Margot Scharpenberg

Margot Scharpenberg (birth name and pseudonym of Margot Wellmann ; born December 18, 1924 in Cologne ) is an American writer of German origin.

Life

Margot Scharpenberg was temporarily obliged to work as a worker in a Pomeranian factory after her school- leaving examination , which she passed in 1943 . From 1944 to 1947 she trained as a qualified librarian at the University Library in Cologne . From 1948 to 1960 she worked on the central catalog of the North Rhine-Westphalian libraries in Cologne . From 1957 until his death in 1980 she was married to the physician and rock art researcher Klaus F. Wellmann. Together with him, she stayed in the United States for the first time in 1957/58 . From 1960 to 1962, taught Margot Scharpenberg German at Carleton University in Canada Ottawa . She has lived in New York since 1962 , but spends two months a year in Germany. Scharpenberg has been a citizen of the United States since 1968 .

In addition to short stories, Margot Scharpenberg's work mainly includes poetry . In the 1950s, Scharpenberg was considered to be an important young lyrical talent who was occasionally put on the same level as Ingeborg Bachmann . She is now the most important representative of the pictorial poem in contemporary German-language literature.

Margot Scharpenberg is a member of the PEN Center for German-Language Authors Abroad , GEDOK and the Association of Germanists in the USA, the feminist organization Women in German , often referred to as WiG for short. The author received u. a. The following awards: 1968 the Georg Mackensen Literature Prize , 1975 the Ida Dehmel Literature Prize of GEDOK and in 1988 the Robert L. Kahn Poetry Prize .

Works

• Dangerous exercise , Munich 1957
• Mirror writings , Munich 1961
• Brandbaum , Darmstadt 1965
• Black-and-white. 3 etchings by Rolf Sackenheim. 11 sheets (Hundertdruck; 2), Duisburg 1966. (Edition of 100 copies, signed by the author and artist.)
• Presumed calm , Krefeld 1968
• With language and finger tips , Duisburg 1970
• A death row inmate and other stories , Frankfurt a. M. 1970
• Invitation to New York , Munich [a. a.] 1972
• Dangerous exercise. Poems. Munich 1957. 59 pp.
• Mirror writing. New poems. Munich 1961. 60 pp.
• A death row inmate and other narratives. Frankfurt / M., 1970. 203 pp.
• Invitation to New York. With photos by Klaus Wellmann. Munich, Vienna, 1972. 246 pages.
• Spielraum , Krefeld 1972
• Traces. Duisburg 1973
• Picture conversations with Zillis , Beuron 1974
• Merry Christmas and other resumes. Stories. Munich, Vienna, 1974. 255 pp. ISBN 3-7844-1558-X
• New tracks , Duisburg 1975
• Change of an order , Duisburg 1976
• Find figure , Duisburg 1977
• Image discussions in Aachen , Duisburg 1978
• Location Cologne , Duisburg 1979
• Cathedral talk , Duisburg 1980
• Modern art in picture conversation , Duisburg 1982
• Falling colors , Duisburg 1983
• Windbruch , Duisburg 1985
• Postponed times , Duisburg 1988
• Eyewitness reports , Duisburg 1991
• Frame change , Duisburg 1992
• 31 x Klee , Wuppertal 1995
• Oppositions and contradictions , Duisburg 1995
• When colors bloom , Mühlacker 1999
• Zillis back in conversation: poems on the Romanesque church ceiling of St. Martin in Zillis. Beuron 2001. 47 p., Numerous illustrations.
• From scores, bookmarks and so on: 60 poems. With collages and cover picture by Annegret Heinl. Duisburg 2003. 124 pp. ISBN 3-925348-56-5
• Transform. 60 scattered and new poems. Duisburg 2009. ISBN 978-3-925348-81-5
• 2 poems in: Writing a thousand deaths. (Version 2/4). Edited by Christiane Frohmann. Berlin, January 2015. ISBN ePub: 978-3-944195-55-1, ISBN mobi: 978-3-944195-56-8

literature

• Bibliography Margot Scharpenberg , Mönchengladbach: City Library, 1973. 37 pp.
• About Margot Scharpenberg . With contributions by Martha Camfield, Ilse-Marie Gates and others. a. (Carleton Germanic Papers; 21) Ottawa, Ont. 1993. 107 pp.
• Ulrich K. Goldsmith : Two poems by Margot Scharpenberg - critically illuminated. In: Encounters. Facets of a century. Helmut Kreuzer on his 70th birthday. Edited by Doris Rosenstein and Anja Kreutz. Siegen 1997. 478 pp. ISBN 3-932212-07-X
• Rainer Hering: The writer Margot Scharpenberg and Bibliography Margot Scharpenberg . In: Muschelhaufen No. 46. Annual journal for literature and graphics. Viersen 2006. ISSN  0085-3593
• Gert Niers: Sound from Silence: Poet Margot Scharpenberg. In: German Life , February / March 2007. Denville, NJ

Web links

• Literature by and about Margot Scharpenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Margot Scharpenberg on NRWLiteratur in the net .
• Scharpenberg on the Exil-PEN website
• Coalition of Women in German [1]