Marie-Luise Scherer

This article deals with the German writer. An article about the painter and illustrator of the same name can be found under Marie Luise Scherer .

Marie-Luise Scherer (born October 15, 1938 in Saarbrücken ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

Marie-Luise Scherer started as a reporter for the Kölner Stadtanzeiger and then wrote for the Berliner Morgenpost and Die Zeit . From 1974 to 1998 she was a writer for Spiegel , where she became known for her literary reports.

About her text production, which she characterized as "syllable work", she said: "Two good sentences in one day are lucky."

Friedmar Apel wrote in the FAZ on June 4, 2004: "In the tradition of Walter Benjamin , Marie-Luise Scherer is a physiognomist of the world of things, like him she also trained her method on the fleeting phenomena of clothing fashion."

Gustav Seibt said: “Nothing seems to be left of her own subjectivity, except an excessively heightened sensitivity, which is almost painful while reading. The tone of voice is completely unfeuilletonistic, it is characterized by an almost impersonal omniscience, which is expressed in a sometimes splendidly pathetic style of statement. The world itself speaks here. "

The award of the Saarland Art Prize 2012 to Scherer was approved by the jury u. a. So justified: "Your texts set an accent against the speed of journalistic presentations, they are stories with a precisely researched background."

Her texts have been translated into French, Italian and Spanish.

Scherer lives in a Wendland village on the Elbe, not far from the former border with the GDR.

Awards

• 1970: Theodor Wolff Prize
• 1977: Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for The Condition of Being a Helpless Person in Der Spiegel
• 1979: Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for In German Said: Stumpelt in Der Spiegel
• 1989: Siebenpfeiffer Prize
• 1994: Ludwig Börne Prize
• 2008: Italo Svevo Prize
• 2011: Heinrich Mann Prize
• 2012: Saarland Art Prize (literature)
• 2015: Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize together with Stefan Chwin
• 2015: Member of the Academy of Arts , Berlin

Works

• Tremendous everyday life. Stories and reports . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988, ISBN 3-498-06225-5 .
• The accordion player. True stories from four decades , The Other Library series , edited by Hans-Magnus Enzensberger near Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-8218-4541-4 (paperback edition: Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006).
• The Beast of Paris and Other Stories . Verlag Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2012, 151 pp.
• The dog limit . Verlag Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2013, 90 pp. ISBN 9783882210774 .
• There was dancing under each lamp . Wallstein Verlag 2014, 80 pp. ISBN 978-3-8353-1420-7 .
• The accordion player . Verlag Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2017, 142 pp. ISBN 978-3-95757-325-4

literature

• Angelika Overath : Half the bread of the birds. On the language of the journalist Marie-Luise Scherer. In: Half the bread of the birds. Portraits and passages. Wallstein, Göttingen 2004.
• Katharina Teutsch: The wild, delicate reporter's heart . FAZ, October 27, 2012, p. Z1 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Marie-Luise Scherer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Marie-Luise Scherer at perlentaucher.de
• Arno Widmann: Only one came through: Marie-Luise Scherer (essay about Scherer on Perlentaucher from 2004)
• Marie-Luise Scherer at the Reporter Forum
• Texts by Marie-Luise Scherer in Spiegel 1974–1994
• In the old days . In: ZEIT , August 14, 2013. Acceptance speech M.-L. Scherers on the occasion of the award of the Saarland Art Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julika Pohle: The text grows syllable by syllable. In Die Welt on December 10, 2004, accessed on April 12, 2011.
2. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 2, 2004
3. ↑ Saarland Art Prize to Marie-Luise Scherer . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (Culture) of March 22, 2012
4. ^ New members of the Akademie der Künste | Academy of Arts - Berlin. In: www.adk.de. Retrieved July 8, 2016 . 
5. ^ Paris sober - and cruel , review by Helmut Böttiger on Deutschlandfunk from December 10, 2012