Gerlind Reinshagen

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Gerlind Reinshagen (born May 4, 1926 in Königsberg , East Prussia , † June 8, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Gerlind Reinshagen graduated from high school in Halberstadt in 1944 and then completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacy assistant. From 1946 to 1949 she studied pharmacy at the Technical University of Braunschweig and then carried out various activities in Halle , Kiel , Halberstadt and Braunschweig. From 1953 to 1956 she studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin , where she lived as a freelance writer from 1956.

Gerlind Reinshagen began her writing career by writing children's books and radio plays . Since 1968 she has appeared with a number of socially critical theater plays staged by directors such as Claus Peymann . Since 1981 Reinshagen has also published narrative prose again .

Gerlind Reinshagen was a member of the Association of German Writers , the PEN Center Germany and the German Academy of Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main . In 1974 she received the Schiller Memorial Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg , in 1977 the Mülheim Dramatist Prize , in 1982 the honorary award of the Andreas Gryphius Prize , in 1988 the Roswitha Medal of the City of Bad Gandersheim , and in 1993 the Ludwig Mülheim Prize for Religious Drama , The Lower Saxony Prize in 1999 and the German Critics' Prize in 2008 .

She died in June 2019 at the age of 93.

Works

various

  • Everything that falls from the sky (youth book. Boje, Stuttgart 1954)
  • Goodbye chewing gum! (Youth book. Erika Klopp, Berlin 1957)
  • Zimperello or the story of Tin (youth book. Hessling, Berlin 1965 / with illustrations by Ingrid Jörg)
  • Rovinato or The Soul of Business (Roman. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1981) ISBN 978-3-518-04032-4
  • The fleeting bride (Roman. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984) ISBN 978-3-518-04704-0
  • Twelve nights (short stories and poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1989) ISBN 978-3-518-40191-0
  • Jäger am Rand der Nacht (Roman. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1993) ISBN 978-3-518-40515-4
  • At the big star (Roman. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996) ISBN 978-3-518-40802-5
  • History of the Gods (Roman. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000) ISBN 978-3-518-41125-4
  • Vom Feuer (Roman. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006) ISBN 978-3-518-41742-3
  • At night (Roman. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011) ISBN 978-3-518-42247-2
  • Hold your breath (Gedichte. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018) ISBN 978-3-518-42799-6

Radio plays

Stage plays

literature

  • Cooperative of German Stage Members (publisher), German Stage Yearbook 2007 , Verlag Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft mbH, Hamburg, 2007, page 866 ISSN  0070-4431
  • Jutta Kiencke-Wagner: The work of Gerlind Reinshagen , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1989
  • Madeleine Herzog: "I am ... not me" , Bielefeld 1995
  • Nan Hussey: Fragmentation and wholeness in the novels of Luisa Josefina Hernandez and Gerlind Reinshagen , Seattle, Wash. 1999
  • Annette Bühler-Dietrich: On the way to the theater , Würzburg 2003
  • Hörnigk, Therese / Kraft, Helga: A world of language - On the work of Gerlind Reinshagen. A critical anthology , Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-934344-70-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 15, 2019
  2. ↑ Gerlind Reinshagen. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 754.
  3. ↑ Dorothea Dieckmann : Gerlind Reinshagen: "Hold your breath" - a declaration of love to tradition , deutschlandfunk.de, August 7, 2018, accessed on June 11, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Reinshagen, Gerlind
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2019
Place of death Berlin