Hisako Matsubara
Hisako Matsubara ( Japanese 松原 久 子 Matsubara Hisako ; born May 21, 1935 in Kyoto ) is a Japanese writer who writes primarily in German .
Life
Matsubara is the daughter of a Shinto priest. After the school leaving examination , which she took in Kyoto , she studied at the International Christian University in Tokyo , where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree . She continued her studies at Pennsylvania State University , where she obtained a Master of Arts . Further stations of her studies were Zurich , Marburg and Göttingen ; In 1970 she was at the Ruhr University in Bochum for doctor of philosophy doctorate.
After working as an editor in the United States at the end of the 1950s , she settled in Germany in 1969 and, inspired by her work with Heinrich Heine , began to write her works in German . She worked as a journalist and was first known for essays about Germany and the Germans in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and documentaries for ARD and ZDF . She achieved great sales success with her novels on topics from Japanese history, which have been published since the 1970s. From the mid-1980s, Hisako Matsubara was a researcher at the Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University . She has lived with her family in Los Altos , California, since 1987 .
Matsubara has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 1971 and of the American Art Directors Club since 1985 . For her work she received u. a. 1985 New York Critics Award ; In 1987 she was Writer in Residence at the East West Center in Manoa , Hawaii .
Matsubara is married to the German geophysicist Friedemann Freund . Their son, the physicist Minoru Freund (born 1962), died in 2012 of a brain tumor ( glioblastoma ). The woodcut artist Naoko Matsubara is her sister.
Works
Books
- The tale of the shining princess , Tokyo 1966
- View from almond eyes , Munich 1968
- This-sidedness and transcendence in the Taketori-Monogatari , doctoral thesis Bochum 1970
- Small world exhibition , Munich 1970
- Brocade rush , Hamburg 1978
- Glückspforte , Hamburg 1980
- Evening crane , Hamburg 1981
- Way to Japan , Hamburg 1983
- Bridge arch , Munich [u. a.] 1986
- Spaceship Japan , Munich [u. a.] 1989
- Karpfentanz , Munich 1994
- Sky Sign , Munich 1998
items
- I am learning german . Die Zeit, No. 44/1967
- Kyoto : residence of the emperors and gods. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1979.3, pp. 40-66. Informative experience report: "Hisako Matsubara, daughter of a high Shinto priest in Kyoto, describes her hometown and the impulses that emanated from here and changed the country". ISSN 0342-8311
- The clever Japanese . Mirror essay by the author from 1983.
- At home you don't live in paper houses . Die Zeit online contribution by the author.
Translations
- The story of the bamboo collector and the girl Kaguya . Ebenhausen near Munich 1968, see also Taketori Monogatari
literature
- Klaus Harpprecht: Hisako Matsubaras in German written novel about Japan's matriarchy - the castration of sons . Die Zeit, April 1, 1994
- Willy Huppert: The lucky ones from the moon . In: Die Zeit , No. 50/1969, review of the German edition of Taketori-monogatari (The story of the bamboo collector and the girl Kaguya)
- Sharon G. Carson: Violence in Female Education: Hisako Matsubara and Ella Leffland . Literature Interpretation Theory, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1991, pp. 151-161.
- Ulrike Reeg: Authors from the Asian cultural area . In: Carmine Chiellino (ed.): Intercultural literature in Germany: A manual . Springer, 2000, ISBN 9783476052643 , pp. 263-274, in particular pp. 265 ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hisako Matsubara in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hisako Matsubara on Munzinger Online
- http://japanische-literatur.blogspot.de/2011/10/hisako-matsubara.html
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary of Minoru Freund (1962-2012) . Physics Today, January 29, 2013
- ↑ Willy Huppert: The lucklessly lucky ones from the moon . Die Zeit, No. 50/1969
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Matsubara, Hisako |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 松原 久 子 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1935 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kyoto |