Irmtraud Gutschke

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Irmtraud Gutschke (* 14. April 1950 as Irmtraud Heinze in Chemnitz ) is a German journalist and author with a focus on essay writing .

Life

Gutschke completed her high school at the boarding high school Wickersdorf and 1971 to a study of Slavic Studies and English Studies at the University of Jena , which in 1974 with diploma completed. She began as a literary editor for the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland and published numerous reports on international and later also national authors. Her focus was initially on the literature of the Soviet Union , later other nations joined Russia .

Gutschke received his doctorate in 1976 at the Humboldt University in Berlin with the work Man and Nature in Aitmatow's work. Gutschke was in close contact with the Kyrgyz writer Tschingis Torekulowitsch Aitmatow for decades and made several trips to meet him, as she reported at an event in his honor at the German-Russian Cultural Institute .

The collaboration with New Germany ended at the end of 2018 . Gutschke has since worked as a freelance literary critic with a focus on Aitmatow, East German authors, Russian literature and current political issues. She speaks fluent Russian and attaches great importance to interacting with her readership.

bibliography

  • Human issues, fairy tales, myths. On the work of Tschingis Aitmatov. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1986, ISBN 978-3-354-00091-9 .
  • Hermann Kant. The thing and the things. Construction paperback, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7466-7087-4 .
  • Eva Strittmatter. Body and life. Structure Digital, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8412-1763-9 .
  • Gisela Steineckert. Life has something. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-360-02157-1 .
  • The promise of the cranes. Travels in Aitmatov's world. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2018, ISBN 978-3-96311-021-4 , second supplemented edition. Hall 2020
  • Animal stories , collected and provided with an essay by Gutschke. Unionsverlag Zurich 2020, 186 pages, ISBN 978-3-293-00560-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b editorial overview. New Germany, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dissertations from the Humboldt University in Berlin. (PDF; 36 MB) In: Series of the Berlin University Library No. 36. Berlin University Library, 1981, p. 26 , accessed on March 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ "Planetary Consciousness" - How Tschingis Aitmatow connects Europe and the Islamic world. In: drki.de. January 18, 2019, accessed on March 6, 2019 (with photos by Irmtraud Gutschke).
personal data
SURNAME Gutschke, Irmtraud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinze, Irmtraud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author with a focus on essay writing
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz