Sigrid dam

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Sigrid Damm (born December 7, 1940 in Gotha ) is a German literary scholar and author of numerous works on the "Weimar four stars" Wieland , Goethe , Herder and Schiller .

Life

Sigrid Damm grew up in Gotha, where she attended the 1959 Arnoldi school their Abitur took off. From 1959 to 1965 she studied German and history at the University of Jena . She then worked as a university lecturer in Jena and Berlin . In 1970 she earned her doctorate in philosophy with the thesis "Problems of Human Formation in the Drama of Hauptmann , Hoffmannsthal and Wedekinds " . In addition, she worked as an author on a “History of German Literature” published by Volk und Wissen Verlag . Since 1978 she has lived and worked as a freelance writer in Berlin. In 1993 she was a visiting professor at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow , and in 1994 at the University of Hamburg .

Sigrid Damm is primarily the author of works on people from the Weimar Classic . In particular with her books, written in a mixture of biography and fiction , about Goethe's childhood friend Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz and Goethe's wife Christiane von Goethe , she achieved great audiences. Most of her novels are from the 18th century.

Sigrid Damm is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature . On December 14, 2010, following a resolution by the city council, she was the first woman to be granted honorary citizenship of her hometown Gotha.

Her sons are also artistically active, Joachim Hamster Damm (* 1965) as a set designer and Tobias Damm (* 1969) as a computer graphic artist .

Works

  • Problems of shaping people in the drama Hauptmanns, Hofmannsthals and Wedekinds , Jena 1970 (Diss., Maschinenschr.)
  • Birds that proclaim land. The life of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz , Berlin / Weimar 1985 (reprint: Frankfurt am Main 1992)
  • Cornelia Goethe , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1987
    • Cornelia Goethe , Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988, 1989, 1992, 2005, 2006
    • Cornelia Goethe , Turin 1991 (Italian edition)
    • Ubawareta-sain¯o: Koruneria-G¯ete , Tokyo 1999 (Japanese edition)
  • I am not Ottilie , Roman, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1992
  • I would love to go out into the street and shout . Broadcast Essay ( SR 1992)
  • This loneliness without excess , Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1995
  • The most beautiful love poems , Insel taschenbuch 3469, Insel Verlag Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1996, ISBN 978-3458-35169-6 .
  • Das Bergwerk - Franz Fühmann (documentary by Karlheinz Mund , participation 1998)
  • Christiane and Goethe. Eine Recherche , Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1998 ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from July 19 to October 10, 1999 )
    • Christiane y Goethe. Historia de una relación , Madrid 2000 (Spanish edition)
    • Christiane et Goethe. Une recherche , Arles 2003 (French edition)
  • Breaths , essays, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1999
  • Diaries and night books from Lapland , Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2002 (together with Joachim Hamster Damm and Tobias Damm)
  • The life of Friedrich Schiller. A hike , Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2004
  • Obviously mysteriously. Goethe in the mountain , with colored images of Hamster Damm; Insel Verlag, Frankfurt and Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-17443-1 .
  • Goethe's last journey , Insel Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-46203-4
  • with Hans-Joachim Simm: I only look back once. Information , Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-458-35343-0 .
  • Where to go with me , Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-458-17529-2 .
  • Goethe's friends in Gotha and Weimar . Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-458-17611-4 .
  • Summer rain of love. Goethe and Frau vom Stein . Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-458-17644-2 .
  • Time drives in a circle. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-458-17737-1 .

Editing

  • Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz: Works and Letters , 3 volumes, Leipzig 1987
  • Caroline von Schelling : meeting Caroline , Leipzig 1979; Licensed edition: Caroline von Schelling: "Dear friend, I have come a long way this early morning" , Letters, Darmstadt 1980
  • Hyacinth and Rosenblüt , fairy tales of German romanticism, Berlin 1984
  • Caroline von Schelling: The most beautiful love poems , Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1996
  • Caroline von Schelling: The Art of Living , Letters, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1997
  • Christiane von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Keep me dear! Christianes and Goethe's marriage letters . Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1998 ( Insel-Bücherei 1198)
  • Christiane von Goethe: Diary 1816 and letters , Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1999
  • The most beautiful love poems , Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2000
  • Romantic fairy tales , Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2002
  • Friedrich Schiller : The blissful moments, poems . Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2005 (Insel-Bücherei 1263)

Honors

literature

  • Sigrid Damm: I just look back once. Information , Ed. Hans-Joachim Simm (texts by and about Damm), Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-458-35343-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dr. Sigrid Damm becomes the first honorary citizen of the royal seat of Gotha. December 9, 2010, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ member entry by Sigrid Damm at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 11.10.17
  3. ^ Sigrid Damm - reading. Pierre Werner Institute, accessed March 25, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Christina Maidt-Zinke: Lapland in Rome: Sigrid Damm writes a diary. ZEIT, January 3, 2013, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Sigrid Damm receives Weimar Prize 2020


personal data
SURNAME Damm, Sigrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, editor and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha