Karen Duve

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Karen Duve at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Karen Duve (born November 16, 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German writer .

biography

Karen Duve grew up in the Hamburg district of Lemsahl-Mellingstedt . After graduating from high school in 1981, at the request of her parents, she began training as a tax inspector , which she finished in 1983 without a degree. She then worked in various temporary jobs and was a taxi driver in Hamburg for 13 years . She also worked as a proofreader for a magazine. She has been a freelance writer since 1996 . She has lived in Märkische Schweiz ( Brandenburg ) since 2009 .

Duve is a member of the scientific advisory board of the humanistic Giordano Bruno Foundation .

Publications

Duve published her first short story, A silent home in deep snow , in 1995. It is also part of her first book, No Hunch, with stories from Suhrkamp. This was followed by two entertainment dictionaries, that of famous animals and that of famous plants , in collaboration with Thies Völker. At the same time her first novel was published. Your rain novel tells of a grandiose failed house renovation, unpredictable women and a deeply threatening nature. It was performed under the name Rainfalls at the LOT Theater in Braunschweig and in Berlin in the theater discounter. Her subsequent novel This is not a love song is about an unrequited love , from which a failure of the previous life is derived. Edited and staged by the director Wenke Hardt, the novel was performed at the Berliner Theater unterm Dach and at the Societaetstheater Dresden. The kidnapped princess is an ironic fantasy and fairy tale novel. The story of the impoverished princess who is freed by the Bascar prince Diego was received mostly positively by the critics. The world wrote in a review on March 26, 2005 that Duve was using this story

"... once again [demonstrates] her enormous talent for changing perspectives and styles, [she] shows unimagined serenity, the courage to simple warmth of the heart and thus reconstructs her image as an ice princess among the fräuleinwunder ."

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , however, judged that Duve tended to be “fairytale and girlish harmlessness” with this story, and came to the conclusion that she was wasting her storytelling talent with this novel.

The novel Taxi followed in 2008 , in which she processed her experience in the taxi business. It was filmed in 2015 by Kerstin Ahlrichs under the title Taxi .

In Decent Eating , Duve describes her self- attempt to try different ethically justified forms of nutrition such as organic , vegetarian , vegan or frutarian . In the course of researching the book, Duve became a committed animal rights activist and vegetarian. The book received mostly positive reviews. She became known to the general public through numerous TV appearances in which she vehemently advocated a vegetarian diet. She went on a reading tour with the American writer and vegetarian activist Jonathan Safran Foer .

In her book Grrrimm , Duve recounts five well-known fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm . In addition to Little Red Riding Hood under the name Grrrimm , the fairy tales Brother Lustig , Sleeping Beauty under the title The patient Prince , Snow White as a dwarf idyll and The Frog King under the title The Frog Bride are freely retold. The last four short stories have been published earlier in newspapers and magazines.

Duve has written three children's books, two stories about the teddy bear "Thomas Müller", which were illustrated by Petra Kolitsch, and the picture book Bruno Orso flies into space , which Judith Zaugg illustrated.

In addition to her novels, she has published in anthologies and wrote essays and short stories for newspapers and magazines. Your book, Why Things Goes Wrong , received some harsh criticism but also a lot of praise.

In Power , Karen Duve processes social trends from the perspective of a psychopath that condense into a dystopia . The first-person narrator of the novel keeps his professionally successful wife trapped in the basement in order to upgrade herself and to break her will. The audio book version will be read by Charly Hübner .

Her novel portrait of Fräulein Nice's short summer depicts Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's productive years of life and receives a lot of critical praise as a successful "portrait of the times and society" and "never advances in education".

Awards

Works

Books

Publications in anthologies (selection)

  • in: Kiss my life from the chest! Edition postscript to Klampen Verlag, Lüneburg 1998, ISBN 3-933156-43-2 .
  • Slave market in Tangier. (Erotic short story) In: Susann Rehlein (Hrsg.): Please stroke here! Eichborn, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-8218-0680-X .
  • in: Anne Enderlein, Cornelia Kister (Ed.): Ice Age. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7466-1631-X .
  • in: Anne Enderlein (Ed.): Christmas and other catastrophes. Ullstein Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-548-25578-7 .
  • in: Sabine Blau (Ed.): Stories about turning red. Piper Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-26203-3 .
  • in: Liane Dirks (ed.): The book from reflective November. Sanssouci-Verlag in Carl Hanser Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8363-0043-8 .

Article (selection)

literature

  • Heike Bartel, Elizabeth Boa (ed.): Pushing at boundaries. Approaches to contemporary German women writers from Karen Duve to Jenny Erpenbeck . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2006, ISBN 1-4294-5631-0 (English, conference publication , University of Nottingham 2004 (originated when Karen Duve was at the university as DAAD Writer in Residence)).
  • Alexandra Boier: Cynical storytelling by Karen Duve . University of Vienna, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, Vienna 2010, urn : nbn: at: at-ubw: 1-29187.63808.479760-7 (diploma thesis).
  • Julia Schöll: The return of the author as a moral authority. Authoritative staging in the 21st century . In: Corina Caduff, Ulrike Vedder (Ed.): Writing the present. On German-language literature 2000–2015 . Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-5918-3 , p. 211-221 .
  • Éric Leroy du Cardonnoy: Pop - Golf - Klatsch: Literature by young German authors in the press. Parallèles . In: Germanica . No. 39 , December 1, 2006, ISSN  0984-2632 ( openedition.org [accessed November 17, 2018]).
  • Peter J. Graves: Karen Duve, Kathrin Schmidt , Judith Hermann : "A literary Miss Miracle"? In: German Life and Letters , 55 (2) / 2002, pp. 196-207.
  • Heike Bartel, Elizabeth Boa (Eds.): Pushing at Boundaries. Approaches to Contemporary German Women Writers from Karen Duve to Jenny Erpenbeck . Rodopi, Amsterdam / New York 2006, ISBN 90-420-2051-2 .
  • Stuart Taberner (Ed.): The novel in German since 1990. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge / New York a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-19237-8 , pp. 165-179.

Web links

Commons : Karen Duve  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ giordano-bruno-stiftung.de
  2. ↑ culture-port.de
  3. ↑ theaterdiscounter.de
  4. ↑ societaetstheater.de
  5. ^ Die Welt , March 26, 2005
  6. ^ FAZ , March 24, 2005
  7. ↑ Duve: Eat decently. A self-experiment. Galiani Verlag, Berlin 2011.
  8. ↑ So in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Frankfurter Rundschau , the FAZ and the time . Overview at perlentaucher.de
  9. ↑ u. a. Broadcast by Anne Will on January 9, 2011; Broadcast Kölner Treff on January 14, 2011; Night studio broadcast on January 23, 2010.
  10. ↑ Martin Kotynek , Marten Rolff: Interview: Karen Duve and Jonathan Safran Foer - Happy without meat. In: sueddeutsche.de. January 28, 2011, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Georg Diez: The critic: bacteria, greed and bad men. Spiegel online Kultur, October 31, 2014, accessed November 25, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Critique of the audio book power . Popshot.over-blog.de, February 24, 2016, accessed April 7, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Andrea Diener: Going into school books, she would not have wanted that, review in the FAZ from November 8, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018
  14. ^ VS Association of German Writers : Carl Amery Literature Prize to Karen Duve. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Duve, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg