Maeve Brennan

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Maeve Brennan (born January 6, 1917 in Dublin , † November 1, 1993 in New York City ) was an Irish- American journalist and writer .

Life

Maeve Brennan moved with her family to the United States in 1934 because her father Robert Brennan was working at the Irish Mission in Washington, DC . She first worked as a copywriter for Harper's Bazaar . From 1949 she was on the editorial staff of the New Yorker , where she published reviews , essays and prose works until 1973 and also met Truman Capote .

The daughter of the envoy of the Republic of Ireland to the USA married her editor-in-chief St. Clair McKelway from the New Yorker . She lived with him for a few years on the east side of the Hudson River near New York in the small settlement of Sneden's Landing , which is now called the Palisades . The location is the setting for the story collection Dance of the Maids. New York stories .

Brennan later suffered from schizophrenic attacks and was admitted to psychiatric hospitals several times. The author, who stood out as a young woman for her beauty, wit and quick-wittedness, died at the age of 76 in 1993, lonely and impoverished in New York.

plant

Many of the works written by Brennan were only published posthumously . Your short story The Visitor ( The Visitor ) had written in the 1940s; the work was not discovered in an archive until the late 1990s and published with great success in the USA in 2000 and in England and Ireland in 2001. The German edition was published in 2003. The volume Mr. and Mrs. Derdon brings together various short stories written between 1952 and 1973 about the Dublin couple Hubert and Rose Derdon. The German (partial) edition appeared in 2006.

Publications

The year of the original publication and - if available - the title of the German translation and the year of first publication of the German edition are given in brackets.

  • In and Out of Never-Never Land (short stories, 1969).
  • The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker (non-fictional short stories, 1969).
  • Christmas Eve (short stories, 1974).
  • The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin. Short stories, 1997
  • The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker (expanded edition, 1998).
  • The Rose Garden: Short Stories (Kurzgeschichten, 2000; German 2010).
  • The Visitor (Novelle, 2000; German 2003).
German editions (selection)
  • The visitor. Novella (Original title: The Visitor ). From the English and with an afterword by Hans-Christian Oeser . Steidl, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-88243-937-8 .
  • Übers. Hans-Christian Oeser: Mr. and Mrs. Derdon. Stories of a marriage . 2006, again 2016 (The Springs of Affection. Stories of Dublin)
  • The carpet with the big pink roses. Steidl, Göttingen 2007 ISBN 3-86521-247-6
  • The morning after the big fire. Stories. Translated by Hans-Christian Oeser. Steidl, Göttingen 2009 ISBN 978-3-86521-880-3
  • Maids dance. New York Stories (Original Title: The Rose Garden ). Translated by Hans-Christian Oeser. Steidl, Göttingen 2010 ISBN 978-3-86930-078-8
  • New York, New York. Columns (Original title: The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker ). Translated from the English by Hans-Christian Oeser. Steidl, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-466-3 .
  • Bluebell. Translated from the English by Hans-Christian Oeser. Steidl, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86930-664-3 .
  • All stories (2 vol.). Translated from the English by Hans-Christian Oeser. Steidl, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95829-209-3 .

literature

  • Angela Bourke: Maeve Brennan: Homesick at “The New Yorker”. Biography. Jonathan Cape 2004, ISBN 0-22406260-3
  • Paula Bändel: Life between the Shores - To the rediscovery of the author Maeve Brennan. In: Merkur , No. 763, issue 12, December 2012, ISSN  0026-0096 . Limited preview on Google Books
  • Michaela Karl: "I would never read something like this without lipstick." Maeve Brennan - A Biography , Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 2019, ISBN 978-3-455-50414-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dance of the maids - leopard slippers are not worn. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on February 4, 2016.
  2. Bernadette Conrad: Maeve Brennan and "Bluebell" - joy that can only grow. Review in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 7, 2013, accessed on February 4, 2016.
  3. Michaela Karl in conversation with Tanya Lieske: Happy in New York deutschlandfunk.de , July 2, 2019.