Gisela Kraft

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Gisela Kraft (born June 28, 1936 in Berlin ; † January 5, 2010 in Bad Berka ) was a German writer and literary translator from Turkish .

Life

Gisela Kraft grew up in Berlin. From 1956 to 1959 she completed an acting and eurythmy training in Berlin, Stuttgart and Dornach . From 1960 to 1972 she worked at various theaters. In 1972 she began studying Islamic studies at the Free University of Berlin , which she completed in 1978 with a doctoral thesis on the Turkish poet Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca . From 1978 to 1983 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin. From 1980 to 1982 she was chairwoman of the New Society for Literature in Berlin and was involved in the Peace Movement in the Artists for Peace initiative . In November 1984 the staunch socialist moved to East Berlin. From 1997 she lived in Weimar until she died in 2010 after a long illness during a hospital stay in neighboring Bad Berka.

In her poetry and prose, Gisela Kraft processed the impressions of her travels in the Middle East and her scholarly study of Turkish culture. She has also emerged as a translator from Turkish. For this work she received the Weimar Prize in 2006 and the Christoph Martin Wieland Prize in 2009 for her adaptation of Nâzım Hikmet's Die Namen der Sehnsucht .

Works

  • The crossing of Francis , game text, Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel 1977
  • Fazil Hüsnü Dağlarca - World Creation and Animal Symbolism , dissertation, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1978
  • One Night in Time , Poems, Edition der 2, Berlin 1979
  • The snake memory , fairy tale, Harran Verlag, Berlin 1980
  • What does man live on (after Lev Tolstoy). Game text, Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel 1980
  • Yunus Emre , Pir Sultan Abdal . With mountains with stones - post-poetry and marginal texts , Harran Verlag, Berlin 1981
  • Istanbul miniatures , poems, Eremiten-Presse publishing house, Düsseldorf 1981
  • From the wall divan , poems, Eremiten-Presse publishing house, Düsseldorf 1983
  • Wild boar , stories, LCB editions 73, Berlin 1983
  • Garbage name or On parting with objects , narrative, Eremiten-Presse publishing house, Düsseldorf 1984
  • To the timeless lover , poems, Eremiten-Presse publishing house, Düsseldorf 1985
  • Cat and Dervish , poems, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin & Weimar 1985, expanded edition 1989
  • Deluge , fairy tales and dreams, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Saale 1990
  • Prologue to Novalis , Roman, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin & Weimar 1990
  • West-Eastern Couch - Two Kinds of Sorrows of the Germans , Notes and Treatises, Structure Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 1991
  • Cuneiform writing , poems, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin & Weimar 1992
  • At the time of power asleep , Postpolitisches Fragment, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1994
  • Madonna Suite , romantic novel, Verlag Faber & Faber, Leipzig 1998
  • Prince and Python , story, Eremiten-Presse publishing house, Düsseldorf 2000
  • My fur is black as the night , Katzenverse & Collagen, quartus Verlag, Bucha bei Jena 2001
  • Rundgesang am New Year's morning , A family chronicle, Edition Muschelkalk, Wartburg Verlag, Weimar 2001
  • Matrix , poems, Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 2003
  • Planet Novalis , novel in 7 stations, Verlag Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006
  • From Mother Tonantzin's cookbook , 33 poems, quartus-verlag, Bucha bei Jena 2006
  • Weimar disturbance: poems from the estate , Edition Muschelkalk, vol. 33, ed. by Kai Agthe, Wartburg Verlag, Weimar 2010
  • My country, another - German-German memories , Edition Azur, Dresden 2013

Editing

  • Heinz Kahlau : That you exist makes me happy , Düsseldorf 1982
  • New Berlin in seven languages , Berlin 1983
  • Poetry from the GDR , Düsseldorf 1988

Translations

  • Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca : Bread and Dove , Berlin 1984
  • Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca: Finally come here to Anatolia , Berlin 1981
  • Yunus Emre & Pir Sultan Abdal : With mountains with stones, poems - Dağlar ile taşlar ile , Harran Verlag, Berlin 1981
  • Nâzim Hikmet : Hold on, Leo! , Berlin 1984 (translated together with H. Wilfrid Brands)
  • Nâzim Hikmet: Love a fairy tale , Berlin 1987
  • Nâzim Hikmet: Jackals , Frankfurt am Main 1981
  • Nâzim Hikmet: Unterwegs , Frankfurt am Main 1981
  • Nâzim Hikmet: The Names of Longing , Zurich 2008
  • Marja Krawcec : Ralbitzer Sonntag , Düsseldorf 1993
  • Aziz Nesin : Umgebung , Düsseldorf 1988
  • Vasif Öngören : The kitchen of the rich , Berlin 1980
  • Aras Ören : Germany, a Turkish fairy tale , Düsseldorf 1978
  • Aras Ören: The foreign is also a house , Berlin 1980
  • Aras Ören: In the Middle of the Odyssey , Düsseldorf 1980
  • Aras Ören: Privatexil , Berlin 1977
  • Bekir Yıldız : Southeast Dungeon , Berlin 1987
  • Bekir Yıldız: Topkapi-Harran easy , Berlin 1983

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personal data
SURNAME Kraft, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 2010
Place of death Bad Berka