Monika Taubitz

Monika Taubitz (2012) in the "Skowronki" cathedral / Lerchenfeld house

Monika Taubitz (born September 2, 1937 in Breslau , Lower Silesia Province ) is a German poet and writer of prose (novel, story , short story, essay , factual text and radio play ).

Life

Monika Taubitz spent her childhood in the Lower Silesian towns of Markt Bohrau near Strehlen , in the most recently bombed Breslau and in Eisersdorf in the Glatz district .

After the expulsion in 1946, she first lived in Nordenham . In 1951 she moved to the Allgäu . From 1953 to 1958 she attended the advanced high school in Ochsenhausen . Then she started studying in Weingarten / Württemberg. From 1965 she worked as a teacher in Meersburg on Lake Constance , where she still lives today.

She writes poetry and prose and is also an editor. Since 1996 Monika Taubitz has headed the Wangener Kreis - Society for Literature and Art “The East”, and in 2011 she was elected honorary chairman. Many of her works have also been translated into Polish, including a selection of poems A country gave me its word. Poems about Silesia / Ten kraj dał mi słowo swoje. Wiersze o Śląsku (bilingual edition Wrocław / Dresden 2006, 2nd extended edition Wrocław / Dresden 2007). The poems were written over the course of several years and have appeared in volumes of poetry.

Works

• Falling stars. With linocuts. 1968. OCLC 32587910.
• Shadows over the fountain. 1971. OCLC 74136419.
• Test flight. Poems 1974. OCLC 2426240.
• Silesia - diary of a trip. 1973/1977. OCLC 74172999.
• Through gaps in the fence 1977, ISBN 9783921519141 , Polish Przez dziurę w płocie. 2007.
• Throwing nets. Poems 1978. ISBN 9783921519240 .
• You, cobweb time, got caught in the web. 1983. OCLC 74675201.
• Troubled questioning. A radio play in 1982.
• Flotsam. 1983. ISBN 9783791810492 .
• There Katharina goes or singing in the fiery furnace. Sigmaringen 1984. ISBN 9783799516440 .
• A country gave me its word / Ten kraj dał mi słowo swoje. Poems about Silesia. Dresden / Wrocław 2007. ISBN 9783934038509 .
• Siding. Novel. Dresden 2007. ISBN 9783934038783 .
• Leonhard's house. Novel. Dresden 2009. ISBN 9783940310538 .
• Before invisible shores / U niewidzialnych brzegów. Poems. Dresden / Wrocław 2009. ISBN 9783940310903 .
• Winter album. Novel. Dresden 2011. ISBN 9783862760176 .
• On the train - by the way: poems on the go . Dresden 2011. ISBN 9783862760282 .
• Disused tracks. Poems. Dresden 2012. ISBN 9783862760732 .
• Almut's letters. Novel. Dresden 2013. ISBN 9783862761081 .
• River life. Poems. Dresden 2013. ISBN 9788379770120 .
• Folk calendar for Silesians . Landshut, Isar Aufstieg Verlag, 2016. ISBN 9783761203507 .
• Ash and ruby. Helene von Bothmer . A biography , Dresden 2016. ISBN 9783862761913 .
• Take a seagull feather ... / GMT pióro mewy ... . Dresden, Neisse Verlag, 2019. ISBN 9783862762613 .
• Jacob's Gardens . Dresden, Neisse Verlag, 2019. ISBN 9783862762811 .

Awards and honors

In 1978 she received the Eichendorff Literature Prize . In 2012 she also received the Andreas Gryphius Prize . For her many years of voluntary work for her Silesian homeland and her adopted home in Baden-Württemberg, the poet was also awarded the Baden-Württemberg Home Medal . With her work, she has always advocated understanding between Germans and Eastern Europeans. In January 2014 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her contribution to international understanding. In November 2016 Monika Taubitz was awarded the Nikolaus Lenau Prize for her volume of 2013 poetry, Flußleben . On February 22, 2018, Monika Taubitz became the first honorary citizen of the city of Meersburg.

Movies

• Heimatmedaille - portrait of Monika Taubitz on YouTube

Web links

Commons : Monika Taubitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Monika Taubitz in the catalog of the German National Library .

• Taubitz, Monika. In: Kulturportal Ost-West
• Sylvia Floetemeyer: Monika Taubitz: Writing as the elixir of life. In: "Südkurier", September 1, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Rasim: 61. Wangen talks in the Allgäu. In: Wochenblatt.pl . Retrieved December 26, 2013 . 
2. ↑ New publications. Monika Taubitz. Ash and ruby . (No longer available online.) In: Neisse Verlag. November 17, 2016, archived from the original on March 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Monika Taubitz receives the Andreas Gryphius Prize. In: Esslinger Zeitung . September 18, 2012, accessed December 26, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Gryphius Prize for Monika Taubitz. (No longer available online.) Neisse Verlag , October 31, 2012, archived from the original on September 8, 2017 ; accessed on January 11, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Christa Mühlbauer: Home medal for Monika Taubitz. In: Südkurier . September 17, 2013, accessed December 26, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Sylvia Floetemeyer: Federal Cross of Merit for Monika Taubitz. In: Südkurier. January 11, 2014, accessed January 13, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Sylvia Floetemeyer: Nikolaus Lenau Prize for Monika Taubitz. In: Südkurier. November 17, 2016, accessed December 14, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Sylvia Floetemeyer, Martin Baur: Monika Taubitz is the first honorary citizen of the town of Meersburg. In: Südkurier. December 12, 2017, accessed February 1, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Barbara Baur: Monika Taubitz is now officially an honorary citizen. In: Swabian. February 23, 2018, accessed February 25, 2018 .