Helga Lippelt
Helga Lippelt (born September 26, 1943 in Insterburg ) is a German writer .
Life
Helga Lippelt was born in Insterburg in East Prussia in 1943 . After being expelled from East Prussia at the end of the war, she grew up with mother and grandmother in the small Saxon town of Penig. Her father, the writer Max Lippold, died in 1946 in Soviet captivity.
After high school and textile printer apprenticeship, she completed a degree at the engineering school for textile technology in Reichenbach / Vogtland and worked as a textile engineer in a project planning office in Leipzig until 1979. Four years after submitting her application to leave the country, she was “released” from her GDR citizenship and moved to the Federal Republic in 1980. She moved to Düsseldorf, where she has lived as a freelance writer since 1983.
Helga Lippelt is the author of novels, short stories and poems. She became best known for her novels about the fate of the inhabitants of the East Prussian village of Popelken before and after the expulsion in 1945.
Helga Lippelt is a member of the Association of German Writers.
Works
- Jeans for a Gliedermann , Roman, Erb Verlag, Düsseldorf 1984. ISBN 3-88458-069-8 (paperback edition by Moewig Verlag, Rastatt 1987, ISBN 3-8118-2512-7 )
- Good bye Leipzig , Roman, Erb Verlag, Düsseldorf 1985. ISBN 3-88458-088-4
- Without a tower and ivory. Experiences of a city clerk , Erb Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986. ISBN 3-88458-113-9
- Embryo , short stories, Verlag an der Este, Buxtehude 1988. ISBN 3-926616-97-0
- Popelken , Roman, Verlag an der Este, Buxtehude 1988. ISBN 3-926616-98-9
- Trabbi, salt and free green , Verlag an der Este, Buxtehude 1990. ISBN 3-926616-93-8
- The taste of freedom. A love case , novel, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle and Leipzig 1991. ISBN 3-354-00719-2
- Farewell to Popelken or a breath of time , novel, Herbig Verlag, Munich 1994. ISBN 3-7766-1839-6 (licensed edition Gütersloh 2011)
- Eat or love. Novel of a lustful transformation , novel, Herbig Verlag, Munich 1996. ISBN 3-7766-1946-5
- And the man beckons forever , Roman, Herbig Verlag, Munich 1998. ISBN 978-3-7766-2052-8
- Fern von Popelken , Roman, Verlag Heiligenwalde, Unna 2003. ISBN 3-9807185-3-0
Awards
- 1982: Prize at the 2nd NRW authors' meeting
- 1983: Prize at the storytelling competition of the East German Cultural Council
- 1983: Culture Prize of the City of Bocholt, with the appointment of "city literary" for 1984 to 1985
- 1984: Prize for Literature from the State Capital Düsseldorf
- 1987: Andreas-Gryphius-Förderpreis der Künstlergilde
- 1988: Scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation
- 1999: Literature grant from the state capital Stuttgart
- 1989: Würzburg Literature Prize
- 1989: Scholarship in the artist village Schöppingen
- 1990: Border clerk in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- 1992: Town clerk of Otterndorf / North Sea
- 1993: Scholarship in the Cismar Monastery / Ostholstein
- 1994: Amsterdam Scholarship
- 1994: Culture Prize of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft
Web links
- Literature by and about Helga Lippelt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Helga Lippelt on NRW Literature on the Net
- Helga Lippelt in the Frauenkulturarchiv ( Memento from August 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helga Lippelt. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 639, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
- ↑ Helga Lippelt in: Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lippelt, Helga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Insterburg |