Luise Schmidt (writer)

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Luise Schmidt (* 5. May 1955 as Eva-Luise Schmidt in Cologne ) is a German poet .

Life

Luise Schmidt grew up in a liberal family on the outskirts of Cologne. She studied German , theater studies , art history and ethnology at the universities in Cologne and Bonn . She then lived as a freelance writer in Cologne . Since 1979 she has published poems in newspapers, compilations and magazines. In 1987 she received a Rolf Dieter Brinkmann grant from the city of Cologne for literature and in the same year the sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists .

In 1989 she was awarded the Peter Huchel Prize for her volume of poetry Die Finsternis die free existence as the first debutante among the winners, all of whom were recognized writers. It is her first and only volume of poetry. In her acceptance speech, she described her way to writing. In her childhood she was fascinated and frightened by images of people who have lost their feet. “The door slams and you quickly stumble down the steps until you get to the bottom. I hadn't learned much about that. Now I was slowly learning to endure the pictures that were not prepared for me, neither in books nor in the well-meaning words I had known before. And slowly I began to look for words for these pictures. "

Luise Schmidt stands in the tradition of the New Objectivity , said Hannelore Schlaffer in her laudation. The vocabulary is "the pale, colorless, dry one of everyday language [...] but the content-related motifs are taken from Luise Schmidt from certain social situations. In the context of the poem, the all too familiar suddenly becomes mysteriously confused. From the security of his own language the reader gets into the insecurity that the poem stages. " Peter von Becker wrote in Die Zeit :" Luise Schmidt weaves motifs of politics and contemporary history with a cocoon of private or fictitious biographical allusions, daydreams, incidental recordings and heightened images of horror and longing. [...] It never becomes kitsch, not always art. But this debut is always unusual and promising. ” For his book Defense of the Poem, Heinrich Vormweg chose Luise Schmidt's title-giving poem as one that he would next to one by Volker Braun a. a. is one of the extraordinary. He says: "Word for word it is the bitterest of today."

Works

literature

  • Franz Norbert Mennemeier : Shards of mirrors. Luise Schmidt's volume of poems "The Darkness of Free Existence". In: reflections. Literary criticism 1958–1998. 40 years of the New Rhineland. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim-Brauweiler 1998, ISBN 3-924182-40-X , pp. 81-83.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Dieter Brinkmann grant from the city of Cologne for literature , NRW literature on the net
  2. ^ Peter Huchel Prize, 1989 award winner: Luise Schmidt
  3. ^ Luise Schmidt: Acceptance speech for the Peter Huchel Prize. Planet Lyric, August 29, 2010
  4. ↑ Hannelore Schlaffer, laudation for Luise Schmidt, 1989. Planet Lyrik, August 29, 2010
  5. ↑ Peter von Becker: I am pencil and paper , Die Zeit, No. 32/1988, Zeit Online August 5, 1988
  6. ↑ Heinrich Vormweg: Defense of the poem. A polemic and a proposal. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-89244-017-4 , pp. 24-26.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Eva-Luise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne