Jutta Sauer

Jutta Sauer , née Pelz (born March 19, 1944 in Schönlanke , Pomerania) is a German author and editor .

Life

Jutta Sauer grew up as a refugee child in the castle park Leveste of Knigge Baron on. Then she attended grammar school, higher commercial school (business diploma). She worked in corporations in Wuppertal, Munich and Osnabrück. In her second education , she completed a degree in literature and art studies as well as philosophy at the University of Osnabrück , completing a Magister Artium . She then received teaching assignments for applied literature (University of Osnabrück). She also worked as a culture journalist and literature lecturer.

Based on their concept, the literature office West Lower Saxony was founded in Osnabrück in 1991. From 1991 to 2009 she was the head of the office and managing director of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize . She also worked on a voluntary basis in literary associations, including from 1997 to 2001 as deputy chairwoman of the federal board of the Association of German Writers and from 2000 to 2004 as chairwoman of the Lower Saxony Literature Council

She lives as a freelance writer in Osnabrück and is a member of the PEN Center Germany . In 2006 she was appointed to the jury of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize. Since 2016 she has been the coordinator of the PEN sponsorship and friendship group.

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Jutta Sauer publishes poetry, prose and essays in book form, but also in magazines and anthologies (among others at Suhrkamp, ​​Eichborn, Goldmann, S. Fischer, Wallstein, Wiener Frauenverlag) as well as features on the radio (Radio DRS / Switzerland, Radio Bremen). She was the editor of the culture magazine "ANSCHLÄGE" and the documentaries on the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize from 1991 to 2009.

Publications

• Make up , poems. Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-88323-378-1 .
• Walpurgis times , poems. Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-921860-32-6 .
• You shouldn't make an image for yourself. Max Frisch's images of women , feature. Bern / Bremen 1988/1989.
• The only important thing is the journey to yourself. Pencil notes from a literary journey , feature. Radio DRS, 1990.
• "Something between men and women". The longing of Marieluise Fleißer. , PapyRossa, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-89438-027-6 .
• as publisher: Reflecting on Felix Nussbaum, texts on pictures , Bramsche 1994, ISBN 3-930595-07-9 .
• Leveste , in: Mathias Mertens (Ed.): Peine, Paris, Pattensen. Literary surveys in the flat country , Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0085-9
• as editor: people and masks. Literary encounters with the painter Felix Nussbaum , Springe 2016, ISBN 978-3-86674-525-4 .
• Italian Spring , Roman. Hamburg 2019, hardcover ISBN 978-3-7482-2881-3 , paperback ISBN 978-7482-2880-6, e-book ISBN 978-7482-2882-0

Awards

• 1986 Joachim Ringelnatz Prize of the City of Cuxhaven
• 1988 nomination for the international poetry festival Struga / Yugoslavia
• 1992 Lower Saxony artist grant (now: Nicolas Born Prize )
• 1994 nomination for the international Black Sea project "The Waves of the Black Sea"
• 1996 Casa Baldi grant from the Accademia Tedesca Villa Massimo , Rome
• 1998 Foreign travel grant from the Foreign Office (Italy)
• 2000 foreign travel grant from the Foreign Office (Slovenia)
• 2000 residency scholarship Künstlerhof Schreyahn 2000.

literature

• PEN - The dictionary of authors. Tübingen 2015.
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar.
• Lower Saxony literary. Bremerhaven 1988.
• 259 - Art in the Osnabrück Cultural Region. Part 2 (published by the Osnabrück Regional Association), 1988.
• Profile, Impulse 5th issued by Nds. Ministry of Science and Culture