Rosamunde Pilcher

Rosamunde Pilcher [ ˈɹəʊzəmʊnd ˈpʰɪɫtʃʰə ] ( listen ^{? / I} ) OBE (born Scott; born September 22, 1924 in Lelant , Cornwall , England ; † February 6, 2019 in Longforgan , Perth and Kinross , Scotland ) was a British writer . Her works appeared until 1965 under the pseudonym Jane Fraser .

Life

The daughter of a naval officer grew up with her mother in England while her father served in Burma . She has been writing since she was 15. After graduating from school, she joined the Women's Royal Naval Service volunteer service during World War II . She also worked as a secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . In 1943 she was called to India , where she stayed until the end of the war.

In 1946 the author married the textile entrepreneur Graham Pilcher (1916-2009) and moved with him to Longforgan near Dundee in Scotland , where she has lived since then. In addition to her work as a housewife and mother of four children (including Robin Pilcher ), she began writing short stories and love stories for women's magazines under the pseudonym Jane Fraser at the end of the 1940s - according to her own account, sitting at the kitchen table because there was no space in the house for a desk of their own. The children never saw her write.

It wasn't until 1987 that her breakthrough came as a commercially successful novelist with the family saga The Shell Seekers ( sold over 1.7 million times in Germany as Die Muschelsucher from 1990 ). Her books, which have sold more than 60 million worldwide to date, have made her one of the most successful contemporary authors.

In 2002, Pilcher was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire .

On June 7, 2012, at the age of 87, Pilcher announced that she would stop writing for reasons of age.

On February 6, 2019, Rosamunde Pilcher died at the age of 94 from complications from a stroke following bronchitis.

reception

Pilcher sold around 65 million books and made around £ 100 million in his lifetime . This makes her one of the most commercially successful authors today. She is regarded as the “master of love schnulze ”: Her romance novels assigned to trivial literature - often referred to as “ kitsch ” in the critics - mostly revolve around love relationships, love afflictions and friendships (“ ideal world ”; “ happy end ”) in the British Upper class , whose male protagonists were often doctors, rose growers, or both. In an obituary, the Berliner Zeitung summed up: “Incest, inheritance disputes and love stories that flare up again form the framework for simply constructed novels, which, under the careful guidance of Rosamunde Pilcher, were always carried by sensitive dialogues with which an audience plagued by completely different everyday worries could easily identify . “The emotions of the characters and the landscapes of England, especially their homeland Cornwall , as well as Scotland are extensively described, in addition to which there are mostly highly romanticized descriptions of facilities, houses or places. She herself said: “Yes, there is a certain escapism in my books , an escape from reality. But it's not like our lives or our jobs are always pleasant. Women in particular often lead a shadowy existence, with child-rearing and all that. Sometimes it's nice to be taken by the hand and led into another world or another life. Other people's lives are always fascinating. "

Her works and adaptations (see film adaptations ) were particularly successful in German-speaking countries and led to a tourist boom in Cornwall and Devon in the south-west of England. The head of the Tourist Office Visit Cornwell Malcom Bell reported: “The fact that Cornwall provides the backdrop for the films is the best marketing we can get”, half of all foreign guests in the structurally weak area are German-speaking, which is called “Rosamunde-Pilcher Effect "is called. Around 350,000 tourists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland would arrive annually. Arno Frank sums it up in Spiegel Online : “The German public's demand for idyllic societies in idyllic landscapes, this combination of mild exoticism and mild heartbeat has in itself become a genre of its own.” Even if she provided templates, “Pilcher is for her blending not to be held responsible in this country ”. You have discovered "a deeper meaning in the shallow". Pilcher is quoted as saying: "As someone who has lived through the war, I am content to have played my small role in leaving that behind".

Public broadcasters such as ZDF were also given buzzwords in media criticism such as pilcherisation or pilferisation due to the alleged flattening and kitification of their programs in prime time . Since then, these pejorative terms have been used as a reference for productions in which “aestheticized landscapes” stand as “decor” for “escapist love stories”. Torsten Körner said on the occasion of the 2009 Bert Donnepp ​​Prize : “Instead of people, we see far too often good landscapes, pilcherized valleys and degenerated forests”.

Awards

• 1994 Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize)
• 1996 DIVA Award
• 1997 Bambi

Film adaptations

The ZDF has more than one hundred filmed her novels and short stories; for the most part with deviations from the literary original. These films are among the most popular ZDF programs with an average of seven million viewers. Some of these were also broadcast in Austria ( ORF ) and Switzerland ( SRF ).

For their services to tourism in Great Britain, Rosamunde Pilcher and ZDF chief editor Claus Beling received the British Tourism Award in 2002. The two winners were honored for the enormous success of the film series and for the impressive portrayal of British landscapes in the more than 40 ZDF Pilcher films by then.

Some of the script versions come from the author Christiane Sadlo, now known as Inga Lindström . Most of the Pilcher films (71 films from 1993 to 2010) were and are made by the Cologne and Munich- based film production company FFP New Media GmbH.

On the occasion of the one hundredth episode, the Süddeutsche Zeitung published a critical assessment of the success of the television series:

“Of course it's reactionary, the family idyll is kitschy and from yesteryear, the role concepts are outdated and the people in the films are always noble, helpful and good. Sure, we know: this is not reality. Nevertheless. An average of seven million viewers watch. You want one thing above all on Sunday evening: switch off from everyday life, a little heart, pain and heart again. Attractive people in their enchanting dwellings and a happy ending. "

No.	title	Year of production	First broadcast
1	The shell seekers	1989	0Jan. 14, 1991 0Apr. 23, 1997 0(EA on ZDF)
2	Stormy encounter	1993	Oct. 30, 1993
3	Wild thyme	1994	Oct 23, 1994
4th	Carousel of life	1994	Nov 13, 1994
5	Interplay of love	1994	Jan 15, 1995
6th	The end of a summer	1994	0Feb 5, 1995
7th	Summer by the sea	1995	Oct 15, 1995
8th	Sleeping tiger	1995	0Nov 5, 1995
9	Clouds on the horizon	1995	Dec 10, 1995
10	Snow storm in spring	1995	0Feb. 4, 1996
11	Lights games	1996	0March 3, 1996
12	Two-part September (1) September (2)	1995	0Apr 7, 1996 0Apr 8, 1996
13	The house on the coast	1996	0Nov 3, 1996
14th	A special love	1996	Dec 25, 1996
15th	Wind of hope	1996	Feb 16, 1997
16	Wrong ways of the heart	1996	0March 9, 1997
17th	Hours of decision	1996	March 30, 1997
18th	The second chance	1997	Jul 31, 1997
19th	Two sisters	1997	Nov 16, 1997
20th	The price of love	1997	Feb 15, 1998
21st	Two-part homecoming (1) Homecoming (2)	1997	0Jun 1, 1998 0Jun 7, 1998
22nd	Return to paradise	1998	Sep 20 1998
23	Melody of hearts	1998	0Dec 6, 1998
24	Magic of love	1998	Jan. 17, 1999
25th	Roses in the storm	1998	Feb 14, 1999
26th	Thorns in the valley of flowers	1998	March 10, 1999
27	Two-parter The Great Legacy (1) The Great Legacy (2)	1998	May 23, 1999 May 24, 1999
28	Cliffs of love	1999	19 Sep 1999
29	Seagulls in the wind	1999	Nov 28, 1999
30th	Prime of life	1999	Dec 12, 1999
31	The long way to happiness	1999	Jan 16, 2000
32	Time of knowledge	2000	Apr 23, 2000
33	Torn hearts	2000	Oct 15, 2000
34	Call of the past	2000	Nov 12, 2000
35	In the light of fire	2000	Dec 17, 2000
36	The Rose of Kerrymore	2000	0Jan. 7, 2001
37	Coast of dreams	2001	0Feb. 4, 2001
38	Children of happiness	2001	Nov 11, 2001
39	Wind over the river	2001	Nov 11, 2001
40	Flowers in the rain	2001	Dec 16, 2001
41	When only love matters	2001	Feb 10, 2002
42	Tomorrow we dream together	2002	0Apr 1, 2002
43	With the eyes of love	2001	Sep 15 2002
44	Til the end of the world	2002	0Dec 8, 2002
45	Shooting stars in August	2002	0Jan. 5, 2003
46	Paradise of dreams	2002	0Feb 2, 2003
47	Flame of love	2003	0March 9, 2003
48	Certainty of heart	2002	0Nov 9, 2003
49	Winter sun	2003	Dec 25, 2003
50	Feathers in the wind	2003	0Jan. 4, 2004
51	Ways of love	2003	Jan. 18, 2004
52	As long as you exist	2003	March 29, 2004
53	Love in the game	2003	Apr 25, 2004
54	Dream of a summer	2004	19 Sep 2004
55	Depth of feelings	2004	0Dec 5, 2004
56	So close to heaven	2003	Dec 25, 2004
57	Legacy of love	2004	0Jan. 2, 2005
58	Queen of the Night	2004	0Feb 6, 2005
59	Sails of love	2005	March 28, 2005
60	Above the clouds	2005	0Oct 2, 2005
61	Magic of love	2005	Dec 25, 2005
62	The sky over Cornwall	2005	Dec 28, 2005
63	Land of longing	2005	Jan. 22, 2006
64	Summer awakening	2005	0Feb 5, 2006
65	Where love began	2006	17 Sep 2006
66	The love of your life	2006	0Oct 8, 2006
67	And suddenly it was love	2006	0Dec 3, 2006
68	The Shell Seekers (remake)	2006	Dec 25, 2006
69	Goodbye by the river	2006	0Feb. 4, 2007
70	Summer of love	2006	0Apr 9, 2007
71	Wings of hope	2007	Apr 15, 2007
72	The man of my dreams	2007	23 Sep 2007
73	Victory of love	2007	0Oct 7, 2007
74	Fog over Kilrush Castle	2007	Nov 11, 2007
75	Out of love and passion	2007	0Dec 2, 2007
76	Wind over the sea	2007	23 Dec 2007
77	Arrows of love	2007	0March 9, 2008
78	Melody of love	2008	Sep 14 2008
79	Hearts in the wind	2008	Dec 21, 2008
80	Four parts : The four seasons 1. A summer in Endellion 2. Autumn storms 3. Turn of winter 4. The gift of spring	2008 2008 2009 2009	Dec 25, 2008 Dec 25, 2008 Dec 25, 2009 Dec 25, 2009
81	Tide of love	2008	0Jan. 4, 2009
82	Heart's longing	2008	Jan. 18, 2009
83	A love in autumn	2008	0March 8, 2009
84	Decision of the heart	2008	Apr 13, 2009
85	Love against the rest of the world	2009	Sep 20 2009
86	See you at Rose Abbey	2009	Oct 25, 2009
87	let it be love	2009	Nov 29, 2009
88	When in doubt for love	2009	Jan. 17, 2010
89	Wherever you go	2009	March 14, 2010
90	Love on the horizon	2009	0May 9, 2010
91	When the heart breaks	2010	Oct 10, 2010
92	Wings of love	2010	Nov 28, 2010
93	Lords don't lie	2010	Dec 19, 2010
94	Questions of the heart	2010	0Jan. 2, 2011
95	Sunday children	2010	Jan. 23, 2011
96	Four-part series : Four women (aka “This September”) 1. Virginia's secret 2. Laura's love 3. Olivia's fate 4. Alexa's happiness	2010 2010 2011 2011	Apr 24, 2011 Apr 24, 2011 Dec 25, 2011 Dec 25, 2011
97	Engaged, in love, confused	2011	Sep 11 2011
98	The stolen summer	2011	0Oct 2, 2011
99	English wine	2011	Nov 20, 2011
100	Dangerous surf	2011	Dec 18, 2011
101	Unbridled happiness	2011	Jan 15, 2012
102	The secret of the white dove	2011	0Apr 8, 2012
103	The wrong nun	2012	23 Sep 2012
104	In the middle of a life	2012	Oct 14, 2012
105	Two-parter The other woman (1) The other woman (2)	2012	Dec 23, 2012 Dec 25, 2012
106	A question of honour	2012	Jan. 13, 2013
107	The woman on the cliff	2013	March 31, 2013
108	Snakes in paradise	2013	Apr 28, 2013
109	The promised bride	2013	08 Sep 2013
110	Old hearts don't rust	2013	Nov 17, 2013
111	Flown too high	2013	Dec 22, 2013
112	Busy hearts	2013	Jan. 12, 2014
113	Evita's revenge	2013	March 16, 2014
114	My unknown heart	2014	April 19, 2014
115	You don't kiss lawyers	2014	Sept. 21, 2014
116	Trust is good, falling in love is better	2014	Nov 16, 2014
117	Ghostwriter	2014	Jan. 11, 2015
118	Election promises and other lies	2014	Feb 22, 2015
119	One kiss	2014	0Apr 6, 2015
120	Completely happy	2015	17th May 2015
121	Totally unexpected	2015	0Oct 4, 2015
122	Love, thieves, diamonds	2015	Nov 22, 2015
123	Argentine tango	2016	Jan. 10, 2016
124	License to fling	2016	0Feb 7, 2016
125	Guardian Angel	2016	March 27, 2016
126	A doctor & three women	2016	Apr 24, 2016
127	Ex & love	2016	0Oct 2, 2016
128	Strawberries in spring	2016	Nov 13, 2016
129	House exchange with obstacles	2016	Dec 18, 2016
130	Like from another planet	2017	0Jan. 8, 2017
131	Almost married	2017	Feb. 26, 2017
132	No more class reunions	2017	20 Aug 2017
133	The Cassley Ghost	2017	Oct 22, 2017
134	When fish smile	2017	19 Nov 2017
135	Inherited happiness	2017	0Jan. 7, 2018
136	Our father's legacy	2017	0Feb. 4, 2018
137	Desperate for a nanny	2018	May 16, 2018
138	Where your heart lives	2018	0Oct 7, 2018
139	The secret of the flower island	2018	0Dec 9, 2018
140	Stormy in the morning, love in the evening	2018	0Jan. 5, 2019
141	My brother's bride	2019	Feb 10, 2019
142	Daughters in law	2019	May 22, 2019
143	Chocolates for breakfast	2019	0Sep 1 2019
144	Get out in the storm	2019	0Sep 9 2019
145	My cousin, love and me	2019	Oct 30, 2019
146	The magic bus	2019	Nov 27, 2019
147	Of tea and love	2020	Jan. 12, 2020
148	Wrong life, true love	2020	Feb 29, 2020

Works (in German translation)

• The shell seekers . Roman (paperback). rororo - Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990. (Hardcover: No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from February 10 to March 28, 1992 )
• Carousel of life . Roman (hardcover & paperback). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1991.
• Lights games . Roman (paperback). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1991.
• September . Roman (paperback). Wunderlich, Reinbek 1991. (Hardcover: No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from April 29 to October 20, 1991 )
• Summer by the sea . Roman (hardcover & paperback). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992.
• Stormy encounter . Roman (hardcover & paperback). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992.
• Interplay of love . Roman (paperback). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992.
• Wild thyme . Roman (hardcover & paperback). Wunderlich, Reinbek 1993. (Hardcover: No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from January 10th to 16th, 1994 )
• Sleeping tiger . Roman (paperback). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993.
• Snow storm in spring . Roman (paperback). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993.
• Flowers in the rain . Roman (paperback). rororo - Rowohlt, 1994.
• End of summer . Roman (hardcover & paperback). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994.
• Homecoming . Roman (paperback). Wunderlich, Reinbek 1995.
• Clouds on the horizon . Roman (hardcover & paperback). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995.
• Winter sun . Roman (paperback). Wunderlich, Reinbek 2000.
• All the stories . Roman (paperback). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2000 (anthology, contains the volumes of short stories The Blue Room and Flowers in the Rain )
• Family album . Photo book (hardcover). Wunderlich, Reinbek 2007 (literary portraits of all their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren; with photos of their grandson Oliver Pilcher)
• My two mothers . (Paperback). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2012.

literature

• Siv Bublitz (editor), Rosamunde Pilcher: Die Welt der Rosamunde Pilcher. Wunderlich Verlag, 1994, ISBN 978-3805205719 .
• Christmas with Rosamunde Pilcher . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 2003, ISBN 3-499-23530-7 .
• Claus Beling, Heidi Ulmke: Enchanting Cornwall. A journey to the locations of the Rosamunde Pilcher films . vgs Egmont, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8025-3408-5 .
• Ulrike Grunewald, Petra Woebke: In the footsteps of Rosamunde Pilcher: A journey through Scotland and Cornwall . Moewig, Hamburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-86803-274-1 .

Documentaries on TV

• Rosamunde Pilchers Cornwall - ZDF documentary (2008) - first broadcast on May 31, 2009
• Rosamunde Pilchers Scottland - ZDF documentary (2008) - first broadcast on June 1, 2009
• Cornwall - The Real Land of Rosamunde Pilcher - ZDF documentary (2020) - First broadcast on April 13, 2020

Trivia

In 2004 Rosamunde Pilcher visited her great niece Marissa at Rheda Castle . Marissa is the wife of Maximilian zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg . At that time a rose was named after her.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rosamunde Pilcher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rosamunde Pilcher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Rosamunde Pilcher films in the two thousand and one film dictionary
• List of episodes at Fernsehserien.de (there, however, with different numbers than here)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher obituary , theguardian.com, published and accessed on February 7, 2019
2. ↑ Alison Flood: Rosamunde Pilcher, author of The Shell Seekers, dies aged 94 . In: The Guardian . February 7, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed February 7, 2019]).
3. ↑ Novelist Rosamunde Pilcher dies, aged 94 thebookseller.com, accessed on February 7, 2019
4. ↑ Cult author Rosamunde Pilcher (94) is dead telebasel.ch, accessed on February 7, 2019
5. ↑ Vineta Colby (Ed.): World authors, 1985–1990. HW Wilson, New York 1995, ISBN 0-8242-0875-7 , p. 970.
6. ↑ Graham Pilcher . In: The Telegraph , May 3, 2009.
7. ↑ Stefanie Maeck: She only lives kitsch in fiction. In: spiegel.de , September 21, 2014, accessed on September 21, 2014
8. ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher stops: Retirement at 87. In: Spiegel Online Kultur , June 7, 2012
9. ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher, author of The Shell Seekers, dies aged 94 , The Guardian, February 7, 2019; accessed on February 9, 2019
10. ↑ "I've never really been in love" ; Süddeutsche.de of February 7, 2019; accessed the same day
11. ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher died at the age of 94 , Handelsblatt dated February 7, 2019
12. ↑ Angelika Bucerius: "She writes about feelings, but doesn't like to show them". In: The world . May 19, 2013, accessed June 8, 2015 (interview with Rosamunde Pilcher). 
13. ↑ Hendrik Werner: The Schnulzenkönigin Rosamunde Pilcher is 85. In: Die Welt . September 22, 2009, accessed June 8, 2015 . 
14. ↑ With kitsch, Rosamunde Pilcher put almost everyone in the shade ; br24 of February 7, 2019; accessed the same day
15. ^ The ready-made romantic , Deutschlandfunk, February 7, 2019; accessed on February 9, 2019
16. ↑ Master of kitsch prose: Rosamunde Pilcher dies ; The February 7, 2019 standard ; accessed on February 9, 2019
17. ↑ Obituary for Rosamunde Pilcher The Lady of Love ; Berliner Zeitung of February 7, 2019; accessed on February 20, 2019
18. ↑ The master of romance novels , tagesschau.de of February 7, 2019; accessed the same day
19. ^ Why the Germans idolized Rosamunde Pilcher ; Augsburger Allgemeine of February 8, 2019; accessed on February 11, 2019
20. ↑ Queen Kitsch , Spiegel online, February 7, 2019; accessed the same day
21. ↑ pilcherization ; Lexicon of film terms ; accessed on February 14, 2019
22. ↑ Tanja Weber: Cultivation in Series: Cultural Adaptation Strategies of Fictional TV Series ; Schüren Verlag 2015 p. 308; online in google books
23. ↑ Dream of swaying meadows In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 1, 2011. Accessed July 30, 2016.
24. ^ ZDF press release: British Tourism Award for Rosamunde Pilcher and Dr. Claus Beling , presseportal.de
25. ↑ Dream of rolling meadows (by Meike Mai)
26. ^ Memories of Rosamunde Pilcher . The bell .online, accessed on May 18, 2020.