Sigrid Lichtenberger

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Sigrid Lichtenberger (born May 27, 1923 in Leipzig ; † November 22, 2016 in Bielefeld ) was a German writer and poet .

biography

Sigrid Lichtenberger, born in 1923 as Sigrid Mertens, lived in her hometown until 1948, where she attended school and later studied chemistry. After a few detours, she moved to Bielefeld in 1953, where she later lived and worked. She attended the literature seminars with Ursula Kayser (Göttingen) and took part in the writing workshop of the Bielefeld Adult Education Center.

Since 1987 she has been a member of IG Medien and the Association of German Writers (VS) and, since 1990, of the Society for Contemporary Poetry . Her literary themes related to people (images of life) and human relationships, she wrote about Bielefeld, Leipzig, Greece and Argentina, wrote prayer poems and processed autobiographical content. In addition to poetry and short stories, she has been writing a play (a "play") every year since 1990 as an introduction to a Bible week. In 2003 Lichtenberger received the diploma in literary writing at the Cornelia Goethe Academy in Frankfurt am Main.

Sigrid Lichtenberger leaves four children behind.

Honourings and prices

  • Culture Prize of the City of Bielefeld, 2009

Works

prose

  • The hour of life. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2016.
  • Of going and staying. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2016.
  • Find ways. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2015.
  • Nobody wants to be forgotten. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2015.
  • The loneliness of the jackdaws. Prose. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2014.
  • Without yesterday there is no today. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2013.
  • This Sunday morning. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2011.
  • South. A travel mosaic. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2008.
  • As if doors were opening - My path through life between 1945 and 2000. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2007.
  • Arno. A merchant in Leipzig. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2006.
  • The freedom of abandonment. Stories. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2006.
  • My self in the structure of time. To be young from 1923 to 1945. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2005.
  • Encounters in Bielefeld. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2004.
  • The autumn of change. Stories. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2003.
  • Time derails on the platform. Stories. Pendragon-Verlag: Bielefeld 1998.
  • Everyone is different. Prose poems. Pendragon-Verlag: Bielfeld 1997.
  • The piano in the jungle. Encounters in Argentina. OWA 1996.
  • Mulekin. A big city story. With drawings by Yvonne Kuschel. Pendragon-Verlag: Bielefeld 1994.
  • From the end. Stories. Odin-Verlag: Bielefeld 1983.

Poetry

  • The foreign becomes close. Pendragon: Bielefeld: Bielefeld 2018.
  • Sometimes one straw is a lot. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2016.
  • The city's most beautiful. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2015.
  • On a sphere in space. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2012.
  • Next - still again. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2010.
  • Talk to God about the world. Poems for newspaper notes. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2008.
  • About closeness and parting. Poems. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2006.
  • Poems in troubled times. Pendragon: Bielefeld 2003.
  • At the flow of words. Scheffler-Verlag: Herdecke 2002.
  • Stone language. With drawings by Pascale Gräbener. Sym-Verlag: Riedenburg 2000.
  • Loneliness. Pendragon-Verlag: Bielefeld 1996.
  • As if my doubt was a way Prayer poems. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 1995.
  • Seek the city's most beautiful. Poems about sculptures in Bielefeld. heka-Verlag: Leopoldshöhe 1991.
  • Knock sign. Pendragon-Verlag: Bielefeld 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ^ Sigrid Lichtenberger. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 632, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Lichtenberger, Sigrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mertens, Sigrid (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 22nd November 2016
Place of death Bielefeld