Irene Dische

Irene Dische (2017)

Irene Dische (born February 13, 1952 in New York ) is a writer with American and Austrian citizenship. She lives in Rhinebeck , New York and Berlin .

Live and act

Dische was born as the daughter of the biochemist Zacharias Dische ( Dische-Probe ) and the biochemist, doctor and forensic pathologist Renate Rother in New York and grew up there. In 1969 the seventeen year old went on a world tour as a hitchhiker. From 1970 to 1972 Dische worked for the paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey in East Africa . On her return she studied at Harvard University and published her first reports in The New Yorker and The Nation . In 1977 Irene Dische moved to Berlin , where she mainly lives next to Rhinebeck , New York . Dische is married to the German defense attorney Nicolas Becker . The couple have two children. Hans Magnus Enzensberger is regarded as a Disches German explorer and patron.

In 1989, Dische first became known to a larger literary audience with the collection of stories published under the title Fromme Lügen . Since then, the stories translated from English have often found their first dissemination, sometimes even exclusively in German. Reinhard Kaiser was often responsible for the translation. In 1990 the story The Doctor Needs a Home followed . In 1993 Dische published her first novel, A Foreign Feeling or Changes About a German . Esterházy , which she published together with Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Michael Sowa (as a draftsman), was Disch's first children's book. In 1986 Dische made her first film, the documentary Zacharias about her father. In 2000 the first crime novel followed with Ein Job .

Disches novel Grandmama Unpacks was printed in sequels in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung at the end of 2005 .

In 1990 she took on the emigrated pianist Anatol Ugorski in Berlin, for whom she opened the way to a later international career. His interpretation of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations inspired her to write the novel A Foreign Feeling .

In 1989 Dische was awarded the German Critics' Prize. In 1991 she was the first to receive the Jeanette Schocken Prize . She is a member of the PEN Club Liechtenstein , a center of the international writers' association PEN

Works

• Pious lies. Seven stories , Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, series Die Other Bibliothek ; Rowohlt Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-499-12852-7 .
• The doctor needs a home , 1990
• A strange feeling or changes about a German , novel, 1993 (translation: Reinhard Kaiser ), ISBN 3-455-40132-5 .
• Esterházy. A hare story , together with Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Michael Sowa , 1993
• The intimate confessions of Oliver Weinstock. True and Fictional Stories , 1994
• The second life of Domenico Scarlatti. A reenactment , 1995
• Between two slices of happiness , (translation: Reinhard Kaiser) 1997
  • New edition: dtv-Taschenbuch, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-62520-3 .
• Ein Job , detective novel, 2000 (translation: Reinhard Kaiser)
• Dangers of Beauty or How to Use Accident Therapy , 2004 (Translation: Reinhard Kaiser)
• Grandmother unpacks , Roman, Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2005 (Translation: Reinhard Kaiser)
  • New edition: dtv-Taschenbuch, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-13521-4 .
• Love. Loves. Stories, 2006; ISBN 3-455-40012-4 .
• The Doctor Needs A Home , Narrative, 2007; ISBN 978-3-455-40084-7 .
• Clarissa's Sensitive Journey , novel, 2009; ISBN 978-3-455-40133-2 .
• American wedding , Roman, Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2015 (translation: Gerhard Henschel), ISBN 978-3-455-40477-7 .
• Black and white , translated by Elisabeth Plessen : Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-455-40477-7 .
• It's never too late to lie . All the stories. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2018. ISBN 978-3-455-00005-4 .

Irene Disches works were u. a. Translated into Danish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Catalan and Spanish.

Film adaptations

• 2008: A Job (TV Movie)

useful information

According to Dische, the autobiographical novel Grandmama Unpacks was originally intended to be entitled The Biography of Irene Dische , with the narrative character of the novel, Disches grandmother Elisabeth Rother, acting as the author. Since this variant proved to be impractical, Dische resorted to a suggested title by Enzensberger, which gave the book its current title.

Web links

Commons : Irene Dische  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Irene Dische in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Irene Dische at perlentaucher.de
• Short biography at the Humanist Press Service
• Publisher information on the author and work at Hoffmann and Campe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The abyss of love . Interview in Büchermenschen 5/2017.