Irma Hildebrandt

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Irma Hildebrandt

Irma Hildebrandt (born June 17, 1935 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss writer. In addition to biographies and essays, she writes short prose, poetry and radio plays.

Life

Born on June 17, 1935 in Hergiswil / Switzerland , Irma Hildebrandt, nee. Bucher, in Lucerne. After training as a teacher at the Lucerne seminar, she studied German (with Emil Staiger, among others ) and Romance languages ​​in Zurich. After marrying Helmut Thor Laux, lecturer at the Pan-European Studienwerk Vlotho, she moved to Northern Germany. As a mother of four children (born between 1958 and 1963), she was involved in school and extracurricular educational work and helped set up the youth art school Vlotho; from 1980 to 1985 she was first chairwoman, for many years she headed the children's theater group, for which she also wrote plays. After the death of her husband, she studied German literature, sociology and theater education at Bielefeld University . In 1977 she married the sociologist Walter Hildebrandt , with whom she also wrote two books together. She has been living in Switzerland again since 2007.

Create

Irma Hildebrandt has been a journalist since 1979. From 1983 to 2020 she was the editor in charge of the magazine “Frau und Kultur”. As a member of the writers' association PEN , the European authors' association Die Kogge eV and the artists' association GEDOK , she was active as a federal advisory council and literature prize juror from 1986 to 1996. The author and editor lived in Vlotho an der Weser from 1957 to 2006, and in Lucerne since 2007. There she is a member of the Central Switzerland writers' association ISSV. In addition to biographies and essays, she writes short prose, poetry and radio plays. Several non-fiction books, selected biographies and some volumes of poetry have been translated into Spanish, French, English and Japanese; she received various awards for short prose and poetry.

Awards

  • 1986: 1st Tuttlinger Literature Prize
  • 1989: IVG Journalist Prize, Cologne (for short stories)
  • 1990: Lucerne work contribution (for the poetry book Curtidas Pieles de Aňos / Tanned Annual Skins )
  • 1991: 1st EC Women's Poetry Prize, Luxembourg
  • 1992: Award from the Westphalian Literature Office Detmold (poems on the work of Philipp Nicolais )
  • 1995: Poetry Prize of the II Concorso Internazionale di Poesia, Sannio / Italy (Diploma di Merito Speciale)
  • 1997: Narrative Award of the East German Cultural Council, Bonn (short story Das Holzpferdchen, published in: Kulturpolitische Korrespondenz 65–97)
  • 1999: Poetry Prize of the Rauner Foundation Bochum (for the collection of poems courtyards )
  • 2009: Literature Prize, 11th Bern Poetry Competition (poem rehearsal , in: Stauffacher Buchhandlungen)
  • 2015: ISSV Short Stories Competition (Entry: 1943 in the Gray House , published in: “Yesterday. Childhood in Central Switzerland”)
  • 2017: Award "600 years of Niklaus von Flüe" (for scenic dialogue Niklaus and Dorothee )

Works

Independent publications
  • Why do women write? Liberation emergency, role strife, emancipation in the mirror of modern literature . Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Br. 1980.
  • At home in a foreign country? Encounters with emigrants and refugees in Switzerland . Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Br. 1982.
  • On the entry of women into literature. Coping with life by writing. Profil Verlag, Munich 1983.
  • There were five of them. The Brothers Grimm and their family . Diederichs Verlag, Cologne 1984 (Japanese transl.)
  • with W. Hildebrandt : Life from the power of silence . Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Br. 1986.
  • Between the soup kitchen and the salon. 18 women from Berlin . Diederichs Verlag, Cologne 1987.
  • In the tucked Eichendorff peace. Poems . Waldkircher Verlag, Waldkirch 1988.
  • Tanned annual hides / Curtidas pieles de aňos. (Spanish / German poems) Todtmann Editores, Caracas 1988.
  • I'm just a tough bitch. 15 portraits of women from Munich . Diederichs Verlag, Munich 1990.
  • with W. Hildebrandt : Leipzig at second glance . Forum Verlag, Leipzig 1992.
  • The women are coming. 15 Zurich portraits . Diederichs Verlag, Munich 1994.
  • Ways where. Poems . Rospo Verlag, Hamburg 1994.
  • I never learned my role. 15 portraits of women from Vienna . Diederichs Verlag, Munich 1996.
  • Thirteen black cats. Poems . Alfelder Bücher Compagnie, 1997.
  • Provocations to tea. 18 portraits of women from Leipzig . Diederichs Verlag, Munich 1998.
  • Courtyards. Poems . Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2000.
  • Let's take the next step. 18 portraits of women in Frankfurt . Diederichs Verlag, Munich 2000.
  • Weser water level reports. Notes and Poems . Göttert Verlag, Diepenan 2000.
  • Words for places . To the consonances of a nocturnal encounter of language, light image and music. Poems. Art station Vlotho 2001.
  • Women who made history. 30 portraits of women from Maria Sibylla Merian to Sophie Scholl . Hugendubel Verlag, Kreuzlingen 2002.
  • Between the soup kitchen and the salon. Twenty-two Berlin women . Hugendubel Verlag, Kreuzlingen 2002.
  • Always against the wind. 18 portraits of women from Hamburg. Hugendubel Verlag, Kreuzlingen 2003.
  • Brave women. 30 portraits from five centuries . Piper Verlag, Zurich 2005.
  • Women with verve. 30 portraits from Rosa Luxemburg to Doris Dörrie . Piper Verlag, Zurich 2005.
  • Courageous Swiss women. 18 portraits from Johanna Spyri to Liselotte Pulver . Piper Verlag, Zurich 2006.
  • Great women. Portraits from five centuries . Piper Verlag, Zurich 2008.
Release
  • with Renate Massmann: I write because I write. GEDOK authors. A documentation . Weise's Hofbuchhandlg, Stuttgart 1990.
  • with Eva Zeller : The child I was in . S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt / M. 1991.
Dependent publications
  • numerous contributions to prose and poetry anthologies, essay collections and magazines (in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, as well as Namibia, Japan and Venezuela).
  • since 1983: various articles and poems in: Frau und Kultur, Essen
  • Father and I , H. Häsing, I. Mues (ed.). Frankfurt / M. 1993.
  • And if I love you , H. Häsing, I. Mues (ed.). Frankfurt / M. 1995.
  • Places leave traces , in: B. Labs-Ehlert, Bielefeld 1994.
  • PEN anthology . Swiss PEN center. Zurich 1998.
  • Limitless , in: F. Deppert, HE Buyer (ed.): Kogge-Anthologie. Siegburg 1998.
  • Interspace , in: Jacqueline Ollier (ed.), Université de Nice, 1992 (translation of selected poems into French)
Radio

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personal data
SURNAME Hildebrandt, Irma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bucher, Irma (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne