Hanna Leybrand

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Hanna Leybrand (2014)

Hanna Leybrand (born July 15, 1945 in Passau ; † May 25, 2017 in Heidelberg ) was a German writer , reciter and opera soubrette .

Life

After attending the humanistic grammar school Leopoldinum in her hometown, Leybrand studied Romance studies, Latin studies and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg. She trained in singing in Heidelberg and Mannheim. After numerous publications in daily newspapers, magazines and anthologies, her first volume of poetry was published in 2003 by Manutius Verlag Heidelberg. Leybrand was the curator for literature at the Rhein-Neckarkreis cultural foundation.

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Leybrand's poems thrive on the musicality of their language and the variation in speech forms and punch lines. The genre entry of the first volume “Poems not only from love” provides a working motto for her further literary work. Through intertextual allusions and reminiscences, also parodies and counterfactures , multilayered levels of meaning arise. In addition to some German-speaking poets (such as Ingeborg Bachmann ), Hanna Leybrand was moved and partly influenced by great poets from Romania (including Rafael Alberti ).


NOT SURE

It's not safe brother

that we find each other

we are looking for

that we see each other

when we meet

that we recognize each other

when we love each other

that we recognize each other

the next day


While the early narratives present pointed literary miniatures, but also more extensive narrative texts, the more recent work Sebastian from the book Das Nest or the erotic double novel Tigerkisses , for example, tend towards complex narrative large forms. Characteristic of Leybrand are precise descriptions of landscapes, haunting everyday observations, her tragic-comical, sometimes bizarre figures, and not least her key questions about the reasons and abysses of happiness.

Books

Published by Manutius Verlag:

  • Get rid of dreams. Poems not only about love, Heidelberg 2003
  • The chaos researcher. Stories & short prose, Heidelberg 2005
  • The Black Forest shaman. Stories & short prose, Heidelberg 2006
  • Days in white and blue. Poems, Heidelberg 2007
  • The nest. New Prose - New Poetry, Heidelberg 2011
  • Tiger kisses. Two little novels, Heidelberg 2014
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann : threads in the labyrinth. Literary forays 1984-2004, ed. by Jost Eickmeyer and Hanna Leybrand, Heidelberg 2009

Awards

  • 1995, Prize of the International Poetry Competition (“Diploma di merito speciale”) in Benevento / Italy
  • 2001, second place at the Mannheim Literature Prize for Poetry

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kühlmann: In the first row of post-war poetry (obituary). In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung. June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Hanna Leybrand. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 602.
  3. ↑ Heidelberg City Library [1]
  4. ↑ Walter Hinck: Love is Trumps FAZ from February 20, 2008
  5. ↑ Hans-Peter Ecker: Rez. Abolishes the dreams, in: Dt. Books 33 (2003), pp. 211-217.
  6. ↑ See Ralf Georg Czapla: Leybrand, Hanna, in: Killy Literaturlexikon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area, 2nd edition, Berlin / New York 2010, Vol. 7, Sp. 391
  7. ↑ Hanna Leybrand: Not sure, in: Ab Ab Ab Ab Abr Träume, Heidelberg 2003
  8. ↑ See Karin Tebben: Rez. Tigerküsse, in: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung 15./16. November 2014
personal data
SURNAME Leybrand, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, reciter and singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2017
Place of death Heidelberg