Manfred Flügge
Manfred Flügge (born March 3, 1946 in Kolding , Denmark ) is a German writer and translator .
Life
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)
- 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
Translations
- Pascal Bruckner : I buy, therefore I am. Berlin 2004
- Jacques Duquesne : Grandpa, what is God? Munich 2000
- Dominique Fernandez : The Triumph of the Pariah. Marburg 1993
- Dominique Fernandez: The twelve muses of Alexandre Dumas. Berlin 2002.
- José-Alain Fralon : The righteous man of Bordeaux. Munich 2001
- Max Gallo : Napoleon. Berlin 2002 (in 4 books: 1. The Departure; 2. The Sun of Austerlitz. 3. Emperor of the Kings; 4. The Immortal)
- Marek Halter : The Messiah Code. Berlin 2005
- Pierre Merle : Robert Merle . A seductive life. Biography. Berlin 2009
- Pierre Mertens : A bicycle, a kingdom and the rest of the world. Berlin 1996
- Emmanuel Moses : Dancing Dust in the Sunlight. Berlin 2000
- Georges Moustaki : son of the mist. Munich 2001
- Pierre Radványi : Beyond the Stream. Berlin 2005
- Annette Wieviorka : Mom, what is Auschwitz? Berlin 2000
Web links
- Literature by and about Manfred Flügge in the catalog of the German National Library
- Manfred Flügge
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Flügge, Manfred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolding , Denmark |