Geno Hartlaub

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Geno Hartlaub ( pseudonym : Muriel Castorp ; born June 7, 1915 as Genoveva Hartlaub in Mannheim ; † March 25, 2007 in Hamburg ) was a German writer.

Life

Geno Hartlaub was the daughter of the art historian and museum director Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub . She grew up in a musical environment and attended the Odenwald School in Heppenheim , where she graduated from high school in 1934. Since her father had been removed from his position as director by the National Socialists because he was politically unpopular, his daughter was refused to study at a university. She completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked as a foreign language correspondent. In 1938 she spent a year in Italy as a student. In 1939 she was conscripted as a military helper . She worked as an assistant in staffs in France and Norway, where she was taken prisoner of war in Norway in 1945, from which she was released after six months.

From 1945 to 1948 she was an editor at the magazine "Die Wandlung" founded by Dolf Sternberger in Heidelberg. She then worked as a freelance editor for various publishing houses. In the 1950s she published the literary estate of her missing brother Felix Hartlaub . From 1962 to 1975 she was an editor at the Deutsche Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt in Hamburg, where she has lived her life ever since.

Hartlaub's work primarily includes novels and stories that are initially shaped by the war and the post-war period, but later also deal with the coexistence of the sexes. Characteristic is the frequent mixing of realistic descriptions of everyday life with descriptions of fairytale-mythical dream worlds. In addition to the narrative work, the author has also written books about her extensive travels and radio plays .

Geno Hartlaub belonged to Group 47 and had been a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1956 , of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg since 1960 and of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt since 1969 .

Awards

In 1988 she received the Alexander Zinn Prize of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Irmgard Heilmann Prize in 1992 and the Biermann Ratjen Medal in 1995 on the occasion of her 80th birthday for her artistic services to the city of Hamburg.

Works

  • The kidnapping , Vienna 1941.
  • Still in a dream. Story of the young Jakob Stellrecht. Hamburg 1943.
  • Anselm, the apprentice , Hamburg 1947.
  • The child robber , Hamburg 1947.
  • The pigeons of San Marco , Frankfurt 1953.
  • The big car , Frankfurt 1954.
  • Calm in front of Concador , Frankfurt 1958.
  • Prisoners of the Night , Hamburg 1961.
  • Mothers and their children , Heidelberg 1962.
  • The moon is thirsty , Hamburg 1963.
  • The queen's sheep , Hamburg 1964.
  • On the way to Samarkand , Hamburg 1965.
  • Not everyone is Odysseus , Hamburg 1967.
  • Guests in the "Stern" , Freiburg 1969.
  • Red also means beautiful , Hamburg 1969.
  • A woman alone in Paris , Witten 1970.
  • Living with sex , Gütersloh 1970 (under the name Muriel Castorp).
  • Local appointment Feenteich , Munich 1972.
  • Who kisses the earth , Munich 1975.
  • Das Gör , Hamburg 1980.
  • Rejoice, you are a woman , Freiburg 1983.
  • The glass crib , Freiburg 1984.
  • Muriel , Bern [a. a.] 1985.
  • Before the rooster crows , Freiburg 1985.
  • The clock of dreams , Bern 1986.
  • One is too many , Hamburg 1989.
  • The man who didn't want to go home , Munich 1995.
Autobiography
  • Jump over the shadow. Places, people, years. Memories and experiences , Scherz, Bern 1984.

Editing

  • Scheherezade tells , Stuttgart 1949.
  • Felix Hartlaub: Seen from below , Stuttgart 1950.
  • Felix Hartlaub: The Complete Works , Frankfurt am Main 1955.
  • Clemens Brentano : Works in One Volume , Hamburg 1964.
  • Our whole life , Munich 1966.

Translations

  • Ugo Betti : In the shadow of the Piera Alta , Bamberg 1951 (translated together with Carl M. Ludwig).
  • Jean Genet : The balcony , Hamburg 1966 (translated together with Georg Schulte-Frohlinde).

literature

  • Asunción Sainz Lerchundi: Realidad y fantasía en la producción narrativa de Geno Hartlaub . Anubar, Zaragoza 1996, ISBN 84-7013-262-8 , series: Textos de filología vol. 4.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 126.
  2. ↑ The title character's name hides a political joke. In the list of the Nazi Reichstag 1933-1945, which had no meaning, "Stellrecht, Dr. Helmut" immediately followed a "Sporrenberg, Jakob". If you pull the two parts of the name of these Nazi figures together, you get Hartlaub's subtitle. - The book was only delivered after the war because of the military situation
personal data
SURNAME Hartlaub, Geno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castorp, Muriel (pseudonym); Hartlaub, Genoveva (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2007
Place of death Hamburg