Linda Pfeiffer

Linda Pfeiffer (born May 25, 1948 in Solingen ) is a German writer .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Linda Pfeiffer studied at the University of Education in Cologne , where she was in close contact with Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Ralf-Rainer Rygulla , with whom she a. a. Made underground films. She also contributed to the compilation of the pop literature published by Brinkmann and Rygulla - anthology Acid (1969). She writes stories and poems that she started in 1969 a. a. published in long-legendary underground magazines such as Der Gummibaum (edited by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann) and The cheerful Tarzan (edited by Rolf Eckart John) or Litfass . From 1970 to 1973 she wrote as a freelancer for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . In 1985 she received an invitation to the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt and made her debut in the same year with the volume of short stories I cry, I laugh . In 1989, together with Hubert Winkels , she was a juror at the authors' meeting in NRW. In the 1990s she was a member of the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad . Since October 2015 she has been participating in the intercultural project "FremdwOrte" at the Literaturhaus Köln.

She worked as a teacher until 2012 , from 1977 to 1979 in Rio de Janeiro , then at various schools in the Rhineland , most recently in Sri Lanka . She is currently working as a freelance lecturer.

Linda Pfeiffer lives with the artist Henning John von Freyend in Sievernich .

Single track

• I cry, I laugh. Stories. March , Herbstein 1985, ISBN 978-3-88880-061-0 .
• Black love. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 1989, ISBN 978-3-462-01963-6 .

Anthologies

• Reinhold Neven DuMont (ed.): KiWi reading book. The 80s. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1989, ISBN 978-3-462-02011-3 .
• Hubert Winkels (Ed.): From. Murder stories. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1986, ISBN 978-3-462-01754-0 .
• Jochen Arlt , JW Martin (ed.): One hand washes the other. Cologne reading book. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 1987, ISBN 978-3-924182-07-6 .

literature

• Ludwig Janssen: Literature Atlas NRW. An address book for the literary scene. Volksblatt, Cologne 1992, ISBN 978-3-923243-96-9 .
• Jörgen Schäfer: The Making of Pop Literature. Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and his Cologne Circle of Friends. In: Pop in R (h) einkultur. Surface aesthetics and everyday culture in the region. Edited by Dirk Matejovski, Marcus S. Kleiner , Enno Stahl . Klartext, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8375-0005-9 , pp. 103-124.

Web links

• Literature by and about Linda Pfeiffer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Linda Pfeiffer in the exhibition Extraordinary and Obscene
• Cooperation with Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
• Reading sample from the volume of stories I cry - I laugh on the Schröder & Calendar blog .
• Linda Pfeiffer (played by Isabel Schosnig) in the movie Brinkmanns Zorn
• Linda Pfeiffer on the page dedicated to Rolf Dieter Brinkmann www.brinkmann-wildgefleckt.de