Irene Ruttmann

Irene Ruttmann (born July 30, 1933 in Dresden ) is a German writer .

Life

Irene Ruttmann was born in Dresden in 1933 and grew up in Chemnitz . She studied German, English, theater studies and art history in Leipzig , East Berlin and Frankfurt am Main . She did her doctorate in Frankfurt and worked as a lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1972 to 1976. Since then she has worked as a freelancer for publishers and broadcasters. She lives in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .

Ruttmann is best known as an author of books for children and young people, including Titus not every day when a Roman boy is transported back to our time. Her first novel was published in 2001: The Ultimatum is about a couple living in East Berlin who, faced with an ultimatum from the Soviet Union, decides to move to West Berlin. In it, Ruttmann draws a generational portrait of post-war youth in the GDR with autobiographical references. She describes the protagonists' increasing fear of a narrowing and provincialization of the country, which ultimately drives them to flee. The book was received very positively by the critics.

Works

• Titus Doesn't Come Every Day (1980), ISBN 3-423-70176-5
• Lavender in Sussex or: Henry Horatio Stubbs , 1984, ISBN 3-928352-15-6
• The Gold Maker (1993), ISBN 3-928352-32-6
• The Ultimatum (2001), ISBN 3-406-47134-X
• Adèle (2015), ISBN 978-3552057388

Web links

• Literature by and about Irene Ruttmann in the catalog of the German National Library