Jeannette Lander

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Jeannette Lander (also: Jeannette Seyppel , born September 8, 1931 in New York ; died June 20, 2017 in Nauen ) was a German writer .

Life

Lander was the daughter of a Polish - Jewish couple who emigrated to the United States . She grew up speaking English and Yiddish as mother tongues . From 1934 the family lived in a predominantly African-American neighborhood of Atlanta , Georgia . Lander published poems in Yiddish as early as 1944 and short stories and essays in English from 1952 . In 1950 she married the German author Joachim Seyppel , who lives in the USA , with whom she had two children. Lander stayed in West Berlin for the first time from 1950 to 1952 . Later she completed a degree a. a. at Middlebury - and Bryn Mawr College , where she the 1,957 degrees of Bachelor of Arts acquired. From 1959 to 1960 she worked as a teacher for English and ancient history .

In 1960 Jeannette Lander moved to Berlin and studied English and German at the Free University . In 1966 she received her doctorate there with a thesis on William Butler Yeats for a doctorate in philosophy. From then on she published as a freelance writer exclusively in German . In 1971 she separated from her husband Joachim Seyppel; the marriage was divorced in 1982. Since then, Jeannette Lander has lived with the designer Gheorghe Bauer. From 1984 to 1985 she stayed in Sri Lanka . From 1995 she lived in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg ; thereafter the author was based in Mühlenberge, Brandenburg, in the Havelland district .

Jeannette Lander was the author of novels , short stories , poems, radio plays and radio features .

Lander was a member of the Association of German Writers , the German PEN Center and the German Werkbund , of which she was chair from 1983 to 1984. She received u. a. A scholarship from the Villa Massimo in 1976, a working scholarship from the Berlin Senate in 1979 and 1988 , was Writer in Residence at the University of Georgia in 2000 and at Washington University in St. Louis , Missouri in 2001 .

Jeannette Lander died in June 2017 at the age of 85 in Nauen, Brandenburg.

Works

  • Water pictures in the poetry of WB Yeats, FU Berlin, Phil. F., Diss. 4th July 1966.
  • William Butler Yeats. The visual language of his poetry, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1967. 168 pages. Diss., FU Berlin.
  • Ezra Pound, Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1968. 94 pages.
  • One summer during the week of Itke K., Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971; New edition: Autonomie und Chaos Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-945980-16-3 pdf
  • On the soil of the foreigner , island, Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • A sparrow in hand , Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1973
  • The daughters , Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1976
  • The last flight , literary colloquium / Berlin artist program d. DAAD, LCB editions, 49 , Berlin 1978. 22 pages.
  • I, alone , authors' edition, Munich 1980
  • Century of the Lords , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1993
  • Holdover. A little eroticism in the kitchen , construction, Berlin 1995
  • An interrupted journey , construction, Berlin 1996
  • Robert , construction, Berlin 1998

literature

  • Heike Henderson: Cooking up Memories: The Role of Food, Recipes and Relationships in Jeannette Lander's Überbleibsel. Women in German Yearbook 22. Edited by Helga Kraft and Maggie McCarthy. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2006, 236-257.
  • Laurel Plapp: Zionism and revolution in European-Jewish literature. New York, NY [u. a.] 2008.
  • Leslie A. Adelson : 1971 One summer in the week of Itke K. by American-born Jeannette Lander is published. In: Sander L. Gilman , Jack Zipes (Ed.): Yale companion to Jewish writing and thought in German culture 1096 - 1996. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven 1997, pp. 749-758.
  • Jutta Dick: Lander, Jeannette. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , p. 323f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Writer Jeannette Lander is dead . Deutschlandfunk Kultur , June 21, 2017, accessed on June 21, 2017.
  2. ↑ Jeannette Lander. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , pp. 580-581.
personal data
SURNAME Lander, Jeannette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seyppel, Jeannette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 20th June 2017
Place of death Nauen