Petra Urban (writer)

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Petra Urban

Petra Urban (born October 7, 1957 in Dohna ) is a German literary scholar and writer .

Life

Growing up in Düsseldorf , Petra Urban studied German and philosophy at the Heinrich Heine University after graduating from the Goethe-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf . In 1990 she received her doctorate with a thesis on a libretto by Richard Wagner : Liebesdämmerung - A psychoanalytic experiment on Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde . From 1986 to 1990 she worked as a freelance editor for the Düsseldorf women's newspaper KOM, MA and wrote literary and theater reviews for the features section of the Westdeutsche Zeitung (WZ).

Petra Urban has lived as a freelance writer in Bingen am Rhein since 1992 . Her publications include novels, short stories and non-fiction books. She leads seminars for “ creative writing ” at the adult education center in Bingen, gives lectures on literary and life-philosophical topics and is a lecturer in literature at the VHS Bingen and at the Academy of the Diocese of Mainz .

The Rhineland-Palatinate Literature Days, which take place every two years, made Bingen the city of literature in 2009. They were organized by Monika K. Böss, Volkmar Döring , Rüdiger Heins , Hans Tönjes Redenius and Petra Urban. From this she developed the idea of ​​an annual reading time in Bingen , which began for the first time in autumn 2011.

Works

  • Twilight of Love - A psychoanalytic experiment on Richard Wagner's 'Tristan and Isolde', Düsseldorf, Eschborn Verlag, Frankfurt, 1991, ISBN 3-88074-241-3 .
  • 23 essays in: Literary portraits: 163 authors from North Rhine-Westphalia / Ed. Peter K. Kirchhof, Schwann im Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1991, ISBN 3-491-34104-3 .
  • The female mole, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 1997, ISBN 3-596-13081-6 .
  • So Franziska was silent (story in: The fantasy is a woman) Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 1998, ISBN 3-596-13945-7 .
  • Septemberlicht, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 2003, ISBN 3-596-15531-2 .
  • Cash fight and kiss of the muses, together with Stefan Schrahe, Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim, 2005, ISBN 3-937782-39-7 .
  • Surrounded by vines, Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89801-037-5 .
  • Die Flaneurin, Leinpfad Verlag, Ingelheim, 2009, ISBN 978-3-937782-80-5 .
  • Life is an adventure or nothing at all, Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89680-495-2 .
  • Small town departure, encounter: proximity: enjoy, documentation on the 2nd literature prize, Stuttgarter Hefte 52/53, keb, 2012
  • My heart dances in the sky, Vier-Türme-Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-89680-805-9
  • Bubbling Life - Flowing Time, Vier-Türme-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89680-878-3
  • What an unheard-of desire to live - From big wounds and even bigger wings, Vier-Türme-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7365-0078-5
  • The scent of happiness - encounter in the mirror of the seasons, Vier-Türme-Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7365-0296-3

Release

Awards

  • Culture Prize of the City of Bingen, 2002
  • Friedrich Rudolf Engelhard Prize, 2003
  • Martha Saalfeld Award , 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Reading time in Bingen
personal data
SURNAME Urban, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Dohna