Manfred Flügge

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Manfred Flügge (born March 3, 1946 in Kolding , Denmark ) is a German writer and translator .

Life

Manfred Flügge signing his book on the occasion of the award ceremony "Hommage à la France" in Dresden

Manfred Flügge, who comes from an East Prussian refugee family, spent his childhood and youth in the Ruhr area from 1948 . He attended the Adalbert-Stifter-Gymnasium in Castrop-Rauxel , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1965 . From 1965 to 1974 he studied Romance studies and history at the Universities of Münster and Lille . 1974 doctorate he with a Romanist work at the University of Münster Dr. phil. Then he was a trainee lawyer in Hagen and from 1976 to 1990 lecturer and assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin , where he received his habilitation in 1981 . Flügge has been a freelance writer since 1990. In 1992 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . Flügge now lives in Paris and Berlin .

Manfred Flügge is the author of novels , short stories , biographies , reviews , plays and radio plays . He also translates from French .

Manfred Flügge has been a member of the German PEN Center since 1999 . He received u. a. The following awards: 1994 the Alfred Döblin scholarship , 1997 a scholarship from the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and the Stuttgart Writers ' House , 2003 a visiting professor at Miami University in Oxford (Ohio) , 2004 the honor of the Villa Départementale Marguerite Yourcenar in Saint- Jans-Cappel , 2014 in Dresden the literature prize “Hommage à la France” of the Brigitte Schubert-Oustry Foundation and the Prix Jean Monnet du Dialogue Européen 2014 for his French essay Le bleu des Anges. Le rêve français de Heinrich Mann (Grasset, 2014).

Works (selection)

Manfred Flügge (left) and Stéphane Hessel
  • The articulation of the narrative invariants. Munster 1974.
  • Refusal or new order. Rheinfelden 1982 (2 volumes)
  • Paris is difficult. German CVs in France. Berlin 1992. (Subject is: the life of Wilhelm Uhde )
  • Cracked love. The real story of " Jules and Jim ". Berlin et al. 1993
  • The return of the players. Trends in the French novel after Sartre. Marburg 1993.
  • My longing is life. A story from the German resistance. Berlin 1996.
  • Reluctantly in paradise. German writer in exile in Sanary-sur-Mer. Berlin 1996.
  • Too late for America. Novel. Berlin 1998 (autobiographical novel)
  • I am the angel. Encounters in Los Angeles. Berlin 1999.
  • Figaro's fate. The life of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Munich 2001.
  • Heinrich Schliemann's way to Troy. The story of a mythomaniac. Munich 2001.
  • The untouchable. A life novel. Berlin 2001.
  • Rescue without a rescuer or: A train from Theresienstadt. Munich 2004.
  • Heinrich Mann. A biography. Reinbek 2006.
  • I remember Berlin. Experienced and invented. Berlin 2006.
  • The four lives of Marta Feuchtwanger. Biography. Berlin 2008.
  • The fleeting paradise. Artists on the Cote d'Azur. Berlin 2008.
  • Stéphane Hessel - a happy rebel. Berlin 2012.
  • Muse of exile. The life of the painter Eva Herrmann. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-458-17550-6 .
  • Dreamland and Refuge - Heinrich Mann in France. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-35954-8 (insel taschenbuch 4254).
  • The Century of the Manns. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-351-03590-7 .
  • City without a soul. Vienna 1938. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-351-03699-7 .

Editing

  • Franz Hessel : Last homecoming to Paris. Berlin 1989
  • Gérard Sandoz : Gérard Sandoz - a life for understanding. Marburg 1990
  • Jean Anouilh : Antigone. Becket or The Glory of God. Frankfurt / M. including 1992
  • Zofía Jasinska : War, love and life. A Polish Jew among Germans. Berlin 1998
  • Inge Ginsberg : The partisan villa. Memories of escape, secret service and numerous hits. Munich 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Flügge, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolding , Denmark