Friederike Roth

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Friederike Roth (born April 6, 1948 in Sindelfingen ) is a German writer .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Friederike Roth studied philosophy and linguistics at the University of Stuttgart . 1975 doctorate them to the doctor of philosophy. From 1976 to 1979 she was a lecturer in anthropology and sociology at the Fachhochschule für Sozialwesen in Esslingen am Neckar . Since 1979 she has been working as an audio dramaturg at Süddeutscher Rundfunk (today: Südwestrundfunk ) in Stuttgart . Friederike Roth writes poetry , prose , plays and radio plays . Her work, which often deals with the themes of love and death, is influenced by Roth's scholarly study of language. Since the 1980s, the author has been increasingly skeptical of the mechanisms of the literary business. Friederike Roth is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Fidelio

For the Bonn production of Fidelio (premiere: September 2005), Friederike Roth wrote new interim texts that replace the "classic" interim texts by Joseph Ferdinand von Sonnleithner and Georg Friedrich Treitschke . The author problematizes the basic contents of the opera.

Single track

• Minimal-Erzählungen , Stuttgart 1970 (together with Gabbo Mateen)
• Semiotic analysis of the aesthetic investigations Georg Simmels , Stuttgart 1975 (under the name Friederike Schnepp-Roth)
• Belladonna wedding , Darmstadt [u. a.] 1978
• Dreams of order , Darmstadt [u. a.] 1979
• Safe luck , Leonberg 1979
• Piano games , Stuttgart 1980
• Sheer luck , Darmstadt [a. a.] 1980
• The ride on the Wartburg , Frankfurt am Main 1981
• The book of life , Darmstadt
  • Episode 1. Love and Forest , 1983
• Toad Fountain , Frankfurt am Main 1984
• The only story , Frankfurt am Main 1985
• The whole thing , Frankfurt am Main 1986
• Shady gardens , Frankfurt am Main 1987
• Inheriting and dying , Frankfurt am Main 1992
• Wiese und Macht , Frankfurt am Main 1993
• The Jealousy of the Pharaohs , One Piece, Berlin 2009
• Abendlandnovelle , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-518-42176-5
• Death dance - life dance , world premiere on October 27, 2011 in the Theater in der Josefstadt

Release

• Eduard Mörike : Wispel , Berlin 1994
• Yearbook of Poetry (with Christoph Buchwald), Darmstadt 1988

translation

• Dorothy Parker : Close harmony or Die liebe Familie , Frankfurt am Main 1989
• Dorothy Parker : Ladies in the Hotel , Zurich 1989
• Sylvia Plath : Three women , Frankfurt am Main 1991
• Charles S. Peirce : Graphs and Signs , Stuttgart 1971
• Arnold Wesker : Annie Wobbler , Frankfurt am Main 1984

Awards

• 1977 Leonce and Lena Prize
• 1981 Villa Massimo scholarship
• 1982 Literature Prize of the City of Stuttgart
• 1983 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and Gerhart Hauptmann Prize
• 1984 City Clerk of Bergen
• 1985 Radio Play Prize of the War Blind
• 1993 German Critics' Prize
• 2013 Gert Jonke Prize , together with Händl Klaus

literature

• Lisa Hottong: The language is a labyrinth of paths , Tübingen [u. a.] 1994
• Rosalinde Girtler: Feminist social criticism in Friederike Roth's dramas "Ritt auf die Wartburg", "Toad Fountain", "The Single Story", "The Whole One Piece" and "Erben und Dieben" , Columbus, Ohio 1995
• Annabella Beyer: On the Drama Aesthetics Friederike Roths , Kiel 1998

Web links

• Literature by and about Friederike Roth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friederike Roth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Friederike Roth in the Bergen-Enkheim town clerk archive