Mechthild Curtius
Mechthild Elisabeth Curtius (born February 11, 1939 in Kassel ; also Mechthild Curtius-Hauke ; née Wittig ) is a German writer and literary scholar .
Life
Since she was 16, she worked as a student trainee, working in factories, offices, banks, bars and the university library. Finally, she completed a degree in German, Romance studies, ethnosociology and art history in Marburg an der Lahn. As a literary scholar, she wrote theoretical books and essays. In 1971 she did her doctorate with a thesis on Elias Canetti . In 1982 she published her habilitation on "Erotic Utopias with Thomas Mann" .
She has a daughter and a son and lives in Marburg.
Her main themes are the aesthetics of creativity, perception and remembering, and landscape as a metaphor of creation. She published books a. a. published by Bouvier, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Suhrkamp , Insel, Benziger, Athenaeum, S. Fischer , Schöningh, Aufbau. Her work also includes landscape and literature programs (text and direction) on ARD, as well as essays and short stories in anthologies and literary magazines.
Works (selection)
- Fashion and Society , European Publishing House 1971/1973.
- Theories of artistic productivity , Suhrkamp 1975.
- Wasserschierling , Tales, Insel 1979.
- Jelängerjelieber , Roman, Benziger 1983.
- Neisse and Pleiße , Roman, structure 1999.
Prizes and awards
- 1983 Würzburg Literature Prize
- 1988 Script award from the Minister of Education of North Rhine-Westphalia (together with Olaf Hauke )
- 1989 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Prize for Literature
- 1996 Main Kinzig Culture Prize
- 2001 Writer in Residence of the City of Graz
- 2002 Moldavian scholarship
Web links
- Literature by and about Mechthild Curtius in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mechthild Curtius in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- Homepage of the author
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SURNAME | Curtius, Mechthild |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Curtius, Mechthild Elisabeth (full name); Curtius-Hauke, Mechthild (full name); Wittig, Mechthild (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and literary scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |