Margret Buerschaper

Margret Buerschaper (born April 22, 1937 in Wissen ; † April 20, 2016 in Lutten ) was a German author.

Live and act

Buerschaper grew up in birch honey dinners , where her father worked as a teacher until he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942. After studying pedagogy , she settled in Vechta , where she lived until the end of her life. Margret Buerschaper worked as a teacher from 1963 until her retirement in 2001. In 1978 she obtained the title Magister of Arts.

As a writer, Margret Buerschaper has published more than twenty books, the spectrum of which ranges from poetry to factual subjects to biography. So she wrote a biographical work about the writer Carl Heinz Kurz , with whom she had a literary friendship. There are also numerous articles in magazines and anthologies.

Together with Carl Heinz Kurz , she founded the German Haiku Society in 1988 , of which she was president from the year it was founded until 2003. She was the editor of the literary magazine Sommergras . Buerschaper also published poetological treatises on Japanese poetry in German form.

Margret Buerschaper was married and had three children.

Works (selection)

Between the paths. Tower room thoughts. Göttingen 1986, ISBN 978-3-88996-105-1
Summer snow. Haiku, Senryu, Hai-Sen, Tanka. Göttingen 1993, ISBN 978-3-88996-345-1
... and sometimes the sun falls in my garden. Göttingen 1996, ISBN 978-3-88996-418-2
The country where I live . Vechta 1997, ISBN 3-88441-149-7

literature

Barbara Stroszer: Nature and Haiku poetry, illustrated using selected examples by the poet Margret Buerschaper (Master's thesis at the Univ. Gorze, Poland) 1993

Andreas Wittbrodt: Depth of the moment. Essays on the poetics of German-language haiku . Hamburg 2004 ( ISBN 9783937257105 )

Individual evidence

^ Margret Buerschaper: Carl Heinz Kurz - a German Haijin. Biographical and literary considerations. Göttingen: Graphicum 1988 ( ISBN 978-3-88996-198-3 )
↑ Margret Buerschaper: The German short poem in the tradition of Japanese poetry forms (Haiku, Senryü, Tanka, Renga). Historical and generic presentation . Göttingen 1987 and Margret Buerschaper: "The German Haiku". In: Quarterly magazine of the German Haiku Society 1, No. 1, 1988

personal data
SURNAME	Buerschaper, Margret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Knowledge
DATE OF DEATH	April 20, 2016
Place of death	Lutten

[1] Margret Buerschaper: Carl Heinz Kurz - a German Haijin. Biographical and literary considerations. Göttingen: Graphicum 1988 ( ISBN 978-3-88996-198-3 )

[2] Margret Buerschaper: The German short poem in the tradition of Japanese poetry forms (Haiku, Senryü, Tanka, Renga). Historical and generic presentation . Göttingen 1987 and Margret Buerschaper: "The German Haiku". In: Quarterly magazine of the German Haiku Society 1, No. 1, 1988