Margret Steckel

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Margret Steckel in 2007
Signature of Margret Steckel

Margret Steckel-Morsh (born April 26, 1934 in Rostock , née Steckel ) is a Luxembourgish writer of German origin. In 1997 she won the Prix ​​Servais for her work The Last of the Bayrischer Platz.

Life

Steckel was born in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1934 and grew up on her parents' farm near Rostock. In 1937, after leasing the property, the family moved into a country house east of the Elbe . Steckel graduated from high school in the GDR . The expropriation of her family in 1945 by the SED regime as well as the restrictions in the GDR caused her brother to flee to West Germany in 1953. Steckel, too, longed to be able to speak freely. Therefore, she followed her brother to West Berlin and left the GDR across the green border in 1955 .

She completed her English-language interpreting exam in West Berlin. Her degree enabled her to work as an assistant for dramaturgy and screenwriting in the film industry. Among other things, she translated English dubbing scripts and wrote a script herself. After their marriage in 1964, Margret Steckel moved to Ireland for twelve years . The reason for this was her husband's pharmaceutical factory. When the company was sold, the family settled in England for four years . During her stay abroad, she completed a distance learning course in German literature. She then moved to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg with her family . Steckel has been based in Luxembourg City since 1983 .

Margret Steckel has been writing her own texts since 1962. However, for over twenty years these manuscripts remained fragmentary. The first literary activities in public arose in 1989 through participation in the literary competition of the image of the woman and the Lambda Edition publishing house in Hamburg. Since 1990 she has published her short stories and short stories in cultural magazines, yearbooks and anthologies, including in the Lëtzebuerger Almanach , the Revue , Westermannsmonthshefte and Les Cahiers luxembourgeois . Her first novel was published in 1993.

Following her move to Luxembourg, she wrote articles for the RTL culture magazine Frequenzen . To this day she writes reviews for the Luxemburger Journal and Livres books .

Margret Steckel is a member of the PEN Center Germany . Until it was dissolved in 2016, she was a member of the Lëtzebuerger Schrëftstellerverband .

Works

Margret Steckel's works are often autobiographical. For example, she increasingly deals with memories of her childhood in Mecklenburg and the rise of National Socialism . Since 2000 she has been increasingly concerned with apparently intact relationships in society, emphasizing human powerlessness with regard to the ambivalence of free will and the confrontation with the real.

Novels

  • Night days. An Irish interlude , 1993
  • Never again anywhere , 1993
  • The tear from the wall , 2000
  • The actress and me , 2003
  • Servais. A family novel , 2010
  • Three words back and forth , 2014

Short prose

  • Aus-Weg-Los , 1989
  • The last one from Bayrischer Platz , 1996
  • Roses, roses. Three novels , 2000
  • At call range , 2007
  • The last concept , 2007
  • Seeing the light , 2016
  • Jette, Jakob and the others , 2017

Literary prizes

  • 1982: Literature Prize of the Hamburg Authors' Association
  • 1990: 1st prize in the storytelling competition of the East German Cultural Council Foundation
  • 1992: Concours littéraire national
  • 1997: Prix Servais

literature

  • Roger Manderscheid: The uprising of the Luxembourg all-literate: A subjective chronology of the zigzag course of the pen holder; Notes on the development of Luxembourg literature in the second half of the century. Ed. Phi, Esch / Alzette, 2003, ISBN 2-87962-155-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jochen Zenthöfer: Depressing childhood with "the brown ones" . In: Nordkurier . November 20, 2017, p. 25.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Margret Steckel. In: Luxembourg Authors' Lexicon. March 13, 2020, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Les Cahiers luxembourgeois. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ PEN Center Germany (Ed.): PEN Author Lexicon 2015/16 . Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86351-514-0 .
  5. ^ Members. PEN Center Germany, accessed on May 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Steckel, Margret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steckel-Morsh, Margret (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Luxembourgish writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock