Ingeborg Drewitz

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Ingeborg Drewitz (born January 10, 1923 in Berlin as Ingeborg Neubert ; † November 26, 1986 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Ingeborg Drewitz graduated from the Königin-Luise-Schule in Berlin-Friedenau in 1941 and initially worked in a company. She then began studying German , history and philosophy and received her doctorate on April 20, 1945 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University , today's Humboldt University in Berlin, on the poet Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer .

As an author , she was committed to the Enlightenment and dealt with the post-war history of Germany as well as with the social position of women in the past and present. According to Knaur's Lexikon der Weltliteratur (3rd edition 1995) “in her literary work she shapes the abandonment of modern people and their inability to respond to their fellow human beings, as well as the problem of preserving individuality in a standardized life. Her work focuses on the problems of women. ”Her drama All Gates Was Guarded , which premiered in 1955, was the first German play to deal with the conditions in concentration camps. Her most successful novel is Yesterday was Today: Hundred Years of Present (1978), which focuses on three generations of women from the 20th century.

In addition to numerous reading tours through Europe, Africa and the USA, she took a. a. from 1973 to 1980 also held teaching positions at the Institute for Journalism at the Free University of Berlin . In 1981 she wrote the introduction of Gunther Tietz 's volume of poetry, The Defense of the Butterflies . A year before her death, she was still a member of the jury at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt.

Grave of Ingeborg Drewitz in the Zehlendorf cemetery in Berlin

For her literary work, she received the highest awards and posthumous honors .

Born as Ingeborg Neubert, she had been married to her childhood friend Bernhard Drewitz since 1946 and had three daughters with him.

Ingeborg Drewitz died in Berlin in 1986 at the age of 63 of complications from cancer. Her grave is in the Zehlendorf cemetery . By resolution of the Berlin Senate , the last resting place of Ingeborg Drewitz (field 31-W-247) has been dedicated to the State of Berlin as an honorary grave since 1990 . The dedication was extended in 2016 by the usual period of twenty years.

Sociopolitical engagement

She derived her socio-political engagement from her social criticism as an author . In 1966 she was elected chairman of the Association of German Writers (SDS). She was a co-founder of the Association of German Writers (VS) and, with an interruption, was its deputy chairwoman from 1969 to 1980. In this function, she co-founded the Berlin authors 'association Neue Gesellschaft für Literatur in 1973 and organized the first congress of European writers ' associations in Berlin in 1977 . As Vice President of the German PEN Center and VS Chairwoman a. for relaxation within Germany. In doing so, she worked with the board member of the PEN Center, Hanns Werner Schwarze . She was also one of the founders of the PEN Club in Portugal, where she gave lectures on German literature. She was a co-founder of the collecting society Wort (VG Wort) and an author bookstore in Berlin. In 1979 she was a juror at the Third Russell Tribunal in Frankfurt-Harheim, which denounced human rights violations in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Her commitment within Amnesty International and her commitment to literary projects by inmates who, for example, were given special recognition . B. had the chance to be published through their editorial work. In 1985 she contributed to the Evangelical Church Congress in Düsseldorf with exegeses on Pauline texts from the New Testament . Shortly before her death, she joined the evangelically oriented Radius Verlag as a partner.

Two award foundations are named after Ingeborg Drewitz .

Works

Dramas

  • Unio mystica - a game . 1949
  • All gates are guarded . 1955

Radio plays

  • The labyrinth . 1962
  • The man in the ice . 1976 ISBN 3-15-009834-3
  • Radio plays . Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 1977

stories

  • And had no human . Eckart-Verlag, Berlin / Witten 1955
  • Under the sign of the wolves . Sachse & Pohl, Göttingen 1962
  • A strange bride . Stories. Claudius-Verlag, Munich 1968
  • One, the other . Stuttgart: Werner Fee 1976. New edition: Goldmann TB 6386, 1981, ISBN 3-442-06386-8
  • Friedrichstrasse station . Edited by Agnes Hüfner . Claassen, Hildesheim 1992, ISBN 3-546-00021-8

Novels

  • The impetus . Schünemann, Bremen 1958
  • The carousel . Sachse & Pohl, Göttingen 1969
  • October light or a day in autumn . Nymphenburger, Munich 1969. New edition: Fischer TB 5479, Frankf./M. 1983, ISBN 3-596-25749-2
  • Who is defending Katrin Lambert? Stuttgart: Werner Fee 1974. New edition: Fischer TB 1734, Frankf./M. 1976, ISBN 3-596-21734-2
  • The skyscraper . Stuttgart: Werner Fee 1975. New edition: Goldmann TB 3825, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-442-03825-1
  • Ice on the Elbe . Diary novel. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-546-42188-4 . New edition: Goldmann TB 6740, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-442-06740-5
  • Included . Claassen, Düsseldorf 1986. New edition: Goldmann TB 8947, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-442-08947-6

Autobiographical prose

Non-fiction

  • The poetic representation of ethical problems in Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer's work . Univ. Diss., Berlin 1945
  • Berlin salons: society and literature between the Enlightenment and the industrial age . Haude & Spener, Berlin 1965, series of publications: Berlinische Reminiszenzen Volume 7.
  • Adam Kuckhoff's life and work . Friedenauer Presse , Berlin 1968
  • Bettine von Arnim. Romanticism - Revolution - Utopia. Biography. Diederichs, Düsseldorf / Cologne 1969, Claassen, Hildesheim 1992, ISBN 3-546-00025-0
  • Time compression: essays, reviews, portraits; collected from 2 decades . Europaverlag, Vienna / Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-203-50745-5
  • Just before 1984 . Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1981
    New abridged edition: 1984 - at the end of utopias: literature and politics; Essays . Goldmann TB 6699, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-442-06699-9
  • Step-by-step exploration of the world. Travel impressions . Europaverlag, Vienna a. a. 1982, ISBN 3-203-50745-5
  • Under my slow motion . Portraits and panoramas. Europaverlag, Vienna a. a. 1984
  • Young people measure their expectations, and the yardstick is no longer right - the challenge: death . Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-87173-724-0

Editing

  • Cities 1945. Confessions and reports . Diederichs, Düsseldorf / Cologne 1970
  • Literature and its media: determining positions . Diederichs, Düsseldorf a. a. 1972
  • Shadows in the lime: poetry and prose from prison . Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-87173-547-7
  • Hope stories . GTB seven-star, Gütersloh 1979
  • Märkische sagas. Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg. Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Düsseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-424-00658-0 (various later new editions)
  • Courage to give an opinion. Against censored freedom . Fischer TB 4202, Frankf./M. 1980 (Ed. With Wolfhart Eilers)
  • Strauss without chalk: a candidate with historical significance . Rowohlt (rororo Aktuell 4637), Reinbek 1980
  • This is how the wall between man and man grows: Voices from prison and the prison system . Wirtschaftsverlag NW Edition die Horen, Bremerhaven 1980, ISBN 3-88314-115-1
  • Gunther Tietz. Defending the Butterflies. Poetry and prose . Volume 1 of the series: Poetry in the late twentieth century . Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-87173-586-8
  • The destroyed continuity - exile literature and literature of resistance . Europaverlag, Vienna a. a. 1981
  • Requests to speak. German authors and their relationship with the Turks . Ararat, Berlin 1983
  • Sidings . An anthology. Neuer Malik, Kiel 1987

Awards

Posthumous honors

Memorial plaque on the house at Quermatenweg 178 in Berlin-Zehlendorf
The writer Ingeborg Drewitz lived and worked in this house from 1946 until her death. Her Berlin novels, stories and dramatic works deal with the fate of the “little people” and reflect social developments. She was involved in numerous committees for the concerns of writers.

Designations

Award foundations

literature

  • Gerhild Brüggemann Rogers: The novel by Ingeborg Drewitz (Studies in modern German literature, Vol. 26). Lang, New York et al. a. 1989, ISBN 0-8204-0715-1 , 246 pp.
  • Yvonne-Christiane Fischer-Lüder: Pushed to the edge - made a victim - become subject: the development of the female characters in Ingeborg Drewitz's novels . (European University Writings, Volume 1172: Series 1, German Language and Literature). Lang, New York / Bern / Frankfurt am Main / Paris 1990.
  • Titus Häussermann, Bernhard Drewitz (Hrsg.): Ingeborg Drewitz: materials for work and activity . Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1983, 160 p. Completely revised, exp. u. updated 2nd edition Radius 1988. ISBN 3-87173-754-2 .
  • Jutta Rosenkranz: Short portrait of the writer Ingeborg Drewitz . TV documentary for the ORB , 1998.
  • Jutta Rosenkranz: Ingeborg Drewitz - The hard consolation of accuracy. In: Rosenkranz, Jutta: Line by line my paradise. Eminent women writers. 18 portraits. Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-492-30515-0 , pp. 224-240.
  • Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Inge Stephan (ed.): "On the indestructibility of people". Ingeborg Drewitz in the literary and political field of the 50s to 80s. Lang, Bern / Berlin / Bruxelles / Frankfurt am Main / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2005.
  • Heinrich Bleicher-Nagelsmann: Ingeborg Drewitz 1923–1986. In: From the printing association to the unified union. 150 years ver.di . Berlin 2016, pp. 104–105.

Web links

Wikiquote: Ingeborg Drewitz  - Quotes
Commons : Ingeborg Drewitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation by Ingeborg Drewitz: The poetic representation of ethical problems in Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer's work . Diss., Berlin 1945
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Who was Ingeborg Drewitz? ( Memento from May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) District Office Berlin-Mitte , berlin.de
  3. ↑ a b c ingeborg-drewitz-otalschule.de - Reverence of the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Gesamtschule (Gladbeck) to the name giver of the school, incl
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 672.
  5. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) . (PDF, 413 kB) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, p. 17; accessed on March 17, 2019. Recognition and further preservation of graves as honorary graves of the State of Berlin . (PDF, 205 kB). Berlin House of Representatives, printed matter 17/3105 of July 13, 2016, p. 1 and Annex 2, p. 3; accessed on March 17, 2019.
  6. ^ Hanns Werner Schwarze and Ingeborg Drewitz. ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 35 kB) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. () stiftung-aufverarbeitung.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stiftung-aufverarbeitung.de
  7. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.
  8. ^ Premio Minerva 1986 ( Memento from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - the winners from 1986; in Italian online at www.minervariviste.com
  9. ↑ Stadtbibliothek-steglitz-zehlendorf.de - The Berlin City Library Steglitz-Zehlendorf was renamed the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek
  10. ↑ humanistische-union.de (PDF) - The Ingeborg Drewitz Literature Prize for Prisoners "was initiated by the Prisoners 'Initiative Dortmund and the Documentation Center for Prisoners ' Literature at the University of Münster and is now implemented by a broad group of sponsors, who, in addition to the Catholic and Protestant prison chaplains - Conferences, the prison archive at the University of Bremen , the Humanist Union (Landesverband NRW), the Arbeitskreiskritischer Strafvollzug Münster (AKS) e. V. and the Chance e. V. belong. "
  11. ↑ humanistische-union.de - Berliner Landesverband Humanistische Union donates the Ingeborg Drewitz Prize for human dignity
personal data
SURNAME Drewitz, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neubert, Ingeborg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1986
Place of death Berlin