Eva Demski

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Eva Demski (* 12. May 1944 as Eva Katrin Küfner in Regensburg ) is a German writer .

biography

Eva Demski, the daughter of the set designer Rudolf Küfner, spent her childhood in Regensburg, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt am Main . She attended the old-language Lessing grammar school , where she passed the Abitur. From 1964 to 1968 she studied German , art history and philosophy at the Universities of Mainz and Freiburg im Breisgau . She then worked as a dramaturgy assistant at the Schauspiel Frankfurt and as a freelance editor and translator. From 1969 to 1977 she worked for the Hessischer Rundfunk , in particular the culture magazine ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente . From 1967 until his death in 1974 she was married to the defense attorney Reiner Demski. Since 1977 she has lived as a freelance writer in Frankfurt am Main.

Eva Demski was a member of the PEN Center Germany until 1996 , from which she resigned because of the hasty unification of East and West German PEN.

Awards

Works

  • Goldkind , Roman, Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1979, ISBN 978-3-472-86472-1 .
  • Karneval , Roman, Hanser, Munich 1981, ISBN 978-3-446-13444-7 .
  • Scheintod , Roman, Hanser, Munich 1984.
  • Hotel Hölle, good day ... , Roman, Hanser, Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3-446-14992-2 .
  • Megalomania and commitment , speech, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1988.
  • Unterwegs , Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 978-362-710080-3 .
  • Käferchen & Apfel: Small instructions for reading and devouring , Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 978-3-627-10081-0 .
  • A completely different way to the Wartburg. Speech on October 3, 1990, given in the Reichssaal of the City of Regensburg , Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-627-90050-2 .
  • Afra , Roman, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-627100824 .
  • Cat book , with drawings by Tomi Ungerer , Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 978-3-627-70001-0 .
  • Land & people , essays and stories, Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 978-3-895-61000-4 .
  • The sea listens with a thousand ears. Sappho and the island of Lesbos , literary travel guide, Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 978-3-895-61543-6 .
  • The cats of Montmartre , with Ruth Westerwelle, illustrated book, Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1996, ISBN 978-3-875-84592-1 .
  • Venice - Salon of the World , travel report, Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3-895-61546-7 .
  • Das Narrenhaus , Roman, Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-895-61001-1 .
  • Slips of paper dream or “Why shouldn't a person have his secret? Or a diary ”. Frankfurter Vorlesungen, Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-895-61002-8 .
  • Mama Donau , essay, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 978-3-458-34979-2 .
  • The carousel in the English Garden , with Isolde Ohlbaum , illustrated book, Hanser, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-725-41253-2 .
  • Frankfurter Kontraste , with Mirko Krizanovic, illustrated book, Press and Information Office, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-921-60678-0 .
  • About love, wealth, death and make-up , essays, Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-895-61004-2 .
  • The Siamese Village , Roman, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-41740-1 .
  • Garden stories , Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-35703-2 .
  • The Rheingau . Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-50229-9 .
  • Round like the earth: Culinary stories , Insel Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-458-35863-3 (= Insel-Taschenbücher , Volume 4163).
  • Frankfurt is different, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-458-35978-4 .
  • I carry the suitcase myself , memories. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-458-17718-0 .

Editing

  • Else Lasker-Schüler : Your heart is as bright as the night , Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • Margot: Diaries , Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Sylvia Plath : Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1991

Translations

literature

  • About Eva Demski . Footnotes from the work area of ​​modern German literary studies at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, issue 4, Bamberg 1984
  • Sarah Ines Struck: role play between author, text and reader. Aspects of impact and reception, measured against the impact structures and the literary critical reception of the novels 'Scheintod' and 'Hotel Hölle, gute Tag ...' by Eva Demski (Master's thesis Kiel 1997), Hamburg 1997
  • Klaus Makoschey (ed.): Eva Demski, pictures and writings. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the City and University Library Frankfurt am Main, January 12 to February 26, 1999 , Frankfurt am Main 1999

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Demski, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eva Katrin Küfner (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg