Renate Feyl

Renate Feyl (1975)

Renate Feyl (born July 30, 1944 in Prague ) is a German writer .

Life

Renate Feyl grew up in Jena . After graduating from high school , she worked as a freelance journalist for various GDR magazines. She completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller and studied philosophy from 1966 to 1971 at the Humboldt University . She has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin since 1970 .

Renate Feyl, who mainly writes narrative and essayistic prose , began her writing career with a series of novels on topics from everyday life in the GDR . Since the beginning of the 1980s and based on a collection of biographical essays on forgotten women in early German scientific history ("Der Lautlose Aufbruch"), the author has mainly dealt with important women in German literary history of the 18th and early 19th centuries, such as Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched , Sophie von La Roche and Caroline von Wolhaben .

According to her own statement, she tried to break out of the category of period novels with the novel Scattering Loss (2004), which deals with the ups and downs in the media world based on the career of a fictional German radio maker.

Works

• Rauhbein , Rudolstadt 1968.
• The third eye was made of glass. A student story , Rudolstadt 1971.
• Build me a bridge , Berlin 1972.
• Pictures without a frame , Rudolstadt 1977.
• The silent departure , Berlin 1981.
• Idyll with Professor , Berlin 1986.
• Persevering in Paradise , Cologne 1992.
• The profane hours of happiness , Cologne 1996.
• The gentle yoke of excellence , Cologne 1999.
• Loss of coverage , Cologne 2004.
• The prospect of permanent light: The Queen and the Philosopher , Cologne 2006.
• Set lights over a bright background . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04335-8 .
• The indispensable condition of happiness . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-462-04890-2 .

Editing

• His is the woman, thinking is the man . Union-Verlag, Berlin 1984.

Web links

Wikiquote: Renate Feyl  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Renate Feyl in the catalog of the German National Library