1989), Jane Austen (1997), George Eliot (1993) and Elizabeth Bowen (2008), which have now become standard works in biography research .

The writer George Eliot describes Maletzke in her biography "in all its ambiguity, with many advantages and strengths, but also essential weaknesses" and places them between conservatism and Victorian belief in progress. In her preoccupation with Jane Austen, Maletzke interprets Jane Austen's work far from all romanticism, but rather emphasizes Austen's literary art as a biting and satirical social critic. In her biography of the Brontë siblings, she brings literary research up to date and at the same time demystifies the previous image.

Elsemarie Maletzke is a member of the PEN Center Germany . In 2009, together with Christian Golusda and Andreas Maier , she received the first Robert Gernhardt Prize from the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art .

Maletzke lives as a freelance journalist and author in the Nordend in Frankfurt am Main . Her books are published by Insel-Verlag (travel literature) and Schöffling-Verlag (biographies & crime stories) in Frankfurt am Main.

Fonts (selection)

• The Life of the Brontes: A Biography. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 1988, ISBN 3-627-10017-4 .
• Jane Austen. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-89561-602-0 .
• George Eliot. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-458-33673-0 .
• Miss Burney wears green. Novel. Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-89561-605-2 .
• Moon over Murzuq - on the move on five continents. Schöffling, 2002 Frankfurt am Main; ISBN 3-89561-608-7 .
• Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-89561-610-5 .
• Very British !: Out and about in England, Ireland, Scotland. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-34879-5 .
• With Jane Austen through England. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-35143-6 .
• Garden happiness. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89561-590-0 .
• together with Christian Golusda: Sturm und Tang. Fifty-five travel poems. Weissbooks Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-940888-66-2 .
• A love in Florence: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Insel, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-35360-7 .
• Poisonous green. A garden thriller. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-89561-598-6 .
• Maud Gonne. A life for Ireland . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-458-17674-9 .
• Magnolia murder. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2020, ISBN 978-3-89561-611-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Elsemarie Maletzke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vita Elsemarie Maletzke Author portrait at Verlag Schöffling & Co.
2. ↑ Elsemarie Maletzke: George Eliot ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Criticism at www.rihla.info  
3. ↑ Absolut Austen ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Review in: We women - The feminist paper on the Internet  
4. ↑ Demystification of the Brontë mania criticism by Ulla Biernet on www.literaturkritik.de
5. ↑ Internet page ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Suhrkamp Verlag  
6. ↑ 100 Frankfurt heads interview with Elsemarie Maletzke