Libuše Moníková

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Libuše Moníková (born August 30, 1945 in Prague ; † January 12, 1998 in Berlin ) was a Czech , German-speaking writer .

Life

Old St. Matthew Cemetery Berlin , Libuše Moníková grave

Libuše Moníková grew up in Prague . From 1963 to 1968 she studied English and German at the Charles University there . In 1970 she did her doctorate with Eduard Goldstücker on the Coriolan in comparison with Brecht and Shakespeare . On September 28, 1970 Libuše Moníková and the German student Michael Herzog married - she had a temporary visa for the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1971 she finally moved to live with her husband in Göttingen. The move also happened for political reasons. In Germany, Moníková worked as a lecturer at the Kassel University and from 1977 at the University of Bremen . From 1978 to 1981 she worked as a trainee teacher and teacher. Since 1981 she has lived as a freelance writer, first in Bremen, then in Berlin. Libuše Moníková died in Berlin in 1998. Her grave is located in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg - a few steps away from the graves of the Brothers Grimm and the women's rights activist Minna Cauer .

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Libuše Moníková only began to write in German during her stay in Germany. Your U. a. Works influenced by Franz Kafka , Jorge Luis Borges and Arno Schmidt , often incorporating fantastic and mythical elements, are shaped by memories of the Prague years, by the experience of the suppression of the Prague Spring and exile, from which Moníková even after the fall of the Wall in Eastern Europe was no longer able to return to her homeland. For the author, the German language as a foreign language has become an artistic and aesthetic potential. Referring to her work A Damage , she said:

“Thanks to my work with Kafka, I have the insight that a lack of language can, under certain circumstances, become a strength, a strength of expression, because no word seems self-evident, its meaning is secure, each one is new, and the responsibility lies with the author, I write by I feel my way through the language, sometimes approaching meanings that remain unconscious until I have written it down: this search originally comes from foreign language, today it identifies me as an author. "

Libuše Moníková's works received international recognition, but are still trying to find their way to Czech readers. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of her death, the Prague House of Literature, in collaboration with the Monument to National Literature and the House of Reading of the Prague City Library (Dům čtení MLP), presented the exhibition In Dialogue with Libuše Moníková , in which presented the life and the German-language literary work of the Czech author.

Memberships

  • From 1991 to 1996 member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany, from which Moníková resigned in protest against the association with the East German PEN Center.
  • From 1988 member of the (West) Berlin Academy of the Arts.
  • From 1993 full member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.

Awards

Works

Novels

Plays

  • Tetom and tuba. Frankfurt am Main 1987.
  • Among ogres. Dramatic menu in four courses. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 978-3-88661-104-1

literature

  • Barbara Alms : Strangeness as an aesthetic principle. On the German-language novels by the Czech Libuše Moníková. In: Stint No. 6, 1989, pp. 138-151.
  • Helga Braunbeck: Figurations of Art, Music, Film and Dance - Intermediality with Libuše Moníková. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8498-1237-9 .
  • Delf Schmidt , Michael Schwidtal (Eds.): Prague - Berlin: Libuše Moníková. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999 (= Rowohlt Literaturmagazin 44) ISBN 3-498-03907-5 .
  • Antje Mansbrügge: Author category and memory. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-8260-2256-2 .
  • Alfrun Kliems : In the silent land. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-39983-5 .
  • Patricia Broser, Dana Pfeiferová (ed.): Behind the facade: Libuše Moníková. Contributions to the International Germanistic Conference in České Budějovice 2003. Edition Praesens, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7069-0259-1 .
  • Brigid Haines, Lyn Marven (ed.): Libuše Moníková in memoriam. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2005, ISBN 978-90-420-1616-3 .
  • Karin Windt: Damage, Compensation - Overdelivery, Extradition. Bodies, spaces and history in the work of Libuše Moníková. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89528-632-2 .
  • Michael Krüger , Ed .: Focus on Libuše Moníková. Accents. Journal of Literature . Issue 6, December 1997, ISBN 3-446-23257-5 .
  • Dana Pfeiferová: Libuše Moníková. Eine Grenzgängerin , Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0533-6 (Habilitation thesis Masaryk University Brno 2009, 244 pages).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Barbara Alms, see literature, p. 143.
  2. ↑ on October 28, the day the republic was founded
personal data
SURNAME Moníková, Libuše
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech German-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1998
Place of death Berlin