Gisela from Wysocki

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Gisela von Wysocki (* 1940 in Berlin ) is a German writer , especially a playwright and essayist.

Life

Gisela von Wysocki, daughter of Georg von Wysocki , who worked as a production manager at various record companies, a. a. for over three decades at Odeon , worked, initially studied musicology and piano in Berlin and mainly occupied himself with the compositions of Sergej Prokofjew , Claude Debussy and Alban Berg . After studying philosophy with Theodor W. Adorno in Frankfurt am Main , she completed her doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on the Viennese poet Peter Altenberg (“Potentials of Subjectivity in Irrationalistic Thinking”, first started with Adorno and later completed with Alfred Schmidt in Frankfurt and published by Hanser Verlag in 1979). She began as an essayist dealing primarily with outsiders of literary modernism. Later followed, in addition to literary criticism, plays and radio plays . She was also a lecturer in theater studies at the University of Giessen and the Free University of Berlin .

Gisela von Wysocki lives in Berlin. She is the sister of the composer and band leader Harald Banter (Gerd von Wysocki).

Works

Books

Plays

  • At the height of the plain . World premiere: Berliner Literaturhaus, 1988 (Director and leading actor: Peter Fitz ).
  • Actor dancer singer . Premiere: Schauspiel Frankfurt, 1989 (direction and set design: Axel Manthey ); Swiss premiere: Theater Basel, 1990 (directors: Veit Volkert and Barbara Mundel ). Further productions: Kampnagel Fabrik, Hamburg, 1991; Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, 1996.
  • The earthquake researcher . WP: Mousonturm (TAT), Frankfurt, 1991.
  • Sights worth seeing. New texts for Claude Debussy's opera fragment "Downfall of the House of Usher" . Premiere: State Opera Stuttgart, 1996 (Conductor: Michael Gielen ; Director: Christof Nel ).
  • Occidental life . Premiere: Schauspielhaus Basel, 1999 (director: Jossi Wieler ); awarded the special prize of the Kranichsteiner Literaturtage and the theater prize of the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation.
  • Foreign stages . Premiere: Theater am Neumarkt, Zurich, 2000 (director: Christian Pade , set design: Alexander Lintl ).
  • The elongated summer . Premiere: Städtische Bühnen, Frankfurt 2001 (Director: Wanka Golonka ).

Radio plays

  • The Human Museum (HR, SFB) 1988
  • Yokohama (NDR) 1989
  • The earthquake researcher (NDR, BR) 1992; Radio Play of the Year 1993 (German Academy of Performing Arts, Frankfurt)
  • Actor dancer singer (NDR, SWF, BR) 1993
  • Wilderness Life (HR, WDR, NDR) 1994; Radio Play of the Month January 1994 (German Academy of Performing Arts, Frankfurt)
  • The sun has never been so close (WDR, SWF) 1994
  • Stone and Ferris Wheel (NDR, WDR, HR) 1995
  • Der Bildersammler (NDR) 1997
  • Two weeks in Vienna (NDR, WDR) 1999
  • Load-bearing walls (DLR Berlin, HR) 2000
  • I take a blue. I take a yellow. Acoustic scenario about Charlotte Salomon (BR, NDR) 2002
  • Laboratory and Mirage. The immoderate human voice (SWR) 2005
  • And nowhere an earth. NDR 2005
  • We make music. The story of a suggestion Hessischer Rundfunk 2006

Essays (selection)

  • Metropolitan Lady. Marlene Dietrich . in The Frosts of Freedom. Syndicate, Frankfurt 1980; again in essays by famous women. Edited by Marlis Gerhardt. Insel, Frankfurt 1997 ISBN 3458336419 pp. 312-320
  • The "unheard of" message of hysteria (Die Zeit, 43/1983)
  • I want to see action and nothing happens. About Hokusai series " ZEIT-Museum der 1000 Bilder", Insel, Frankfurt 1989
  • A face from a strange place. Greta Garbo . A myth in pictures. Schirmer Mosel, 1990
  • The European as a monster. About Bernard-Marie Koltès Die Zeit, 9/1993
  • Transparency instead of opulence. New theater theories (THEATER HEUTE, 2/1995)
  • Noisy heralds of reason. About the French philosopher Michel Serres (Die Zeit, 42/1995)
  • Life, a hectic presence. About Sylvia Plath (Die Zeit, 15/1997)
  • Sarathustra. The future of Sarah Bernhardt . ("Theater Women", Suhrkamp, ​​1998)
  • With the scandal on you and you ("Hexenreden", Wallstein, Göttingen 1999)
  • Distant view: models of remoteness. About Hedy Lamarr . Edition Selene, 1999
  • "The Farmer of Paris" by Louis Aragon . Series: The Book of My Life, special number, 1999
  • Let that eye be an eagle. About Sylvia Plath ("Now I'm breaking into pieces", Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2000)
  • Gifted liar. About Marguerite Duras , in: Literatures (Journal) 3/4, 2001
  • Magic hat. Or surgical equipment. About proximity and distance of the human face (ProLitteris GAZETTA, 2001)
  • Illusions of belonging. Portrait of Charlotte Salomon and her total work of art “ Life? Or theater? "(Die Zeit, 31/2001)
  • People and lightning. On the 100th birthday of Marieluise Fleisser (Die Zeit, 487/2001)
  • Writing and lying. Series: Rituals of Everyday Life, Fischer, Frankfurt 2002
  • Return to the skin. Mimesis and musical 'Espressivo' with Theodor W. Adorno ( Frankfurter Rundschau , March 16, 2002)
  • Body art and future bodies ("On the current disregard for the aesthetic", Universal Edition, 2002)
  • Emissaries of their profession. About the director Axel Manthey (exhibition catalog, Akademie der Künste, 2002)
  • Up and down landscape ("Graz from the outside", Droschl, 2003)
  • Language in a vacuum. Alfred Kerr in the emigration (Die Zeit, 43/2004)
  • Giving a face to thinking. On the 275th birthday of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ("A conversation with Lessing", Wallstein, 2004)
  • The immoderate voice. ("Art Voices", Theater der Zeit, 2004)
  • Actor, dancer, singer. Three characters in the theater ("Theater for the 21st Century", text + kritik , 2004)
  • Into the heart of the fascination. About Jean Starobinski (Die Zeit, 13/2007)
  • Body. Explosive devices. Phenomenological sketch ("Adorno-Portraits", Suhrkamp, ​​2007)
  • Tragedy tricks. About Margurite Duras . Literatures (Journal) 1–2, 2008
  • Russian War of the Roses. Leo Tolstoy and Sofja Tolstaya Literatures (magazine) 11, 2008
  • Heat hardened vision. About Heinrich Leopold (Im Brennspiegel. Verlag, Der Apfel, 2006 )
  • Expulsion of the gods. About the French philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch (Die Zeit, 4/2017)
  • Man points beyond man . Portrait of the French Chinese poet and essayist Francois Cheng
  • Quotes from the unconscious. A great author of the modern age: Mela Hartwig was a pioneer in describing female emotional worlds (DIE ZEIT, 9/2019)

Awards

Gisela von Wysocki received the Theater Prize of the Frankfurt Authors ' Foundation in 1986 , the Radio Play Prize of the German Academy of Performing Arts in 1992 and 1993 and the Roswitha Prize of the City of Bad Gandersheim in 1996 , the special prize of the Kranichsteiner Literaturtage and in 2011 the Düsseldorf Literature Prize (awarded by the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf ). In 2014 she received one of seventeen working grants for writers from the Berlin Senate's cultural administration and in 2017 the Heinrich Mann Prize for essay writing from the Berlin Academy of the Arts. In 2020 she will be awarded the honorary gift of the German Schiller Foundation.

literature

  • Petra Waschescio: Criticism of Reason and Criticism of Patriarchy. Bielefeld 1994.
  • Markus Monninger: Gisela von Wysocki. Biogram. In: Critical Lexicon for Contemporary German Literature. edition text and criticism.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela von Wysocki: The European as a monster. Son of an officer irrationalist, author, director and underworld: Bernard-Marie Koltes and his novel “Prolog” . In: Die Zeit , February 26, 1993 No. 09.
  2. ↑ "About the Beauty of the Soul" , Die Zeit 12/2018 of March 19, 2018, accessed June 24, 2019
  3. ↑ Working grants for writers awarded in 2014. Berlin.de, April 16, 2014, accessed April 26, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Gisela von Wysocki and Kerstin Preiwuss awarded. In: tagesspiegel.de. November 14, 2019, accessed November 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wysocki, Gisela from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin