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Ilse Kibgis (born June 3, 1928 as Ilse Tomczak in Gelsenkirchen , † December 17, 2015 ) was a German writer .

Life

Ilse Kibgis came from a family of miners . After attending elementary school , she did a compulsory year in a grocery store from 1941 , after which she was obliged to work in a shoe and mattress factory. After the end of the Second World War she worked as a waitress , cashier and saleswoman , and she also made her first literary attempts. In 1953 she married; the marriage resulted in a son. After she had been resident in Gladbeck for a long time , Kibgis last lived in Gelsenkirchen-Horst .

Kibgis is the author of short stories and poems in which she mainly deals with the common people of the Ruhr area . Her work did not become known to a wider public until the 1970s through the agency of the head of the Gelsenkirchen writing workshop , Josef Büscher .

She was a member of the Association of German Writers and the Gelsenkirchen Authors' group . In 1978 she received a literary scholarship from the city of Gelsenkirchen , in 1983 the Josef Dietzgen Literature Prize , in 1985 a working scholarship from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1988 the authors' prize from the Kohlpott Forum .

Others

Her estate is located in the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World in Dortmund .

Works

  • Where people live , Essen 1977
  • My city is not a hit in travel catalogs , Oberhausen 1984
  • Onlookers , audio book, Ilse Kibgis (poems) and Karl-Heinz Gajewsky (music)
  • Ilse Kibgis reading book . Compiled and with an afterword by Karl-Heinz Gajewsky, Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2017. ISBN 978-3-8498-1222-5

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personal data
SURNAME Kibgis, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tomczak, Ilse (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 2015