Inge Methfessel

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Inge Methfessel (born September 22, 1924 in Kreibitz / Northern Bohemia ) is a German writer.

Life

Methfessel grew up in Böhmisch Kamnitz (Northern Bohemia, now the Czech Republic). In 1943 she graduated from high school in Tetschen . In 1945 she was expelled from her home country. She studied medicine in Prague and Halle (Saale) and passed her state examination in 1950, after which she moved to the Federal Republic of Germany.

In 1951 she married Siegfried Methfessel, who later became Professor of Experimental Physics . They have five children together. She lived with the family in Switzerland for four years and in the USA for seven years before returning to Germany in 1969. She has lived in Witten since 1972 .

She is a member of the Esslingen Artists ' Guild, the authors' group of the VHS Witten and the Bochum literary society.

Awards (selection)

  • 1984: Prize in the short story competition of the German General Sunday Gazette
  • 1986 and 1990: 1st prize in the storytelling competition Ostdt. Culture Council
  • 1989: Environmental Literature Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1992: Promotion Prize for the Ruhr Area Literature Prize
  • 1993: Sudeten German Culture Prize for Literature
  • Sponsorship award for the NRW culture award for the play The Privy Councilor does the honor
  • 1999: Wilhelm Busch Prize for satirical and humorous poetry
  • 2007: 1st prize from the Esslingen Artists' Guild

Works (selection)

  • Children are lonely . Schweizer Jugend-Verlag, Solothurn 1972, ISBN 3-7260-0000-3 .
  • Coastal landscape. Poems . Bläschke, St. Michael 1980, ISBN 3-7053-1090-9 .
  • Can't rely on love? Youth novel . Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1989, ISBN 3-7709-0680-2 .
  • Not a job for the faint of heart. A babysitting career. Youth novel . Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1990, ISBN 3-7709-0719-1 .
  • Friendship not excluded. Youth novel . Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1991, ISBN 3-7709-0730-2 .
  • A year like none before . Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1992, ISBN 3-7709-1123-7 .
  • Of houses and graves. Narration . Sudetendt. Landsmannschaft, Munich 1993.
  • The Nazis in Hell . Mahnke, Verden / Aller 1993.
  • The girl from the next house . Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1994, ISBN 3-7709-0812-0 .
  • The privy councilor has asked . German Theater Verlag, Weinheim 1995.
  • Love or something like that . Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1995, ISBN 3-7709-0872-4 .
  • Everything Alexander or the school trip to Rome . Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1996, ISBN 3-7709-0879-1 .
  • The future has already started. A comedy . German Theaterverlag, Weinheim 1998, ISBN 3-7695-0672-3 .
  • with E. Kochinke: structures . Klingenfuß, Münster 2000.
  • How do we get rid of Snow White? German Theaterverlag, Weinheim 2000, ISBN 3-7695-1699-0 .
  • with E. Kochinke: Tower residents . Witten 2001.
  • Kasimir coffee house. Play in one act . Theater Verlag Mahnke, Verden 2003.
Radio plays
  • The general's speech . BR, Munich 1982.
  • Waiting for the postman . WDR, Cologne 1986.
  • Over the wall, over the abyss . WDR, Cologne 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Janssen: Literature Atlas NRW . Published by the Literature Council North Rhine-Westphalia eV, Volksblatt Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-923243-96-0 , p. 335.
personal data
SURNAME Methfessel, Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Kreibitz , Northern Bohemia