Eva Weissweiler

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Eva-Ruth Weissweiler (born February 14, 1951 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German writer , musicologist and radio author.

Life

Eva Weissweiler entered the state girls' high school in Mönchengladbach in 1961, where she graduated from high school in 1969. She comes from a music-loving merchant family and has two older brothers.

In addition to school lessons, she attended the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne and the Düsseldorf Robert Schumann Conservatory . She was twice the state winner in the Jugend musiziert competition on the concert alto recorder and at the age of 14 made concert tours with this instrument as a soloist, including to England . After brief piano studies at the Cologne University of Music , she enrolled in the 1969/70 winter semester to study musicology, German and Islamic studies at the University of Bonn , where she received her doctorate in 1976. Her dissertation was published under her married name at the time, Eva Perkuhn, which she gave up shortly before the birth of her first child in order to reassume her maiden name, Weissweiler. After graduating, she worked as a radio editor and freelance writer. She has two children. Weissweiler is married to the sculptor and photographer Klaus Kammerichs , with whom she has lived in Cologne for many years. She is the grandmother of two grandchildren.

Eva Weissweiler is the author of biographies, novels, short stories, radio features and documentaries. She wrote articles for almost all German-language stations and texts for the Frankfurter Allgemeine , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Emma and the Kölner Stadtanzeiger . With her research on women composers, she has been one of the pioneers in women's music research since the 1980s. She edited the correspondence between Clara and Robert Schumann as well as Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn . Another focus was on coming to terms with the National Socialist era in musicology, to which she dedicated several documentaries for NDR and WDR . Also the literature of migrants in Germany. On this subject, she and her husband shot 10 author portraits under the motto writers nationality on behalf of the former Ministry of Culture, Urban Development and Sport in North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2016 she has devoted herself primarily to research into German-Jewish women's biographies such as B. Luise Straus-Ernst or Dora Sophie Kellner .

In 1994 she received a work grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1995 a grant from the Kunststiftung NRW .

Eva Weissweiler is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Association of German writers in ver.di . In May 2009, she and a group of 15 authors founded the AURA 09 association (action of independent Rhein-Ruhr authors) in Cologne to promote and stimulate the literary discussion culture in the region. The association was active in the border area between literature and social work and soon made a name for itself in Cologne. Among other things, he was the first literary group in Cologne to recall the works of those colleagues whose estates were destroyed in the collapse of the historical archive of the city of Cologne. As the spokesperson for this association, she and her husband led and initiated writing and photography courses for the mentally ill for years, the results of which have been presented in many exhibitions.

Eva Weissweiler's book The Echo of Your Question - Dora and Walter Benjamin: Biography of a Relationship (Hoffmann and Campe, 2020) was number 1 on the non-fiction best-list of ZDF, ZEIT, and Deutschlandfunk in February 2020.

Works (selection)

  • (under the name Eva-Ruth Perkuhn :) The theories of the Arab influence on European music of the Middle Ages. Diss., Walldorf-Hessen 1976 (Contributions to the Language and Cultural History of the Orient, Vol. 26), ISBN 3-936687-26-9 .
  • Women composers from 500 years: a cultural history in biographies and work examples. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1981, ISBN 3-596-23714-9 .
  • (As editor :) Fanny Mendelssohn, Italian diary . Luchterhand Literaturverlag, 2nd edition Darmstadt 1988 (Frankfurt a. M. 1981), ISBN 3-630-61607-0 . With foreword, portrait, images of notes, notes and register of persons.
  • Women composers from the Middle Ages to the present (= extended new edition by women composers from 500 years ), dtv Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-30726-9 .
  • Clara Schumann. A biography. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-455-08332-3 .
  • Chased by love. Roman, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1993, ISBN 3-548-30325-0 .
  • Monodrama for a pianist. Play, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe 1994.
  • The cellist's son. Roman, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-548-30422-2 .
  • (As editor :) Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn "Music doesn't want to slide without you". Correspondence from 1821 to 1846 . Propylaea Berlin 1997, ISBN 3 549 05528 5 . With foreword and afterword, portraits, overview tables, notes and register of persons.
  • Exterminated! The Lexicon of the Jews in Music and its Murderous Consequences. Dittrich, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2 .
  • Tussy Marx. The father's daughter drama. Biography. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-462-03139-2 .
  • The Freuds. Family biography . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-462-03617-3 .
  • Wilhelm Busch: The laughing pessimist. Biography. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03930-6 .
  • Otto Klemperer: a German-Jewish artist's life. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04179-8 .
  • Heiress of Fire. Friedelind Wagner. A search for clues. Pantheon Verlag 2013, ISBN 3-570-55190-3 .
  • Notre Dame de Dada. Luise Straus-Ernst - the dramatic life of Max Ernst's first wife. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04894-0 .
  • Lady Liberty: The Life of the Youngest Marx Daughter Eleanor. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-455-00292-8 .
  • The echo of your question: Dora and Walter Benjamin - biography of a relationship. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-455-00643-8 . In February 2020, the book was number 1 on the best non-fiction book from Die Zeit , ZDF and Deutschlandfunk .

Editing

  • Fanny Mendelssohn, Italian diary . (Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1981) 2nd edition Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 3-630-61607-0 . With foreword, portrait, images of notes, notes and register of persons.
  • Clara and Robert Schumann: Correspondence. 3 volumes, Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Basel 1984–2001, ISBN 978-3-87877-189-0 .
  • Fanny Mendelssohn: A Portrait in Letters. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-548-30171-1 .
  • Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn: “The music doesn't want to slide without you”. Correspondence 1821–1846 . Ullstein, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-549-05528-5 . With foreword and afterword, portraits, overview tables, notes and register of persons.
  • (with Ulla Lessmann :) Pleasure to read. An anthology. Dittrich, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-23-6 .
  • (with Hidir Celik and Helle Jepsen :) Nationality: Writers Immigrated authors in North Rhine-Westphalia. Free Pen, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-933672-12-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV. In: Eva Ruth Perkuhn: Theories of the Arab influence on European music of the Middle Ages. Diss., Verlag für Orientkunde, Walldorf-Hessen 1976, appendix
  2. ↑ See web link NRW literature on the net
  3. ↑ ZDF non-fiction best list. January 30, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ The best non-fiction book for February 2020
personal data
SURNAME Weissweiler, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weissweiler, Eva-Ruth (full name); Perkuhn, Eva-Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach