Fred Viebahn

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Fred Viebahn (born April 16, 1947 in Gummersbach ) is a German writer .

Life

Fred Viebahn is the son of a tax officer. He attended the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gymnasium Köln-Mülheim , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1966. From 1966 to 1971 he studied psychology, German, theater studies and philosophy at the University of Cologne . During these years Viebahn began to write journalistic articles for newspapers, magazines and radio stations. From 1970 he lived as a freelance writer and journalist in Castrop-Rauxel, where he was also active with the Young Socialists (from 1971 to 1973 as chairman of the city association and on the Juso board of the SPD sub-district of Dortmund). In 1973 he went to West Berlin. From 1974 to 1976 he was a member of the federal executive committee of the Association of German Writers in the printing and paper industry union (today the United Services Union ver.di ).

From 1975 Viebahn traveled several times to the United States as a representative of various committees . In 1976 he received a Fulbright scholarship to an international writing college at the University of Iowa in Iowa City , where he met his future wife. In 1977 he was visiting professor for German studies at the University of Texas in Austin (Texas) and from 1977 to 1979 at Oberlin College in Oberlin (Ohio) . In 1979 he married the African American writer Rita Dove . In 1981 they moved to Tempe, Arizona , where their daughter was born in 1983. Viebahn and Rita Dove have lived in Charlottesville ( Virginia ) since 1989 .

Fred Viebahn is the author of (partly autobiographical) prose and poetry as well as radio plays and plays.

In 1973 he received the advancement award for literature from the city of Cologne , in 1976 a Villa Massimo scholarship and in 1979 a Mishkenot Sha'ananim guest residence of the city of Jerusalem.

Fred Viebahn has been a member of the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad since 1981 and has been a board member since 2005. Viebahn is part of the editorial staff of the literary magazine Matrix and has been the author of the journalist blog The Axis of the Good since 2007 .

Works

  • The attempted breakout , novella. Hermit press, Stierstadt im Taunus 1967.
  • Experiences . Tsamas Verlag, Villingen 1968.
  • Buttonhole ethos . New Rabenpresse, Berlin 1968.
  • The black pigeons or guitars don't shoot . Merlin Verlag, Hamburg 1969.
  • The House of Che, or Years of Turmoil . Merlin Verlag, Hamburg 1973.
  • Larissa or the love of socialism . Braun Verlag, Leverkusen 1976.
  • Blood sisters , play. Merlin Verlag, Hamburg 1976.
  • The shackles of freedom . Braun Verlag, Cologne 1979.

Translations

  • Rita Dove : The glass forehead of the present , Heiderhoff Verlag, Eisingen 1989.
  • Rita Dove: The darker face of the earth . Play. 2002. PDF

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author profile and articles by Fred Viebahn on the axis of the good .
personal data
SURNAME Viebahn, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach