Gabriele Böhning

Book premiere, on the Zauberberg: Flowers of the Unexpected 2017

The writer Gabriele Böhning reads from A smile on the horizon (2015)

Gabriele Böhning (born June 20, 1948 in Borgholzhausen ) is a German author specializing in poetry.

Life

Gabriele Böhning at the Freudenstadt Lyriktage (2000)

Growing up in Borgholzhausen , she completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Bielefeld from 1962 . From 1965 she was a member of the opera choir (extra choir) of the Städtische Bühnen Bielefeld. In 1968 she moved to Hofheim am Taunus . From 1984 she worked as a freelancer for the Hofheimer Zeitung in the field of art and culture. In 1987 she was commissioned by the city of Hofheim to collect eyewitness reports about the painter Hanna Bekker vom Rath and the Blue House. She has been working as a freelance writer since 1995 and holds readings across Germany, including a. 2001 at the "Freudenstädter Lyriktage", 1995 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 2004 in Goethehaus in Weimar, 2006 at the "Kurpfälzer Lyriktage" in Schwetzingen, 2007 Mainzer Kulturtelefon. Since 2007 she has been organizing author readings in the Hofheim area with special support for young authors.

She is a member of the Free German Association of Authors.

Works

Gabriele Böhning presents her book Feuervögel at the Frankfurt Book Fair (1995)

• Firebirds . Poems. Scheffler-Verlag, Herdecke 1995, ISBN 3-929885-61-1
• The wanderer's smile . Poems and fables. Scheffler-Verlag, Herdecke 1997, ISBN 3-929885-90-5
• The Hammel envy and others ... . Satire. Fouqué-Verlag, Egelsbach 1998, ISBN 3-8267-4131-5
• Birds in the wind . Poems. Röschnar-Verlag, Linz 1998, ISBN 3-85277-034-3
• In search of paradise . Poems. Verlag Edition L, Hockenheim 2000, ISBN 3-930045-93-1
• Below the Ravensburg . Stories. Epla-Verlag, Ganderkesee 2013, ISBN 978-3-940554-85-7
• A smile on the horizon . Poems. Epla-Verlag, Ganderkesee 2015, ISBN 978-3-945441-10-7
• Flowers of the Unexpected - The Intensity of Life . Poems and prose. Epla-Verlag, Ganderkesee 2017, ISBN 978-3-945441-34-3

Awards

• 1998: Literature Prize from the NASPA Foundation
• 1999: Finalist Wilhelm Busch Prize for satirical and humorous poetry
• 2017: Prize Winner Library of German-Language Poems

literature

• Barbara Helfrich: Boulders and roots provide ideas for poems In: Frankfurter Rundschau, March 27, 1997.
• Christine Sieberhagen: Language must reach people's hearts In: Wiesbadener Kurier, January 10, 2001.
• German writer lexicon . Free German Association of Authors 2001.
• Frankfurt Library: The New Poem . Klaus Schmidt-Macon 2002.
• Da book of poets' manuscripts . Brentano Society, Frankfurt 2003.
• National Library of German-Language Poetry, Vol VI . Realis Verlagsges. 2003.
• FDA Hessen circular . Literary magazine. No. 1/2007.
• Jöran Harders: Glue rhymes as a Trojan horse . In: Frankfurter Rundschau, November 28, 2012.
• Julia Rösch: A new beginning after grief . In: Höchst Kreisblatt, March 2, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mainzer Kulturtelefon ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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3. ↑ Literature evening with regional authors  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Library of German-Language Poems