Hisako Matsubara

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Hisako Matsubara ( Japanese 松原 久 子 Matsubara Hisako ; born May 21, 1935 in Kyoto ) is a Japanese writer who writes primarily in German .

Life

Matsubara is the daughter of a Shinto priest. After the school leaving examination , which she took in Kyoto , she studied at the International Christian University in Tokyo , where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree . She continued her studies at Pennsylvania State University , where she obtained a Master of Arts . Further stations of her studies were Zurich , Marburg and Göttingen ; In 1970 she was at the Ruhr University in Bochum for doctor of philosophy doctorate.

After working as an editor in the United States at the end of the 1950s , she settled in Germany in 1969 and, inspired by her work with Heinrich Heine , began to write her works in German . She worked as a journalist and was first known for essays about Germany and the Germans in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and documentaries for ARD and ZDF . She achieved great sales success with her novels on topics from Japanese history, which have been published since the 1970s. From the mid-1980s, Hisako Matsubara was a researcher at the Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University . She has lived with her family in Los Altos , California, since 1987 .

Matsubara has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 1971 and of the American Art Directors Club since 1985 . For her work she received u. a. 1985 New York Critics Award ; In 1987 she was Writer in Residence at the East West Center in Manoa , Hawaii .

Matsubara is married to the German geophysicist Friedemann Freund . Their son, the physicist Minoru Freund (born 1962), died in 2012 of a brain tumor ( glioblastoma ). The woodcut artist Naoko Matsubara is her sister.

Works

Books

  • The tale of the shining princess , Tokyo 1966
  • View from almond eyes , Munich 1968
  • This-sidedness and transcendence in the Taketori-Monogatari , doctoral thesis Bochum 1970
  • Small world exhibition , Munich 1970
  • Brocade rush , Hamburg 1978
  • Glückspforte , Hamburg 1980
  • Evening crane , Hamburg 1981
  • Way to Japan , Hamburg 1983
  • Bridge arch , Munich [u. a.] 1986
  • Spaceship Japan , Munich [u. a.] 1989
  • Karpfentanz , Munich 1994
  • Sky Sign , Munich 1998

items

Translations

  • The story of the bamboo collector and the girl Kaguya . Ebenhausen near Munich 1968, see also Taketori Monogatari

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary of Minoru Freund (1962-2012) . Physics Today, January 29, 2013
  2. ↑ Willy Huppert: The lucklessly lucky ones from the moon . Die Zeit, No. 50/1969
personal data
SURNAME Matsubara, Hisako
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 松原 久 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto