Sabine Friedrich

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Sabine Friedrich (born March 10, 1958 in Coburg ) is a German author of novels and plays .

Life

Sabine Friedrich was born in Coburg in 1958. After graduating from high school, she traveled for a while, studied German and English in Munich until 1984 and then worked in various jobs, including a. as a language teacher at the Goethe Institute in Munich and as a tutor in an American summer school. In 1989 she received her doctorate . She then worked as a lecturer and magazine editor. She married in 1992 and her daughter was born in Hamburg a year later. In 1994 the family moved to Oslo. There Friedrich began to work on her first novel. In 1996 she returned to Coburg with her daughter. In 1997, their marriage ended in divorce and they remarried a second time. Her husband brought a son into the marriage. Today Friedrich lives as a freelance author with her family in Coburg.

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Friedrich mainly publishes novels. Her first book, Puppenhaus , published by piper in 1997, plays with elements of crime, homeland and women’s novels: “It is a serious encouragement book for single-family housewives in their late thirties and at the same time a satire on it. As a ›novel with murders‹, it is a really exciting crime thriller, but also a popular grotesque. It is a toxic milieu study with oases of real small town idyll, there is shockingly little love and only secret sex, but the end is kitschy and full of hope (...) A pleasant and clear, often funny book, a homeland novel, a German, and as such, of course also a homeland-hating novel. "" A first-class novel debut. "

In 2000, Friedrich switched to Eichborn Verlag, where her novel Nachthaut was published that same year , a coming-of-age novel with sometimes fantastic motifs that tells the story of three women: “Legions of women will read it, sometimes nodding knowingly, sometimes laughing and somehow feel understood "" a captivating, stirring reading for adults who are not afraid to dive into foreign and personal experiences (...), dense, exciting, unadorned and idiosyncratic in terms of both language and content. "

In 2005, Family Silver was published, now by dtv . "A family celebration is coming up (...) For this reason, the small town of Neuchâtel, somewhere in Germany, is overpopulated by great aunts, grandchildren, siblings. In short: from the most varied of people, whose stories reflect the entire hodgepodge of our society. ”So the novel can be classified more as a social than a family novel:“ A large-scale network of relationships that grippingly reflects German post-war history. ”“ A great novel (. ..), which says more about life in contemporary Germany and our state of mind than thousands of newspaper articles show. A detailed depiction of our present (...) Sabine Friedrich tells succinctly and psychologically precise, as if her novel had gone through the purgatory of vanities. As entertaining as Tom Wolfe. "

Immerwahr was created as a prose study for the play of the same name, which Friedrich developed in 2006 for the actress Anja Lenßen , who was a friend of her and which premiered in 2007 at the Landestheater Coburg. The focus of the text is Clara Immerwahr , Germany's first female chemist and married to the Nobel Prize winner, ardent patriot and inventor of the gas war Fritz Haber, who, like Clara herself, was of Jewish descent. Friedrich tells her story as that of a double emancipation failure: the exclusion of the female and Jewish scholar mirror each other and appear exemplary of the refusal of modernity in the empire, which ultimately led to the catastrophe of National Socialism. “In flashbacks, Sabine Friedrich develops the psychogram of two dramas. Here the academician who is psychologically arrested under political and sociological constraints, there Fritz Haber, who struggles for social recognition by all means, including the overexploitation of his health. The author uses a large number of contemporary quotations and historically secured data in her novel. In addition to the personal dramas, a lively picture of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, which is sometimes disturbing due to its occasional topicality, is drawn. Almost 100 years later, so much has happened - and yet so little has been achieved. A book with a high thought factor. "

Friedrich worked for six years on Wer wir sind , a novel about the German resistance against National Socialism, published by dtv in autumn 2012. “What the historians wrote about Elser , the Scholls or the Kreisau Circle , they read in order to transform it”, wrote Gerhard Spörl in the Spiegel. The result is "not a novel, but an encyclopedia of the German resistance wrapped in a novel". Dieter Unolzen sees it differently: In his eyes, "Who we are" "bursts the dimension of the biographical-historical novel: By portraying the protagonists of the resistance in their family, cultural and political contexts, Sabine Friedrich apparently easily links social panoramas and political thrillers and family saga to a touching, harrowing, captivating reading adventure. ”Together with the novel, a“ workshop report ”was published in which Friedrich reports on the work on her novel in a very personal way.

In 2016, after the death of her first husband, the novel Epilog mit Enten was published : an "absolutely exceptional novel " in which Friedrich turns to her own life story. "Friedrich's rousing novel about a destructive relationship leads back to a time of free love, hard drugs and false dreams."

In autumn 2019, the novel Some but nevertheless , Volume 1 of a trilogy was published that, in view of current political developments, will once again deal with the German resistance to National Socialism. In this first, meticulously researched and factually very dense volume, the focus is on the women and men of the Rote Kapelle.

Publications (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Petra Kohse 1997 in the taz
  2. Jutta Mödlhammer in the Nürnberger Zeitung. December 6, 1997.
  3. Susanne Katzorke in the taz, July 25, 2000.
  4. Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  5. ^ Kerstin Strecker in Die Welt, December 3, 2005.
  6. Madame, November 2005.
  7. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. October 18, 2005.
  8. Petra Brings, February 11, 2008.
  9. Gerhard Spörl, Der Spiegel, 40/2012.
  10. Dieter Unolzen, Neue Presse Coburg, September 29, 2012.
  11. Gernot Recke, kamikaze-radio.de January 5, 2017.
  12. Listen to February 3, 2017.