Marion Gay

Marion Gay (born April 22, 1968 in Hamm in Westphalia; former name: Marion Kortsteger , pseudonym: Mara Park ;) is a German writer and critic .

Life and activities

In 2001, Kortsteger was awarded by the magazine Am Erker .

Marion Gay grew up in Hamm ( Westphalia ) and Meleto Valdarno ( Italy ) (1971–73). She studied art history at the University of Passau and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and trained as a commercial artist. She writes art and theater reviews for the Westfälischer Anzeiger and book reviews for the literary magazine Am Erker . She has two children and temporarily lived with the sculptor Gordon Brown in Hamm. Between 2012 and 2017 extended stays in Ellsworth (Maine)

The stylistically and thematically varied prose in Gays stories is artfully shortened. The mostly female protagonists are not satisfied with their everyday lives. The literary critic Joachim Feldmann characterizes her stories as " sometimes exaggerated, grotesque and sometimes of an almost painful seriousness [...] This is how this prose takes on its very own, fresh tone, seldom in the new German narrative literature ".

Awards

• 2001: Short story award from the literary magazine Am Erker
• 2002: Literature Prize Münster Literature Master
• 2013: Prize for the Ruhr Literature Prize
• 2014: Work grant from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2014: Literature working grant from the Kunststiftung NRW
• 2017: Shortlist of Murderous Sisters
• 2018: Working grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2019: Poetry Prize Postpoetry.NRW .

Publications

Books

• Marion Kortsteger: Mold plantations . Stories. Oktober Verlag, Münster 2004. ISBN 978-3-938568-00-2
• Marion Kortsteger: Eerie legends from the Münsterland . Prolibris, Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-935263-26-0
• Marion Kortsteger: Münsterland - legends of palaces and castles . Prolibris, Kassel 2005. ISBN 3-935263-36-8
• Marion Gay: Wednesday, 6:45 p.m. - a course book . (Editor). Edition die Niche, Wadersloh 2006. ISBN 3-9810166-7-X
• Marion Kortsteger: The most beautiful legends from the Münsterland . Prolibris, Kassel 2007. ISBN 978-3-935263-50-4
• Marion Gay: Doors to Fantasy. Creative writing in class . Authors' House Verlag, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-86671-045-0
• Marion Gay: Poetry . In: Gordon Brown (illustrations): Wood tides . Exhibition catalog. Kunstverein Hamm, Hamm 2008. ISBN 978-3-000-25136-8
• Marion Gay: Three suns over Münster. An Anabaptist novel . Oktober Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-938568-93-4
• Marion Gay: Romy Schneider died shortly before Haarlem . Stories. Oktober Verlag, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-944369-46-4
• Mara Park: Dark clouds. A Maine thriller . Piper Exciting, 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-50148-4
• Marion Gay: Doors to Poetry. Writing poetry with children and young people . Authors House Verlag, Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-86671-149-5

Narratives (selection)

• Marion Kortsteger: Hamberg . In: Concepts . No. 21. 2001. ISSN  0179-0676
• Marion Kortsteger: river mussels . In: Signs & Miracles . No. 40.2001. ISSN  0946-1809
• Marion Kortsteger: Chocolate . In: Clams . Viersen 2002. ISSN  0085-3593
• Marion Kortsteger: Desert . In: ndl . Structure of the publishing house . Berlin 2002
• Marion Kortsteger: Berlin . In: Am-Erker-Kurzgeschichtenpreis . Audio book. 2 CDs. Münster 2003. ISBN 3-925084-44-4
• Marion Gay: The village . In: At the bay window . No. 54. Münster 2007. ISBN 978-3-89126-554-3

Translations

• Lady Wiggins and her seven wonderful cats . Written principally by a Lady of Ninety. From the English. Illustrated German-English edition. edition tieger, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86671-053-5

Quote

“ Grandma had green cat eyes and the softest skin anyone could have, and I thought she was much more beautiful than my mother. Anyway, I didn't believe that she should be the mom of my well-behaved, narrow-minded mother who always served savoy cabbage and kohlrabi instead of chocolate and with whom I was never allowed to jump from the shoe cupboard. "

- Marion Gay

literature

• Jens Dirksen: Mold plantations . In: NRZ on Sunday February 20, 2005
• Joachim Feldmann: Fresh tone . In: At the bay window . 50. Münster 2005. ISSN  0721-0493
• Esther Kraus: In no man's land . In: signs and wonders. Magazine for culture . Frankfurt / M. 2005. ISSN  0946-1809
• Dagmar Meschede: Scary. Marion Kortsteger tells uncanny legends from the Münsterland . In: Westfälischer Anzeiger of December 28, 2004
• Ralf Stiftel: Schokladensüß . In: Westfälischer Anzeiger of February 9, 2005
• Bernd Veltmann: When Rembrandt was in Anholt . In: Bocholter-Borkener Volksblatt from December 15, 2005
• Ralf Stiftel: Short stories by Marion Gay . In: Westfälischer Anzeiger of November 18, 2015
• Frank Lingnau: The art of allusion . In: At the bay window . 71st Münster 2016.

Web links

• Literature by and about Marion Gay in the catalog of the German National Library (Marion Gay)
• Literature by and about Marion Gay in the catalog of the German National Library (Marion Kortsteger)
• Marion Gay in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Carola Gruber: Marion Gays writing games. A plea for creative writing as a subject

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Literaturport.de
2. ↑ Marion Gay. Retrieved on February 19, 2020 (German). 
3. ^ Marion Gay - Author Lexicon. Retrieved February 27, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Quote: Joachim Feldmann: Fresh sound . In: At the bay window . 50th Münster 2005
5. ↑ The 2017 scholarship holder - Murderous Sisters. Retrieved February 19, 2020 . 
6. ^ Marion Gay - Author Lexicon. Retrieved February 19, 2020 . 
7. ↑ postpoetryNRW. Retrieved February 19, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Mold plantations . Münster 2004. p. 45
9. ^ Short stories by Marion Gay. November 18, 2015, accessed February 19, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Frank Lingnau about Marion Gay: 'Romy Schneider died shortly before Haarlem' (Am Erker 71, June 2016). Retrieved February 19, 2020 .