Sibylle Schleicher

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Sibylle Schleicher , married Sibylle Clauß-Schleicher (born June 12, 1960 in Schielleiten near Stubenberg ) is an Austrian actress , poet , writer and singer .

Life and professional career

Sibylle Schleicher was born in June 1960 in the small town of Schielleiten near Stubenberg in Styria, the thirteenth of fourteen children. After graduating from Hartberg in 1978, a scholarship from the American Field Service enabled her to spend a year abroad in Minnesota , United States . There she had her first appearances as a singer in musicals. After her return, she studied acting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz from 1979 to 1982 . This was followed by permanent and guest engagements on the stages in Graz, Darmstadt , Bielefeld , Kiel and Berlin . From 2001 to 2015 she was the acting - ensemble of the theater in Ulm and led in this period from 2008 to 2011 directed the local amateur theater lawyers cabaret Ulm .

In addition to her acting activities, Sibylle Schleicher wrote poems early on , which she published for the first time in 1983. She wrote prose texts , an opera libretto , cabaret pieces and a radio play . In 1994 her volume of poetry, "Unfound", appeared with drawings by the Austrian artist Heinz Bruckschwaiger.

Her first novel "Das schneeverbrannte Dorf", published by Haymon Verlag in Innsbruck in 2000, was described as a "remarkable debut" in the international magazine Buchkultur . For this work she received the "Peter Klein Prize" of the Aachen Literature Forum on August 24, 2001 in Aachen, endowed with DM 5,000 ; The laudation was given by the writer and literary scholar Jürgen Egyptien . In 2005 Schleicher was involved as a singer in the production of a music CD entitled "Cinderella".

Schleicher has been working as a freelancer since her contract at Theater Ulm was not renewed after fourteen years in 2015. She is also involved in the Oberer Kuhberg concentration camp documentation center in Ulm and in the Stolpersteine project . In February 2017 her second novel with the title “The man with the saxophone” was published by Klöpfer & Meyer publishing house in Tübingen .

Sibylle Schleicher is a member of the Authors Authors Interest Group (IGAA) in Vienna and has also been a member of the Austrian PEN Club since 2006 .

Awards

  • 2001 Peter Klein Prize from the Peter Klein Literature Forum in Aachen

Personal

Sibylle Schleicher has been married to the former theater manager Volkmar Clauß (* 1942) since 1988 and has two children. She goes by the married name Clauss-Schleicher and lives with her family in Nersingen - Straß in the Neu-Ulm district .

Publications (selection)

literature
music
  • 2001 The rotten stone . Opera libretto.
  • 2005 Cinderella . Music CD (participation as a singer), Little Elephant Records (LC 13340).
radio play
  • 1999 The Klaritschotüüt . (Text and direction), Studio Art Of Time, Rothenberg.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Sibylle Schleicher . In: Walter De Gruyter Incorporated (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . Volumes 1-2; tape 67 , 2010, p. 926 .
  2. Review “Das schneeverbrannte Dorf” , buchkultur.net, accessed on April 10, 2018.
  3. Text of the eulogy , sibylleschleicher.de, accessed on 10 April 2018th
  4. Link to the CD , German National Library, d-nb.info, accessed on April 10, 2018.
  5. a b Dagmar Hub: Hello without bitterness. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. July 3, 2015, accessed April 10, 2018 .
  6. Presentation of the author , Klöpfer & Meyer website, kloepfer-meyer.de, accessed on April 10, 2018.
  7. Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. Volume 36, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1997, p. 211.