Gabriele Weingartner

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Gabriele Weingartner (born December 2, 1948 in Edenkoben ) is a German journalist and author who prefers to write short stories , novels and essays . After two decades in St. Martin in the south of the Palatinate , she has been living in Berlin since November 2008 .

education and profession

Weingartner spent her school days in boarding schools, including in Frauenchiemsee Abbey and in St. Moritz , Switzerland , until she passed her Abitur at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . Weingartner then studied German and history in Berlin and Cambridge (Massachusetts) .

Weingartner works as a freelance culture journalist and literary critic and is a member of the PEN Center Germany . After numerous literary publications in anthologies , her first novel ( The Snow White Coffin ) was published in 1996 , her second ( Bleiweiß ) in 2000 and her third ( Fräulein Schnitzler ) in 2006 . In 2010 the novel Tanzstrasse was published.

In another book (2004) she and her partner, the artist Volker Heinle, presented nineteen authors from Rhineland-Palatinate in the form of home stories .

Works

Individual publications

Editing

Reviews

  • The poet's melancholy. In the footsteps of Paul Celan's poetry , on Jean Firges : Black Sun Melancholy. Melancholy as a creative and destructive force in the life and poetry of Paul Celan, in Die Rheinpfalz , May 5, 2012

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