Pilar builder

Pilar Baumeister (born August 25, 1948 as Pilar Andreo Vila in Barcelona , Spain ; † December 19, 2021 ) was a Spanish-German author of poetry , novels , literary essays and short stories . She has been blind since she was born , but only wrote secondarily about blind-specific topics such as in her dissertation or in some short stories such as Blind, but not sterile . Your literature is especially by Kafka, Multi-perspectives and surrealism .

Life

Pilar Baumeister was born in Barcelona in 1948 and lived in Germany from 1975: the first four years in Bonn and Marburg , from 1979 in Cologne . She studied German, English and Russian philology . In 1990 she completed her doctorate in German at the University of Cologne with her dissertation The literary figure of the blind in the 19th and 20th centuries - clichés, prejudices and realistic depictions of the blind's fate .

In 1992 she and other authors founded the nationwide association for blind and visually impaired writers and their friends. V., which dissolved after a short existence, but from which the artistic Europe-wide project Lyrikbrücken by Bernd Kebelmann and other blind poets from ten countries arose.

From 2006 onwards, as a spokesperson for writers with multicultural roots, she led projects promoting readings by migrant authors in German. Before she retired in 2013, she worked as an administrative clerk at an energy supply company for over 30 years . Occasionally she worked as a lecturer for Spanish at the VHS Cologne and as a literary translator .

In 2018 she became a member of the PEN Center Germany, and from 2019 she was a member of the federal board of the Association of German Writers . She died in December 2021 and is to be buried on December 28, 2021 in the Kalker Friedhof in Cologne-Merheim.

Events

• Frequent readings in Spain, Madrid and Segovia, in cultural centers, cafes and in the German department of several grammar schools and language schools
• Various appearances in the dark with other blind poets at the Leipzig Book Fair 2009 and at the Berlin anniversary of the Lyrikbrücken 2013
• Appearances at the Migration Book Fair in Bonn
• Readings of the Intercultural Week Cologne until 2012 and follow-up readings with migrant authors
• Festival of multicultural literature in NRW 2015, which was organized by her

Works (selection)

• De vivos y muertos y otros misterios , Madrid, Editorial Nuevos Ekkos, colec. La palabra inquieta 2021; ISBN 978-84948511-9-3 .
• Dos países que se quieren, historias de España y Alemania , Toledo, 2018; ISBN 978-84-945889-5-2 .
• Mild mental disorders , Norderstedt, 2016; ISBN 978-3739233581 .
• Clouded Relationships - Stories , Norderstedt, 2015; ISBN 978-3739205199 .
• The Mind Reader - A fantastic novella , Norderstedt, 2015; ISBN 978-3738628548 .
• Me escondí, pero gritaba para que me oyesen - Poemas de Minerva y otras voces , (Spanish), Norderstedt, 2015; ISBN 978-3734771293 .
• A pesar de Franco - Los mejores momentos , (Spanish), Norderstedt, 2015; ISBN 978-3734766893 .
• See you tomorrow - stories about repetition rituals , Norderstedt, 2015; ISBN 978-3734790768 .
• Exotic Stories - Where Do I Come From? , Norderstedt, 2014; ISBN 978-3734741944 .
• The Pardis ship for everyone, including the blind , bilingual fairy tale (German-Spanish), Bonn, 2011; ISBN 978-3938114636 .
• We write suicide… writer's suicides in four centuries , Frankfurt am Main. 2010; ISBN 978-3631604588 .
• Lyrikbrücken, ten blind poets from ten European countries , multilingual anthology, Berlin, 2009; ISBN 978-3928832304 .
• Two countries that love each other, stories from Spain and Germany , Bonn, 2006; ISBN 978-3938114261 .
• The invention of the experienced. Stories about disability, eroticism, Jenseits , Essen, 2000; ISBN 978-3928401302 .
• Dissertation: The literary figure of the blind in the 19th and 20th centuries , Frankfurt am Main, 1990; ISBN 978-3631435090 .
• Women's Voices in Space , Norderstedt, 2016; ISBN 978-3741252730 .
• The trembling of widows , Norderstedt, 2016; ISBN 978-3839147443 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Pilar Baumeister in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Pilar Baumeister
• Susanne Konrad: Portrait - blindness and other topics in the work of Pilar Baumeister . In: Experimenta , June 2021 , p. 33 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Verdi VS press release of December 20, 2021: We mourn Pilar Baumeister , accessed on December 20, 2021
2. ↑ Pilar builder. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume I: AO. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 44.