Pieke Biermann

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Pieke Biermann (born on March 22, 1950 in Stolzenau as Lieselotte Hanna Eva Biermann ) is a German detective writer , literary translator and journalist . She is the recipient of the translator award of the Leipzig Book Fair 2020. In the 1970s and 80s she was also known as a feminist activist of the Berlin women's movement .

life and work

Pieke Biermann moved from Stolzenau to Hanover in 1955 . She graduated from the Helene Lange School . From 1968 she studied German literature and language with Hans Mayer as well as English and political science at the University of Hanover . She spent a year of study in Padua in 1973/74 and began doing her first translation work. She completed her studies in 1976 at the TU Hannover with a master's thesis on the subject of unpaid housework . She then received a graduate scholarship for a dissertation that she did not finish.

She has lived in Berlin since 1976 and works as a freelance translator of English, American and Italian literature into German. She translated Dacia Maraini , Dorothy Parker , Tom Rachman and others. a. She has translated some of Agatha Christie's novels , such as Death on the Nile and The Owl House . Biermann was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair 2020 prize for the transmission of Oreo , the only novel by the Afro-American writer Fran Ross , which got its special sound from Yiddish . The literary criticism by Antje Rávik Strubel praised it as a "grandiose achievement" of the translator, "that the countless language games, onomatopoeia and the wealth of words are transferred into German and the linguistic pleasure and great humor of the text convey".

From 1976 on Pieke Biermann was an activist in the Berlin women's movement and was considered the "front woman" of the West German whore movement in the 1980s. She founded u. a. with Gisela Bock and Barbara Duden the “wages for housework” group, which went back to an international feminist movement that arose in the USA in the early 1970s. The group advocated that not only household chores, but also prostitution a custom work like any other and had sex a way for women in patriarchy to gain independence. With this approach, Biermann, who herself worked as a sex worker for a time, initiated a prostitute campaign. Her book "We are women like others!", Prostitutes and their struggles , published in 1980 by Rowohlt Verlag polarized the women's movement. It was reissued in 2014, supplemented with five speeches and essays by Pieke Biermann from 1980 to 2007. Biermann was a co-founder and board member of the Berlin prostitute organization Hydra and was one of the initiators of the first German "whore ball", which took place on February 6, 1988 in the International Congress Center Berlin .

Biermann became known in particular as a writer of crime fiction . Her debut novel was published in 1987. She received the German Crime Prize three times . Biermann developed their crime stories as private stories against the background of Berlin and designed a panorama of life forms. The model is the expressionist city ​​novel .

“ Berlin is to me what Los Angeles is to Raymond Chandler or Amsterdam to Janwillem van de Wetering - the unknown metropolis of the western world: a city that seems to be made up of myths. I want to tell Berlin in novels that tell of facts. "

- Pieke Biermann

Your series of four Berlin novels with the commissioner "Karin Lietze" begins with the death of Potsdam during the Cold War . The last novel in the series Vier, Fünf, Sechs (the title alludes to Billy Wilder's comedy Eins, Zwei, Drei from 1961) deals with “Berlin tormented by unification problems”. Murder is a minor matter. Biermann leads on a topographical route through the city in order to "bring criminal case, contemporary history, problems of the turning point, big city dynamics, life stories under the hat of a socially critical entertainment novel", so the reviewer Thomas Medicus . He criticized the "egalitarian scene jargon" that ran through the novel. Florian Felix Weyh read the language of her crime short stories Berlin, Kabbala , which appeared in the same year, in a completely different way . He felt atmospherically reminded of Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz . The noise of the big city is an acoustic pattern above and below Biermann's texts. "The reader has to be able to hear, sometimes even have a say, in order to make sense of dialects and sociolects ."

As a journalist Pieke Biermann wrote court and literary crime reports for print media and radio, political feature sections and literary reviews. She is an author a. a. at Tagesspiegel and Deutschlandfunk Kultur . In 2002 the Jüdische Allgemeine gave her the task of commenting on Jewish life from a non-Jewish perspective. Her column appeared for over a year and a half under the title Gojisch Seen . The collected texts were published as a book in 2004. In the epilogue Michael Daxner stated that Biermann's columns "besides all the humor and lightness [...] are also proof that ' Goyan self-confidence' does not have to be anti-Semitic".

Awards

Works

As editor
  • With anger, charm & method. Or: Enlightenment is female. 13 crime stories, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-10839-X .
  • Wilde Weiber GmbH. Crime stories. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-11586-8 .

Translations

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data Pieke Biermann , in: Silvio Vietta (ed.): The literary Berlin in the 20th century. With current addresses and information. Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-15-010481-1 , p. 214
  2. ^ Pieke Biermann: Job description : Heart of the family. Self-published, Berlin 1977. (= wages for housework - materials for an international feminist strategy, No. 1)
  3. ↑ Antje Strubel Ravik: Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Black and white results in colorful , Deutschlandfunk, March 12, 2020
  4. ^ Marie Schmidt : Profile. Pieke Biermann. Translator who goes through fire for some books. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 12, 2020 ( online behind the paywall )
  5. ↑ Almuth Waldenberger: The whore movement. History and debates in Germany and Austria , LIT Verlag, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-50597-2 , p. 198
  6. ↑ Ilse Lenz : The new women's movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 , p. 153 ff.
  7. ↑ Questions to Pieke Biermann , Der Spiegel, January 18, 1988
  8. ↑ Maria Neef-Utthoff: Tell me where the whores are , Taz Archive, February 8, 1988
  9. ↑ Görtz, Franz Josef (1994), Pieke Biermann in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Magazin Heft 744, 22nd week of June 3rd. Quoted by Stefanie Abt: Social inquiry in the current crime novel. Using the example of Henning Mankell, Ulrich Ritzel and Pieke Biermann . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8244-4605-7 , p. 21, fn 22
  10. ↑ Thomas Medicus: Everything will be fine in Tempelhof , review, FAZ, February 19, 1998
  11. ↑ Berlin, Kabbala , review by Florian Felix Weyh, Deutschlandfunk (wrong date on website)
  12. ^ Frank Auffenberg: Feels like temperatures. Pieke Biermann's columns on the Goy-Jewish relationship - a plea of ​​reason , in: Kritische Ausgabe I / 2005 (pdf)
  13. ↑ Journalist Awards, Prize Winner 2009
  14. ↑ Pieke Biermann , zeit.de, received the translator award , published and accessed March 12, 2020

annotation

  1. ↑ 'Pieke' Biermann is her registered artist name by her own account.
personal data
SURNAME Biermann, Pieke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biermann, Lieselotte Hanna Eva (real name); Cronau, Gabriele (pseudonym); Still, Sara (pseudonym); Kraus, Kim (pseudonym); Schöneberg, Sola (pseudonym); Soldi, Dörte (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German crime writer and literary translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolzenau