Jenny already

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Jenny Schon (born December 16, 1942 in Trautenau (Trutnov) in Bohemia) is a German author , editor and city guide.

Life

Jenny Schon was expelled from Trautenau Riesengebirge with her mother in July 1945 . They came to Brühl / Rhineland, the hometown of their father, via detours . There she went to elementary school. In Cologne she did an apprenticeship as a tax assistant. After the Wall was built on August 13, 1961, she responded to an appeal by the Federal Youth Association and went to West Berlin to work because workers had become scarce. She did an apprenticeship as a bookseller and was a co-founder of the student bookstore "Das Politische Buch". She was a member of the Republican Club and the SDS . On the second path of education she obtained the Abitur . From 1969/70 she began studying sinology and journalism . In 1972 she accepted an invitation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China and went to China, even though the Federal Republic of Germany had no diplomatic relations with the People's Republic at the time. Jenny was one of the first to visit the country after the Cultural Revolution . Since then there have been various publications on China.

From 1988 to 1993 she completed postgraduate studies in philosophy and art history . Between 1988 and 1991 she held several teaching positions on the subject of "Chinese Philosophy" at the Free University of Berlin .

After the fall of the Wall she visited her native Trautenau in the Bohemian Giant Mountains. Already published several times on Bohemia, especially on the sculptor Franz Metzner , who came from Wscherau near Pilsen , who created the figures on the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig, and his colleague, the academic sculptor Emil Schwantner, a relative of the Bohemian maternal family of Jenny Schon. The American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Schwantner also comes from this family . The re-encounter with the homeland was incorporated into her publications, especially the late traumatization of the war children through flight and displacement. She writes u. a. for the Prager Zeitung , Landesecho Prague , Berlin literary criticism , literary criticism, Marburg a. a. After the fall of the Wall, she also looked for traces of the maternal family of her Rhenish father, the Thuringian family Weisheit, from which the high-wire acrobat group Weisheit from Gotha also comes.

Jenny Schon writes poetry , novels and contributions to anthologies and has received literary prizes. Many of her books come with their own photographs and graphics. She lives in Berlin. She has also been working there as a self-employed city guide since 1998.

She is a member of the association Kunst.Raum.Steglitz Berlin, the PEN-Zentrum Deutschland , Künstlergilde eV and GEDOK Berlin.

reception

“Anyone who faces the topicality and the explosive nature of the topics is guaranteed an interesting and profitable discussion. In Jenny you will get to know not only a committed and differentiated novelist, but also a sensitive and concise poet in one person "

- Anna Gerstlacher : Double review on "How men taught me to hold the bomb and I let it fall" and "A German count"

bibliography

Poetry

  • Bohemian / Česká polka. Poems and photos. Geest, Vechta 2005. (German-Czech)
  • How men taught me to hold the bomb and I dropped it. Poems and photos. Geest, Vechta 2009.
  • Rhenish rondeau. Stories, poems. trafo Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86465-010-9 .
  • Fus-s-Volks: Poems. Geest Verlag, Vechta 2012, ISBN 978-3-86685-386-7 .
  • finally mortal - de brevitate vitae. Poems. Geest Verlag, Vechta 2016, ISBN 978-3-86685-553-3 .
  • loud silence. Poetry book. Geest Verlag, Vechta 2018, ISBN 978-3-86685-700-1 . (illustrated by Christiane Lenz.)

Novels / prose

  • The ditch . Novel. Verlag am park / edition ost, Berlin 2005.
  • The collector . Novel. trafo, Berlin 2009.
  • with Joachim Süß : Postelberg children’s children - dreams and trauma. Stories and poems. Odertor-Verlag, Bad Schussenried 2011.
  • Finger pointing. Stories about the 25th year of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Geest-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86685-470-3 .
  • 1967 wasp time. Roman, Dahlemer Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-928832-53-3 .
  • half strong. Roman, Geest Verlag, Vechta 2017, ISBN 978-3-86685-635-6 .
  • The smell of the books. Roman, Dittrich Verlag, 2019, ISBN 9783947373406 .
  • Fleeting , stories about 30 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolution, Geest Verlag, Vechta 2019, ISBN 978-3-86685-739-1

Non-fiction books / essays

  • China trusting in its own strength. Travel report. Berlin, Oberbaum 1973.
  • Women in china. Study. Bochum, Brockmeyer 1982.
  • The feminine in Chinese philosophy. In: Women's Studies. Contributions to the Berlin China Conference 1991 (= Berlin China Studies. 20). Minerva publications, Saur Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-597-10616-1 .
  • Emil Schwantner. A strong temperament in constant struggle for its formal control . Czech-German catalog. Municipal gallery Trautenau / Trutnov 1996.
  • Sculptures in the public space of Eastern Bohemia - On the trail of the academic sculptor Emil Schwantner. In: Friedhof und Denkmal, magazine for sepulchral culture. 5, Kassel 2008.
  • The sculptor Franz Metzner - One hundred years of the Battle of the Nations Monument . Leipzig, Yearbook Leipzig 2013.
  • Lost stories rediscovered. For the 70th birthday of the poet Gertie Hampel-Faltis (1897–1944). Stifter Jahrbuch, Munich, 28/2014.
  • A displacement in stages - retrospect after 70 years. In: Sudetendeutsche Zeitung. Munich, July 3, 2015.
  • Bohemia not by the sea - a search for traces to this day. Gerhard-Hess-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-87336-483-7 .

Editorships

  • The Bonnians are coming! Satires. Jaron, Berlin 1998.
  • Where God and the world met - West Berlin. On the 50th anniversary - August 13, 1961. Contemporary witnesses remember the first years after the building of the wall. Geest, Vechta 2011.
  • Age, bankruptcy book 40. 2003, ISBN 3-88769-240-3 .
  • Woman and literature in China. Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-88339-452-1 .

Prizes and awards

  • 1997: Grant from the Adalbert Stifter Association , Munich
  • 2007: 3rd prize in the storytelling competition Der Tagesspiegel / Museen Dahlem for the story of Sleep's sister
  • 2008: 3rd prize in the undoped writing competition Zeitzeugenpreis Berlin-Brandenburg for the story My First Berlin Marathon
  • 2011: Recognition award for essay As if one's eyelids were cut off , competition “Kleist and I” of the Kleist Museum Frankfurt / Oder
  • 2011: 1st prize poetry for the poem Winterliebe 3rd Bern Book Weeks
  • 2013: Nominated (shortlist) for the Landschreiber-Competition Leipzig 2013 with the story Sleep's Sister .
  • 2013: 3rd prize of the Eßlingen Artists' Guild for the poem Outskirts of the City
  • 2013: Award for the story to lose mother and publication in the context of the literature competition of the Bonn book fair Migration November 2013
  • 2013: Award for Dita too dances at the “Irrtum” literature competition in Bremen
  • 2014: Best list in the Hildesheim poetry competition with "Winterliebe"
  • 2015: Special Prize in Dialect, 3rd Landschreiber Competition "Language and Camouflage", Münster,
  • 2015: 2nd prize poetry for the poem "Kafka", artists' guild
  • 2016: Andreas Gryphius Prize for life's work
  • 2017: textplusbild Düsseldorf, 3rd prize prose "Lost"
  • 2017: Poetry Prize KünstlerGilde Esslingen, 2nd Poetry Prize "The Young Years"
  • 2017: 2nd prize at the 5th Landschreiberliteraturwettbewerb Sprach undelemente, Münster
  • 2018: Best list of authors' competition "China-Roman", 2018 European University Press and in cooperation with the Chinese Culture Translation and Studies Support and with funding from the Chinese Ministry of Culture, Bochum
  • 2018: 1st prize "Advancement through Education", Mannheim

literature

  • East German Memorial Days 2012 - Cultural Foundation for German Expellees, Personalities and Historical Events . Cultural Foundation of German Expellees , Bonn 2013 (contribution to Jenny Schon, p. 242 ff.)
  • PEN - Lexicon of Authors 2020/2021 , Darmstadt (contribution to Jenny Schon, p. 276),
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar, 2020/21 , Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Munich,
  • I'm a sixty-eighter , in: 'The world has been opened for me', Interview with Jenny Schon by Helene Becker, Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt eV, Volume 1, Berlin 2020, pp. 22-26.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Profile of Jenny Already on Literaturport.de (online) , accessed on February 24, 2014.
  2. ^ Website of the PEN Center , accessed on January 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ In: The Berlin literary criticism. February 26, 2010 (online) , accessed February 24, 2014.
  4. ↑ 3rd place, adults: Schlafes Sister - by Jenny Schon. In: Der Tagesspiegel. September 12, 2007. (tagesspiegel.de)
  5. ↑ Publications. on the website of Jenny Schon. gerhard-hess-verlag.de ( Memento from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Lots of high-quality texts. In: NWZ online. December 13, 2011. ( nwzonline.de ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ))
  7. ↑ Jenny Schon wins the 3rd prize for poetry from the Esslingen Artists' Guild. Geest Publishing House.
  8. ↑ Hildesheim poetry competition two thousand 14 - the winning poems. ( lyrik-bestenliste.de ( Memento from January 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 8, 2015.)
  9. ↑ 2016 Andreas Gryphius Prize for Jenny Schon. October 10, 2016. (lyrikzeitung.com)
  10. ↑ 9th Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels, December 20, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Yes, Jenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, editor and city guide
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Trautenau