Kerstin Decker

Kerstin Decker (born November 22, 1962 in Leipzig ) is a German journalist and writer.

Life

Decker completed an apprenticeship as a saleswoman after leaving school. She later studied journalism at the University of Leipzig and at the Humboldt University in Berlin a . a. Philosophy. In 1994 she completed this course with a dissertation . Then she got a job with the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel . Later she was also a columnist and critic for the taz .

In addition to her journalistic work, a literary work emerged over time. Decker supported u. a. the actress Angelica Domröse on her autobiography , and with her husband Gunnar Decker she published a volume of essays .

She is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works

as an author

• Theonomy. Philosophy of history as “compensation for its end”; the retheologization of the historical in the work of Paul Tillich and Theodor W. Adornos . Dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin 1994.
• The East German goes through emotional outbursts or eternally pubescent. Reports, polemics, portraits . Verlag das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-360-00922-3 (together with Gunnar Decker).
• Oscar Wilde for those in a hurry . Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7466-2054-6 .
• Heinrich Heine . Fool of luck; a biography . Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-549-07259-7 .
• My heart - nobody. The life of the Else Lasker students . Propylaeen-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-549-07355-1 .
• Paula Modersohn-Becker . A biography . List Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-548-60869-3 .
• About the undeveloped art of inheriting undivided. A German lesson . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-320-02194-8 .
• Lou Andreas-Salomé . The bittersweet spark of me . Propylaeen Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-549-07384-1 .
• Nietzsche and Wagner . Story of a love-hate relationship . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-549-07424-4 .
• Richard Wagner . Viewed through the eyes of his dogs . Berenberg Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937834-61-0 .
• My farm in Africa. The life of Frieda von Bülow . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8270-1237-1 .
• The sister. The life of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8270-1277-7 .
• Franziska zu Reventlow . A biography . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-8270-1362-0 .

as a processor

• Angelica Domröse : I'm catching myself. My life . Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2003, ISBN 3-7857-2116-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Kerstin Decker in the catalog of the German National Library