Rita Kuczynski

Rita Kuczynski (2003)

Rita Kuczynski (born February 25, 1944 in Neidenburg , Masuria ) is a German writer , philosopher and publicist .

Life

Rita Kuczynski grew up in East and West Berlin and studied music (piano, organ) from 1956 to 1962 . She then went on to study piano at the Leningrad Conservatory . From 1965 to 1970 she studied philosophy at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1971 she became an assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . The following year she married Thomas Kuczynski . With a doctoral thesis on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , she achieved her PhD A at the Academy in 1975 . From 1981 to 1990 she lived as a freelance writer.

In 1987 she received a visiting professorship in philosophy and literature at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York . She has lectured and lectured at Columbia University , the University of Minnesota and the University of Maryland, and the German Studies Association . Separated from her husband after reunification (GDR) , she went to the Universidad de Chile as a visiting professor for languages ​​in 1991 . In preparation for a monograph on Gabriela Mistral , she went on a study trip to Santiago de Chile , Concepción , La Serena , Vicuña and Montegrande .

Divorced since 1998, she worked as a freelance journalist and publicist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Die Zeit , the Tagesspiegel , the Berliner Zeitung , DeutschlandRadio Berlin and Radio Bremen .

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Your contributions to the discussion about German reunification contributed to the understanding between East and West. As a presenter, she accompanied the pan-German discourse after reunification, including in the Tacheles series from DeutschlandRadio Berlin , in the Berliner Runde and in the political feature pages of DeutschlandRadio. On television she took part in many roundtables and talk shows on German unity.

Awards

• Working grant for writers from the Berlin Senate (1993)
• Scholarship from the Cultural Fund Foundation of the New Federal States (1994)
• Scholarship from the Berlin artist promotion (1995)
• Grant from the Council for European Studies (1995)
• Scholarship from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York , Department of History and Department of Modern Language and Literature (1995)
• Literature grant from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation (1998)
• Writer at Johns Hopkins University , The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC (2001)
• Literature Prize of China Time , Republic of China (Taiwan) (2002)
• Senior Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (2008)

Works

Novels

• Nights with Hegel (1984). License number 48-48 / 10/84.
• If I weren't a bird (1991). ISBN 3-612-27057-5 .
• staccato (1997). ISBN 3-612-65013-0 .
• Mauerblume (1999). ISBN 3-546-00189-3 .
• The Woman Found (2001). ISBN 3546-00308-X .
• In the circle (2010). ISBN 978-3-86931-411-2 .
• But the sky was higher (2014). ISBN 978-3-8442-9267-1 (e-book)

Non-fiction

• GDR - End with Turnaround (1999); with Stefan Moses , Harald Eggebrecht; ISBN 3-7757-9005-5 .
• The Revenge of the East Germans (2002); ISBN 3-932529-37-5 .
• Something New in the West - East Germans on the Way to Normality (2003); ISBN 3-932529-91-X .
• East Germany was never something natural - connoisseurs of Germany from Central and Eastern Europe, France, Great Britain and the USA on united Germany (2005); ISBN 3-8660-1440-6 .
• What do you think Worldview without religion (2013); ISBN 978-3-86153-743-4 .
• Preludes to Hegel (2019); ISBN 978-3-748511-04-5 (paperback) or ISBN 978-3-748511-33-5 (e-book).

Radio features

• Lacrimosa 1953 by Rita Kuczynski (37 ') radio play with Prod .: DS Kultur, 1988.
• Mary or a nameless story . Director: Günter Bormann. Prod .: Broadcasting of the GDR, 1984.
• What is a mountain Literary feature about the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral . Director: Horst Liepach. Prod .: DS Culture, 1991.

motion pictures

• Between Pankow and Zehlendorf . Based on motifs from the novel by Rita Kuczynski ("If I wasn't a bird") 1991. Director: Horst Seemann, screenplay: Rita Kuczynski / Horst Seemann

Essays

• Don't meet at the wrong time - a feature . In: Surviving the twentieth century; Social Philosophy from the Frankfurter School to the Columbia Faculty Seminars. Judith T. Marus editor Transaction Publishers. New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK), 1999, ISBN 1-56000-352-9 , pp. 295-311
• On the Strength of Weak Bonds - Essay - (On the Future of Human Relationships at the End of the Industrial Age in Europe.) . In: Antoinette - Tarot of Europe; 1999, ISBN 3-932529-68-5 , S-50-55.
• The entry into the exit . In: Wolf Biermann and others: The expatriation. Beginning of the end of the GDR. Fritz Pleitgen (ed.). Ullstein, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89834-044-9 , pp. 148-151.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rita Kuczynski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rita Kuczynski's website
• Rita Kuczynski on www.literaturport.de
• Rita Kuczynski in: Critical lexicon for contemporary German literature

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography and reviews of works by Rita Kuczynski at perlentaucher.de
2. ↑ Dissertation: The science of logic and the socio-historical background of its categorical development .
3. ^ Patrick Conley: Features and reports on radio in the GDR. Recordings from 1964–1991 . 2nd Edition. Askylt, Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-9807372-0-9 , p. 122. ( Digitized in the Russian State Library )