Eva Zeller

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Eva Zeller

Eva Zeller , b. Feldhaus , m. Dirks (born January 25, 1923 in Eberswalde ) is a German writer .

Life

Eva Zeller grew up on her grandmother's manor in Görzke . Since the parents' marriage (mother: Elisabeth Feldhaus, née Bertrand; father: Franz Maria Feldhaus , technology historian) divorced in 1924, her mother returned from Eberswalde to Görzke. There she completed school up to the age of 14, then up to the Abitur (1941) in the boarding school in Droyßig near Zeitz .

After studying German and philosophy in Greifswald , Marburg and Berlin , she married the church musician Wolf-Dietrich Dirks in 1944, who disappeared as a soldier in the Russian campaign in early 1945. In March 1945, their daughter Maren was born on the run. From 1947 to 1950 she taught young teachers in Görzke, at the same time she worked as a teacher at the local central school. In 1950 she married the pastor and art historian Reimar Zeller ; In 1951 daughter Susanne was born. Between 1950 and 1956 she lived in Hohenwerbig and Kleinmachnow . In 1956 she left the GDR and went to South West Africa (now Namibia), where her husband looked after the German Protestant community in Swakopmund . In 1958 the twins Cordula and Joachim were born. In 1962 the family returned to the Federal Republic of Germany. She lived in Düsseldorf until 1974 , then in Villingen (Black Forest) and Heidelberg . In 1979 she gave the laudation at the award ceremony of the Georg Büchner Prize to Ernst Meister . She has lived in Berlin since 1998.

In October 2005, a room with memorabilia from Eva Zeller was opened in the museum of the Handwerkerhof in Görzke, the place where she grew up in Fläming.

Eva Zeller published books for young people, novels, short stories, poetry, radio plays and essays. Theodor Fontane , Gottfried Benn and Günter Eich are early literary models . In her first books, she dealt with apartheid politics in what was then South West Africa and the human and social conflicts that arose from it. As a literary chronicler of National Socialism , she wrote about her childhood and youth in the “Third Reich” and also made a name for herself as a stylistically experienced observer of the present. She challenged the traditional distribution of social roles between the sexes. In her spiritual poetry she found a language that opens up new dimensions to the content of words.

Memberships, lectureship

Prizes, awards, grants

Works

Youth books

  • Little heart in Africa. Christian magazine publisher, Berlin-Friedenau, no year 1957.
  • Pitirapo. Christian magazine publisher, Berlin-Friedenau, no year 1958.
  • Amely, Christian Zeitschriftenverlag, Berlin-Friedenau, no year 1958.
  • Small heart in the big world. Christian magazine publisher, Berlin-Dahlem, no year 1959.
  • Andelino and the kudu horn. Oncken, Kassel 1960.
  • The fire salamander. Oncken , Kassel 1961.
  • Detour through the desert. Oncken, Kassel 1962.

Youth magazines

  • Where is Seraphia? (“Silberstern” series.) Oncken, Kassel 1964.
  • Rain shooting. ("Silberstern" series.) Oncken, Kassel 1965.
  • The eye of heaven. ("Silberstern" series.) Oncken, Kassel 1965.
  • The amulet. ("Silberstern" series.) Oncken, Kassel 1966.
  • The trip to Cape Town. ("Silberstern" series.) Oncken, Kassel 1967.
  • The buried barrel. (“Silberstern” series.) Oncken, Kassel 1968.
  • Monsieur Birnboom. (Series “For Quiet Hours”.) Oncken, Kassel 1968.
  • The burning bush. (Series “For Quiet Hours”.) Oncken, Kassel 1968.
  • The find in the attic. ("Silberstern" series.) Oncken, Kassel 1969.
  • Lorettostraße three. ("Silberstern" series.) Oncken, Kassel 1969.

Prose, poetry

  • The magic bill. Stories. DVA, Stuttgart 1966.
  • The jump over the shadow. Novel. DVA, Stuttgart 1967.
  • One morning at the end of May. Ten prosaic readings. DVA, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Say and write. Poems. DVA, Stuttgart 1971.
  • The tower. Stories. DVA, Stuttgart 1973.
  • Stage Fright. Novel. DVA, Stuttgart 1974.
  • Centrifugal force. Poems. DVA, Stuttgart 1975.
  • The main woman. Novel. DVA, Stuttgart 1977.
  • Walk on the water. Selected poems. DVA, Stuttgart 1979.
  • As long as I can think. Novel of a youth. DVA, Stuttgart 1981.
  • Death of whooper swans. Stories. DVA, Stuttgart 1983.
  • Immutable characteristics. Selected stories and poems. Union, Berlin (East) 1983.
  • No and amen. Autobiographical novel. DVA, Stuttgart 1986.
  • Heidelberg novella. DVA, Stuttgart 1988.
  • Rehearsal. Poems. DVA, Stuttgart 1989.
  • The jumping mat. Stories. DVA, Stuttgart 1991.
  • Eva Zeller. Poetry and prose. Commissioned by the Literary Society (Scheffelbund) Karlsruhe. Selection and epilogue by Karl Foldenauer. Literary Society Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 1992.
  • A stone from David's shepherd's bag. Poems. Herder, Freiburg a. a. 1992.
  • The Lutherin. Searching for traces of Katharina von Bora. DVA, Stuttgart 1996.
  • The sealed manuscript. Novel. DVA, Stuttgart 1998.
  • Thirty words for love. Stories. DVA, Stuttgart / Munich 2002.
  • Outrageous luck. New poems. Radius, Stuttgart 2006.
  • As for me. Poems and ballads. Sankt Michaelsbund, Munich 2011.
  • Hallelujah in minor. Poems. Athena-Verlag, edition exemplum, Oberhausen 2013.

Editorships, literary historical texts

  • Generations. Thirty German years. Edited by Eva Zeller. DVA, Stuttgart 1972.
  • I've lived long enough with the hater of peace. Edited by Eva Zeller, Leszek Kolakowski. Verlag am Eschenbach, Eschbach / Markgräferland 1981.
  • The word and the words. Tradition and Modernity in Spiritual Poetry. Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, Treatises of the Class of Literature, born in 1990, No. 3. Steiner, Stuttgart 1990.
  • The kid I was in. Poems and stories about childhood. Edited by Irma Hildebrandt, Eva Zeller. Fischer, Frankfurt 1991.
  • The autobiography. Self-knowledge - self-exposure. Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, Treatises of the Class of Literature, 1995, No. 2. Steiner, Stuttgart 1995.

Voices of literary criticism

"What is said, is said without tremolo, without talkativeness (...) An aristocracy of speech treatment which is rare where the attitude and punch line are in demand." (André Bogaert on the volume Der Turmbau. In: La Nouvelle Revue des Deux Mondes March 1973)

"With the story of her childhood and youth, Eva Zeller raised her ambitions proustically, and it is immediately noticeable that such a historical and poetic reawakening of the forgotten and buried was highly successful." (Werner Roos on the novel Solange I can think. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. October 14, 1981)

“Emile Zola's demand that the author should not judge, but rather establish facts, and that he should take notes, seems to be forgotten. Such writing technique, which passes judgment on the reader, also determines those stories of Eva Zeller (...) whose actions and characters are localized in this country. However, the perspective of life of a writer who refuses the judge's office must by no means be indifferent or devoid of point of view. ” (Walter Hinck on the volume Death of Whooper Swans. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 29, 1983)

“(...) her evocative poems are among the best that contemporary German poetry has to offer. Zeller does not get involved in fashionable showmanship. She also passed this' rehearsal '' brilliantly. ” (Ernst R. Hauschka on the volume Stellprobe. In: Die neue Bücherei. 1/1990)

"Let's put it bluntly: This book is the actual literary event of the Luther year 1996. Zeller writes a calm, clear prose, and yet you can feel constant excitement between the sentences, a fear for Katharina von Bora, whose interior she carefully traces. as far as their 'search for clues' allows. “Find, not invent” is Zeller's motto. Powerful sentences here too, but far from any berserk attitude. ” ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung of June 20, 1996 about the book Die Lutherin. )

"In her descriptions of those who fail, which contradict conventional ideas, she ironically reveals the complexity of human existence." (Gero von Wilpert (ed.): Lexikon der Weltliteratur. Volume 2. dtv, Munich 1997, p. 1665)

“At the end of our century, Eva Zeller wrote an important and moving book that talks about the worst years of this very secular area and how they continue to have an effect up to the present day. (…) In every respect a book against forgetting, written with the knowledge of the weight of language. ” (Joachim Burkhardt on the novel Das versiegelte Manuskript. In: Der Tagesspiegel. December 6, 1998)

“All poets create - some more imagined, others more experienced. Eva Zeller does the latter. Everything she writes is biography, visited, remembered, accruing life - especially her own. (...) The historian has to stay out of what he researches. The poet sharpens his awareness of the part he has in it. Anyone who reproduces their own life behaves as a know-it-all: 'By avoiding the lie of invention, he succumbs to the lie of memory', writes Eva Zeller in 'As long as I can think'. " (Hartmut von Hentig on the eightieth birthday of Eva Zeller . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 25, 2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ member entry of Eva Zeller at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 06.11.17
personal data
SURNAME Zeller, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Eberswalde