Katja Lange-Müller

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Katja Lange-Müller (2011)
Katja Lange-Müller on September 6, 2016 in the Literaturhaus Cologne

Katja Lange-Müller (born February 13, 1951 in Berlin-Lichtenberg ) is a German writer .

Life

Katja Lange-Müller is the daughter of Inge Lange (1927–2013), who was a leading politician in the GDR . After she was expelled from school at the age of 16 for “anti-socialist behavior”, she did an apprenticeship as a typesetter and then worked as a picture editor for the Berliner Zeitung . After a year as a prop master for GDR television, she worked for several years as an auxiliary nurse in closed psychiatric wards at the Berlin Charité and the Berlin-Herzberge Hospital for Neurology and Psychiatry .

From 1979 she studied at the literature institute "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig . Her husband Wolfgang Müller had submitted application documents for her without her intervention. In 1982 a one-year study visit to Mongolia and work in the "Wilhelm Pieck Carpet Factory" in Ulan Bator followed . After returning to the GDR in 1983 she was an editor at Altberliner Verlag . In 1984 she left the GDR for West Berlin . She still lives in Berlin and recently also in Switzerland.

Lange-Müller's work consists of stories and novels that also incorporate experiences from her eventful life. Although these are often stories about social outsiders and failures, the comic and grotesque side of their fates is always emphasized. When dealing with the division of Germany and the situation in the GDR, Lange-Müller's pronounced satirical streak is also noticeable.

Lange-Müller has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt since 2000, and of the Academy of Arts (Berlin) since 2002 .

She was married to the writer Wolfgang Müller (1941–2013), the younger brother of the writer Heiner Müller .

“In her works she uses the comedy as a“ kind of self-defense ”, says Lange-Müller. “If a big fat man comes threateningly close to a small, weak and thin one and wants to punch him in the face, the little thin man has only one chance: He has to make the big fat man laugh. Then he won't hit him anymore. ""

- Katja Lange-Müller in conversation with Maja Ellmenreich : Deutschlandfunk : Kultur heute , 2019

Works

Autograph by Lange-Müller
  • Wehleid - wie im Leben (= Collection S. Fischer , Volume 47), Fischer Taschenbuch 2347, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-596-22347-4 .
  • Kasper Mauser - cowardice in front of a friend , Cologne 1988.
  • Premature love for animals , Cologne 1995.
  • The last: Notes from Udo Posbich's printing works , Roman, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-462-02929-0 .
  • Biotopic conditions , Berlin 2001.
  • Prussia's last pioneers , Rheinsberg 2001.
  • with Hans Scheib: Stille Post , Schwetzingen 2001.
  • with Ingrid Jörg: The sweet beetle and the sour beetle , Berlin 2002.
  • with Jonas Maron and Monika Maron : What does the cat know about Sunday? , Berlin 2002
  • The ducks, the women and the truth , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-462-03215-4 .
  • The Nicaraguan dog (= Berliner Handpresse , Volume 115), illustrations by Wolfgang Jörg, Reinhart & Wasser / Berliner Handpresse, Berlin 2003 DNB 968893236 .
  • Angry sheep , novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03914-6 .
  • with Kateryna Stetsevych (Ed.) u. a .: Lost Words - Lost Worlds: a European language trip Edition fotoTAPETA, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-940524-20-1 .
  • Revolving door , Roman. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04934-3 .
Editing
  • Bahnhof Berlin, short stories, reports, speeches, letters and poems ; Thirty-five authors talk about their Berlin. dtv 8392, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-08392-1 .
  • Spit on by fish , new stories by 37 German-speaking authors, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-462-03073-6 .
  • Günter Grass: You. Yes, you. Love poems. Selected by Katja Lange-Müller. Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-95829-520-9 .

Awards

literature

  • Herlinde Koelbl : Katja Lange-Müller. In: Writing at home - How writers go about their work -; Photographs and conversations . Munich: Knesebeck Verlag 1998. pp. 58-63. ISBN 3-89660-041-9 . Photo documentation by Lange-Müller, which portrays the author at her workplace and in her personal environment and which in the interview represents the basis of her calling as well as the framework and individual approach to the creation of her works.
  • Linda Karlsson Hammarfelt: Practices in the Gap . Transitional letter from Katja Lange-Müller . Munich: Iudicium 2012. ISBN 978-3-86205-313-1 .
  • Daniel Sich: Dismissed from opposition to the state. Katja Lange-Müller and the problem of humorous writing styles in East German literature of the nineties . Frankfurt am Main [u. a.]: Lang 2003. ISBN 3-631-51405-0 .
  • Markus Symmank: Carnival-like configurations in contemporary German literature. Investigations based on selected texts by Wolfgang Hilbig, Stephan Krawczyk, Katja Lange-Müller, Ingo Schulze and Stefan Schütz . Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 2002. ISBN 3-8260-2146-0 .

Web links

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Katja Lange-Müller ( memento from November 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Nordwestradio, talk time, August 21, 2012. (offline), note: archive version can be called up, but not played
  2. ↑ Katja Lange-Müller in conversation with Maja Ellmenreich: Katja Lange-Müller about problems as a drive: writer with left. Katja Lange-Müller was not allowed to write with her left hand at school. "Either you avoid writing, or you accept the challenge," she said in the Dlf. “I said to myself: now more than ever!” A conversation about problems as turning points, humor and reluctant fictional characters. In: Culture Today . Deutschlandfunk , July 30, 2019, accessed on August 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ https://steidl.de/Buecher/Du-Ja-Du-Liebesgedichte-0813324758.html
  4. ^ Art Prize for Literature Photography of the Land Brandenburg Lotto GmbH. Lotto Brandenburg, accessed on December 14, 2015 .
  5. ^ Villa Massimo 1913–2015. (No longer available online.) Villa Massimo, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; Retrieved September 25, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Award: Katja Lange-Müller receives Kleist Prize . Kölnische Rundschau Kultur, May 17, 2013; Retrieved May 17, 2013
  7. ↑ Katja Lange-Müller receives Günter Grass Prize. NDR, accessed on February 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Lange-Müller, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Lichtenberg