Gabriele Goettle

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Gabriele Goettle (born May 31, 1946 in Aschaffenburg ) is a German journalist and writer who is known for her reports .

life and work

Gabriele Goettle grew up in Karlsruhe . She studied sculpture , literature , religious studies and art history in Berlin . After she was co-founder of the Berlin anarchist magazine Die Schwarze Botin , she has been providing reports on everyday life in the Federal Republic of Germany since the 1980s, such as for Die Zeit , but mainly for the taz under the monthly departmental title Freibank. Since 1991, reports have been collected irregularly in book form.

Ina Hartwig describes the monologues that can be read in Goethe's contributions as a pastiche of what has been said, literary oral history . In the meantime (1998) Goettle only used her recording device to be able to listen to and practice a specific way of speaking again at home. Then write down what she remembers from the conversation in her own words.

This results in an "original literary form" which, according to Joachim Günther, is "at best comparable to [...] Studs Terkel in the USA". "Your art is to let individual fates be told, to give the individual voice and thus to make the general, the physiognomy of German conditions, comprehensible."

Arno Widmann described the totality of the individual texts of Goethe as “one huge, polyphonic composition” in which “the sound of the Federal Republic” can be heard. He summarized: “She has been portraying people for thirty years, showing us that there is nothing uninteresting, that whoever is irrelevant to the system in which we live could be systemically relevant in another. I thank her for this insight. "

Goettle is a member of the PEN Center Germany . In 1994 Heinz Rudolf Kunze set a story from her book Deutsche Sitten to the song Goethe's Banjo (included on the album Kunze Macht Musik ).

Reception and awards

In 1995 Gabriele Goettle received the Ben Witter Prize , and in 1999 the Schubart Literature Prize of the city of Aalen . In 2002, Hans Magnus Enzensberger gave her the prize money for the Ludwig Börne Prize he had been awarded . In 2012, Lutz Mühlfriedel dedicated a complete program to her and her travels in an unknown everyday life as part of Re-PopSunday on Radio Jena . Frank Schirrmacher celebrated Goettle as “one of the most important literary voices of our time”. In 2015, the German Academy for Language and Poetry awarded her for her “reports by women and men from all areas of society, their professions and vocations, sufferings and passions, the author with a keen sense for the problems of our time, with sharp precision and philanthropy to language brings “the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for literary criticism and essay . She did not accept the prize money of 20,000 euros because it was donated by the pharmaceutical company Merck. Instead, she passed the money on to a pharma-critical initiative.

In the same year she received the Roswitha Prize 2015 from the city of Bad Gandersheim .

Works (selection)

literature

  • Dieter Welz: On Reconnaissance in the Former GDR. Interventionist Strategies of the Narrative in Gabriele Goettle's 'Deutsche Sitten: Erundungen in Ost und West'. In: Kulturstreit - culture of dispute. German Literature since the Wall. Edited by Peter Monteath, Reinhard Alter. Rodopi, Amsterdam, Atlanta, GA 1996, ISBN 90-420-0092-9 , pp. 165-172.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ina Hartwig: “Proletarians, speak” in her volume of essays: The secret compartment is open. About literature. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-029103-5 , pp. 247-258, revised version of an article that first appeared on February 21, 1998 in the supplement Zeit und Bild of the Frankfurter Rundschau .
  2. ^ Joachim Güntner: Autumn conference of the German Academy with Adversity - Nervous Awareness . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 3rd November 2015.
  3. ↑ Arno Widmann: The whole stuff of reality . In: Pearl Divers. November 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ Hans Magnus Enzensberger: There is not a lack of spirit, there is a lack of character. About Ludwig Börne and his descendant Gabriele Goettle. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 3, 2002, p. 41.
  5. ↑ Frank Schirrmacher: From the night prayer of Genoveva Kraus. Gabriele Goethe's explorations in the country and other eerie accounts of life: her prose volume 'Deutsche Sitten' and the essays 'Freibank'. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 8, 1991, literature section, pp. 1 f.
  6. ↑ Merck Prize on the homepage of the German Academy for Language and Poetry
  7. ↑ Spiegel online: Büchner Prize award. October 31, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Goettle, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg , Bavaria