Sabine Lange (writer)

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Sabine Lange (born June 20, 1953 in Stralsund ) is a German writer and editor.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1971, she studied pedagogy (mathematics and geography) at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald from 1971 to 1975 , from 1976 to 1978 in distance learning music (piano) at the Rostock Conservatory and from 1987 to 1990 also in distance learning Literature at the Leipzig Institute of Literature . She worked as a teacher for mathematics and piano and was active as a folklore researcher in Neustrelitz. From 1984 to 1999 she was archivist of the Fallada estate in the Hans Fallada archive in Feldberg. In 2001 she took part in the XXV. Conference of the German Studies Association in Washington DC with a lecture on Fallada inheritance in the GDR and began in 2002 on behalf of the LStU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with the processing of the stasis entanglements around the Fallada estate. In 2004 she founded the International Fallada Forum, the Fallada Conferences and others together with the writer Werner Liersch and other critical Fallada researchers. a. in the AdK Berlin, Regina (Canada) and Dublin.

Sabine Lange has published several books and various essays on Hans Fallada and writes poetry. From 2004 to 2011 she was a member of the Association of German Writers and has been a member of the Federal Republic of Germany's circle of authors since 2007 . Sabine Lange has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2013.

Sabine Lange has a daughter.

Honors

  • 1966 Prize winner at the 1st Chamber Music Meeting of the GDR in Leipzig as the piano trio "Frick"
  • 1989 Special prize of the Kulturbund "Man and his landscape" for excerpts from "Diaries of an archivist"
  • 1995 nomination for the "Alfred Gesswein Literature Prize" for poetry
  • 1995 working scholarship in the Baltic Center of Writers and Translators in Visby / Sweden
  • 2003 Artist grant from the Ministry for Education, Science and Culture Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for "Diaries of an archivist"
  • 2008 nomination for the Hans Fallada Prize Neumünster for the novel "Schlüsselbund"
  • 2011 nomination of the screenplay “Die Archivarin” (as co-author with Jörg Gfrörer) for the German Screenplay Award.
  • 2012 Cultural film funding from the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the script “Der Himmel über Wanzka”.

Works (selection)

Books

  • Always on foot (poems), federchen Verlag , Neubrandenburg 1994.
  • And this lake at my door - with Hans Fallada through the Feldberger landscape , Steffen Verlag , Friedland 2002.
  • The ear of my cat (poems), Steffen Verlag, Friedland 2005.
  • The Fishermen Sleep (poems, bilingual, with translations by Jenny Williams), Todmorden, England 2005.
  • Hans Fallada: Delicious Times, ( The casserole is completely superfluous , 2001), (Ed.), Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2006.
  • Fallada - fall shelved? - Socialist heritage and the MfS , Edition Temmen, Bremen 2006.
  • Secret poems (poems), Edition Rugerup, Sweden 2006.
  • Keychain (novel), Edition Rugerup, Sweden 2007.
  • Hans Fallada: In my foreign country, prison diary 1944 , (Eds. Jenny Williams, Sabine Lange), Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2009.
  • Feldberger Abendstille , poems and painting, with pictures by E. Hobb, Feldberg 2018.

Essays on Fallada

  • Fallada case shelved? Socialist heritage and the Ministry for State Security, In: Die Provinz in Leben und Werk von Hans Fallada, Colloquium of the Fallada Forum, December 4, 2004, Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
  • Between exclusion and appropriation. Hans Fallada and the collective memory in the GDR. In: Carsten Gansel : Memory and literature in the "closed societies" of real socialism between 1945 and 1989.
  • On the history of the Fallada estate. Tradition-Substance-Perspectives. In: forget time, remember time; Edited by Carsten Gansel / Werner Liersch, Göttingen, 2008.
  • Fallada – Fall ad acta? History of a continued betrayal, In: Mitteldeutsches Jahrbuch für Kultur und Geschichte, Vol. 18., 2011.
  • Badger roast behind bars , In: Krachkultur, 16/2014, Krachkultur Verlag Munich.
  • Politically it was difficult with Fallada. Turning consequences: A quarter of a century review of the development of life and work , FAZ, June 27, 2016.

literature

  • Support group for literature Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e. V. (Ed.): Writers in Mecklenburg / Western Pomerania , Federchen Verlag, Neubrandenburg 1994, ISBN 3-910170-19-6
  • Christiane Baumann, Oh dear Fallada, Stasi in the provinces , Friday July 2, 2004
  • Frank Pergande, Two Societies and Many Truths , FAZ, December 7, 2005
  • Detlev Stapf, Fallada in the wrong hands , Nordkurier, July 18, 2006
  • Detlev Stapf, Grammar of Silent Speech , Nordkurier, November 25, 2006
  • Frank Pergande, who does the bug belong to? How the GDR dealt with the estate of Hans Fallada , FAZ, August 4, 2006
  • Deborah Vietor-Engländer, Sabine Lange, Fallada - Fall ad acta ?: Socialist inheritance maintenance and the Ministry for State Security, German studies, vol. 47, 2006
  • Dr. Jörg Bilke, A kind of "heritage" Hans Fallada and the State Security, In: Flucht und Ausreise, March 8, 2008
  • Barbara Kerneck, Wrong Supervisor, taz, July 19, 2009
  • Udo Scheer, The Fallada case, Rheinischer Merkur, June 4, 2009
  • Rose Salzmann, Sabine Lange: Fallada case shelved? - The Stasi and the GDR heritage , event review from May 31, 2016 on the reading in the memorial library in honor of the victims of communism, Nikolaikirchplatz, 10178 Berlin.

Radio

  • Thomas Gaevert : An uncomfortable archivist - Sabine Lange and the Stasi informers in the Neubrandenburg Literature Center. Südwestrundfunk, first broadcast October 30, 2017, feature for SWR2 Tandem - 25 minutes.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Lange, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund