Karin Reschke

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Karin Reschke (born September 17, 1940 in Krakow ) is a German writer .

Life

Karin Reschke, whose parents were both actors, grew up in Berlin in 1944. After graduating from high school, she studied German in Munich from 1960 to 1964 . In 1962 she worked as an actress in a small supporting role - "Elke Liebenau" - in the Hessian television series The Hesselbach Family . In 1965 she returned to Berlin. From 1972 to 1974 she was a trainee at Sender Freie Berlin . She then worked until 1978 at a literary magazine of the University of Konstanz with and wrote simultaneously reviews for the magazine concretely . From 1978 she worked as a member of the political science department at the Free University of Berlin and editor of the social science journal Leviathan . She has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin since 1984 .

Karin Reschke's novels and stories often focus on the fate and development of - sometimes historical - women from the past and present.

Karin Reschke, who belonged to the Association of German Writers from 1978 to 1988 and has been a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1983 , received the FAZ Prize for Literature in 1982 . In 1995 she was awarded the Bettina von Arnim Prize , and in 1998 she was awarded the special prize of the Silesian Culture Prize of Lower Saxony .

Works

  • Memoirs of a Child . Berlin 1980
  • Pursued of happiness . Henriette Vogel's find book . Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88022-266-5 .
  • These days overnight . Berlin 1984
  • Margarete . Berlin 1987
  • Tribunal in the Ascanian court . Berlin 1989 (together with Ursula Krechel and Gisela von Wysocki )
  • Laughter in the forest . Hamburg 1993
  • Asphalt venus . Hamburg 1994
  • Cuddle fish . Hamburg 1996
  • Birnbaum's pictures . Frankfurt am Main 1998
  • From Schleswig to Holstein . Frankfurt am Main 1999
  • End of game . Berlin 2000
  • Cold dog . Frankfurt am Main 2009

Editing

  • Texts to touch , Munich 1978

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