Irmtraud Morgner

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Irmtraud Morgner (right) at the 7th GDR Writers' Congress, 1973

Irmtraud Morgner (born August 22, 1933 as Irmtraud Elfriede Morgner in Chemnitz , † May 6, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Berlin, VII. Writers' Congress, Irmtraud Morgner (left) in conversation with Christa Wolf

Irmtraud Morgner was the daughter of a train driver . After graduating from high school in 1952 at what is now Agricola-Gymnasium in Chemnitz, she studied German and literature from 1952 to 1956 at the University of Leipzig . From 1956 to 1958 she worked on the editorial team of the magazine neue deutsche literatur . Since 1958 she has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin.

After a few narrative works in the style of socialist realism , Irmtraud Morgner achieved her breakthrough among the reading public in the GDR in 1968 with her novel Wedding in Constantinople . The virtuoso mixture of fantasy and realistic description of everyday life from a feminist perspective, produced here for the first time , became her trademark, and with the unusually broad-based novel Life and Adventure of Trobadora Beatriz and the sequel Amanda she achieved from 1974 both among readers of the GDR and from 1974 those of the Federal Republic of Germany were great successes. In the 1980s she had the opportunity to make several trips to the West, including the USA and Switzerland , where she gave guest lectures at the University of Zurich in 1987/88 . She was unable to complete the planned third volume of her “Salman Trilogy” because of the cancer that broke out in 1987; the fragments appeared posthumously as The Heroic Testament .

Irmtraud Morgner was a board member of the GDR Writers' Association .

From 1972 to 1977 she was married to the writer Paul Wiens for the second time , who provided reports about her as IM .

Grave of Irmtraud Morgner in the artist department of the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin

Irmtraud Morgner was buried in the artist department of Berlin's central cemetery in Friedrichsfelde .

Awards

Works

literature

  • Anneliese Stawström: Studies on the theme of the Incarnation in Irmtraud Morgner's "Life and Adventure of Trobadora Beatriz according to the testimony of her playwoman Laura - a novel in 13 books and 7 interludes". Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1987, ISBN 91-22-00885-3 .
  • Marlis Gerhardt (Ed.): Irmtraud Morgner. Luchterhand Collection, Vol. 825, Luchterhand, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-630-61825-1 .
  • Kristine von Soden (ed.): Irmtraud Morgner's hexic world trip. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-88520-370-7 .
  • Hildegard M. Pietsch: allusion, quote and montage in Irmtraud Morgner's "Amanda - a witch novel". Saint Louis 1991.
  • Anneliese Stawström: “The end was the beginning of my greatest illusion”. Stockholm 1991.
  • Gabriela Scherer: Between “Bitterfeld” and “Orplid”. Narratio Vol. 6, Lang, Bern 1992, ISBN 3-261-02988-9 .
  • Monika Meyer: From mischievous play to foolish seriousness. The dialogization of gender-specific ways of thinking and ways of speaking in the novels "Life and Adventure of Trobadora Beatriz" and "Amanda" by IM In: Weimarer contributions , no. 2, Passagen, Vienna 1992, ISSN  0043-2199 , pp. 245-258.
  • Ferdinand Habsburg: The rediscovery of the wonderful. Zerling, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88468-048-X .
  • Synnöve Clason: The fist novel "Trobadora Beatriz". Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm German Research Vol. 47, Almquist & Wiksell International, Stockholm 1994, ISBN 91-22-01612-0 .
  • Stephanie Hanel: Literary resistance between the fantastic and the everyday. Women in the History of Literature Vol. 2, Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1995, ISBN 3-89085-267-X .
  • Alison Lewis: Subverting patriarchy. Feminism and fantasy in the works of Irmtraud Morgner. Berg, Oxford 1995, ISBN 0-85496-322-7 .
  • Siegrun Bubser-Wildner: The dream forward. Iowa City , Iowa 1996.
    • this. (as Siegrun Wildner): Experimentum Mundi. Utopia as an aesthetic principle: On the function of utopian designs in I. Morgner's novels. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2000, ISBN 3-86110-249-8 .
  • Marie Luise Gansberg:  Morgner, Irmtraud. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 121-123 ( digitized version ).
  • Martina Elisabeth Eidecker: Search for meaning and grief work . Germanistic texts and studies Vol. 58, Olms, Hildesheim 1998, ISBN 3-487-10599-3 .
  • Doris Janssen: Blue Note acrobatics. Marburg 1998.
  • Birgit Margret Ursula Konze: The Aesthetics of Female Resistance. Nijmegen University Press, Nijmegen 1998, ISBN 90-5710-053-3 .
  • Hildegard Rossoll: Worldview and visual language in the work of Irmtraud Morgner. DDR Studies Vol. 12, Lang, New York 1999, ISBN 0-8204-3991-6 .
  • Geoffrey Westgate: Strategies under surveillance. Amsterdam 2002.
  • Helmut Fuhrmann on “The life and adventures of the trobadora Beatriz according to the testimonies of her playwoman Laura. A novel in 3 books and 7 intermezzo ”. In: Shadows cast ahead. Literature in the GDR - GDR in literature. Interpretations. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2588-1 , pp. 116–129 (numerous references; readable in Google books ).
  • Alice Schwarzer : Irmtraud Morgner (1933–1990), writer , in: Alice Schwarzer portrays role models and idols. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-462-03341-0 , pp. 124-130. (First published in EMMA 6/1998)
  • Geoffrey Plow: Irmtraud Morgner: Adventures in Knowledge 1959-1974. Lang, Oxford 2006, ISBN 3-03910-549-3 .
  • Ute Wölfel: Rede-Worlds. Series of literature on literature, vol. 77, WVT, Trier 2007, ISBN 978-3-88476-934-8 .
  • Barbara Stauß: Scary laughter: weird spellings in Christa Reinig, Irmtraud Morgner and Elfriede Jelinek . Helmer, Sulzbach / Taunus 2009, ISBN 978-3-89741-283-5 .
  • Short biography for:  Morgner, Irmtraud . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Britta Bothe: From "half-man" to "whole man": to love, work and androgyny in Irmtraud Morgner's Salman novels. Stuttgart Theses on German Studies Vol. 452, Heinz, Stuttgart, 2010, ISBN 978-3-88099-457-7 .
  • Zsuzsa Soproni: Narration in East and West: Intertextuality with Irmtraud Morgner and Günter Grass. Frank & Timm, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86596-294-2 .
  • Angela Gencarelli: Literary reality test of the fantastic. Particle physics and poetics in Irmtraud Morgner's prose. Freiburg i. Br. 2017, ISBN 978-3-7930-9871-3 .

Documentary film

  • On the way - meeting Irmtraud Morgner . Script and direction: Gabriele Schärer, Switzerland 1995.
  • Downright out. Irmtraud Morgner in Chemnitz . Script and direction: Beate Kunath, Ursel Schmitz, D 2008. Contemporary witnesses : Detlef Thierig u. a.

Web links

Commons : Irmtraud Morgner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the way - meeting Irmtraud Morgner. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ ... outright. Irmtraud Morgner in Chemnitz. In: bk-productions.de. Beate Kunath, accessed on May 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Morgner, Irmtraud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schreck, Irmtraud Elfriede (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1990
Place of death Berlin