Gertrud Seehaus

Gertrud Seehaus (born December 2, 1934 in Merzig ) is a German writer.

Life

After graduating from high school, Gertrud Seehaus first turned to acting, studied theater studies and worked in the 1960s as a dramaturge and speaker at Westdeutscher Rundfunk and as a freelancer for Deutsche Welle . Towards the end of the sixties she began studying pedagogy, worked from 1968 to 1978 as a primary and secondary school teacher in North Rhine-Westphalia and, after leaving school, was co-founder of the nationwide model experiment “Artists and Students”. She lived in Jerusalem for six years in the 1980s, traveling through Lebanon , Egypt and Jordan . In 1984 she published her debut novel Lisa and Anatol with Zsolnay-Verlag, Vienna.

Gertrud Seehaus is a member of the PEN Center Germany , the Varnhagen Society , which is dedicated to Rahel Varnhagens, and the Else Lasker Student Society . She is co-initiator of the Artikel 19 publishing house and is listed as co-editor of the novel Die satanischen Verse by Salman Rushdie in its German first edition.

Gertrud Seehaus has been married to the journalist and author Peter Finkelgruen since 1978 and lives and works as a freelance writer in Cologne .

Works

Novels and short stories

• Lisa and Anatol , Roman, Zsolnay, Vienna, 1984
• Cat singing and donkey scream , stories, Nagel & Kimche, Zurich, 1985
• Greetings to Ivan B. , Roman, Nagel & Kimche, Zurich, 1987
• The Giant's Cup , Roman, Gollenstein, Blieskastel, 1996
• Die Lebensliste , Roman, DTV premium, Munich, 2003
• Grandpa and Grandma did not have a bicycle , autobiographical narrative, together with Peter Finkelgruen, BOD, Norderstedt, 2007
• Die Geisterschreiberin , novel, Edition Die Tausend , Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist, September 2008
• Gertrud Seehaus (2017a): Where and how? , Books on Demand, ISBN 978-3-7448-9864-5 Gertrud Seehaus (2017b): Vaterssprache , Books on Demand, ISBN 978-3-7448-3549-7

Plays and radio plays

• Lehmann and Zuckermann , radio play, Hartmann & Stauffacher, Cologne 1990 (produced by RIAS 1990)
• Vita and Virginia , scenic montage and reading, premiere in the Rose Theegarten ensemble, 2000
• Time in the head , drama, world premiere, in the Schiller Theater, Wuppertal, 1996
• Reisefieber , play, world premiere in the Bauturm-Theater, Cologne, 1998
• You must know, we live in Babylon , drama, world premiere in the Freie Werkstatt-Theater, Cologne, 2001 (own direction)

As editor

• Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses , Article 19 Publisher , 1989

Comments and essays

• Thierry Chervel (Ed.): Freedom of speech is life. Letters to Salman Rushdie. The taz campaign, Piper, Munich, 1992

Awards

• 1981: Mackensen sponsorship award
• 1989: Guest of Honor at Villa Massimo
• 1990: Guest of the Jerusalem Foundation (in Mishkenot Sha'ananim )
• 1996: Scholarship from the Heinrich Heine House of the City of Lüneburg

Online texts

• Is literature a men's battlefield? - on the debate about Martin Walser's death of a critic
• Ir Atika - 2 poems
• Saudi Golden Star - Narrative

Reviews of individual works

• Review of greetings to Ivan B. in “Die ZEIT”, October 30, 1987
• Review of grandma and grandpa didn't have a bike on hagalil.com
• Meeting grandpa and grandma didn't have a bike in the Bavarian Reading Forum
• Interview with Gertrud Seehaus
• Homage from Nadine Engelhart to Gertrud Seehaus 80th birthday: http://www.hagalil.com/2014/12/gertrud-seehaus-2/
• Where and how? http://www.hagalil.com/2017/10/seehaus-finkelgruen/

Web links

• Literature by and about Gertrud Seehaus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Gertrud Seehaus