Regula Venske

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Regula Venske at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017.

Regula Venske (born June 12, 1955 in Minden ) is a German writer , literary scholar and President of the PEN Center Germany since April 28, 2017 .

Life

Venske studied law in Heidelberg and German and English in Hamburg , and she wrote her state examination thesis through Fanny Lewald . From 1982 to 1986 she worked as a research assistant, lecturer and lecturer at the University of Hamburg, the Free University of Berlin and the Queen Mary, University of London .

In 1987 Regula Venske received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on Mannsbilder - Männerbilder. Construction and criticism of the masculine in contemporary German-language literature from women to doctorate in philosophy. Since then she has been working as a freelance author in Hamburg, occasionally interrupted by activities as a consultant for vocational training in the media sector at the Bertelsmann Foundation , literary editor at Brigitte and publishing director at Rotbuch-Verlag .

In 1991 she published her first detective novel, Wrapped Wrong . More books followed, including three collaborative novels with other authors. She has also published numerous short stories, books for children and young people, and experimental prose texts. She also served several times as a publisher and translated in a new Werkausgabe the crime novel cyanide by Agatha Christie into German.

Regula Venske is a member of the PEN Center Germany and has been its General Secretary since 2013. At the annual general meeting on April 28, 2017, Venske was elected to succeed Josef Haslinger as the new President of the PEN Center Germany. In this role, she also fights against the persecution of the Ugandan writer and activist Stella Nyanzi .

Venske lives with her family in Hamburg. The actor, cabaret artist, presenter and writer Henning Venske is her brother.

As a representative of a professional and socio-political institution, she also repeatedly takes a position on socio-political issues, for example in daily media such as the Frankfurter Rundschau , the taz or the Junge Welt .

Detective novels

Youth books

  • 1988 Oh Fanny! From Jewish girl to Prussian writer: Fanny Lewald, Elefanten Press, Berlin
  • 1998 The stolen saint , Kerle Verlag, Freiburg
  • 2000 A house on the move , Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim
  • 2003 Lale and the golden letter , Gerstenberg
  • 2004 The normal madness , Bertelsmann
  • 2009 When Papa shot the moon down , with pictures by Karoline Kehr. Tulipan Publishing House

Non-fiction

  • 1986 Or was there something else sometimes? Texts on Marlen Haushofer , New Critique Verlag, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1987 Women's literature without tradition? (together with Inge Stephan and Sigrid Weigel). Nine portraits of women authors, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1988 Images of Men - Images of Men. Construction and criticism of the masculine in contemporary German-language literature by women, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim
  • 1994 Weiberjahnn. A polemic about Hans Henny Jahnn (as editor)
  • 1991 The Disappearance of the Man in the Female Typewriter , Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Hamburg and Zurich
  • 2003 (Ed.): You shouldn't kill. Twelve crimes from the Bible

Awards

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Regula Venske is the new President of the German PEN Center , Deutsche Welle from April 29, 2017, accessed April 29, 2017
  2. ↑ https://www.pen-deutschland.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Stella-Nyanzi.pdf
  3. ↑ See for example: "Increasingly borrowing from Nazi rhetoric". PEN center outraged about language brutalization by rights, young world, May 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Venske, Regula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden