Sigrun Casper

Sigrun Casper

Sigrun Casper (born May 18, 1939 in Kleinmachnow near Berlin) is a German writer .

Life

"Nonsense in the head", 1991

After graduating from high school in 1957, Sigrun Casper first completed a one-year training course as an industrial seamstress at VEB Berliner Linie before studying drama at the Leipzig Theater Academy from 1958 to 1959. After dropping out of her studies, she worked as a saleswoman in the Deutsche Bücherstube in Berlin-Mitte from 1959 to 1961, before escaping to West Berlin via Checkpoint Charlie at the end of 1961 , where she worked at the Academy for Craft Art and Fashion from 1962 to 1966 (1971 in integrated the University of Fine Arts ) studied fabric design.

After the bankruptcy of her arts and crafts business in Berlin-Schöneberg and subsequent training as a steno clerk, she studied pedagogy as a German and art teacher at the Berlin University of Education from 1971–1975. From 1975–1994 Sigrun Casper worked - only interrupted by a four-semester postgraduate course in special education - as a special education teacher at a school for the disabled in Berlin-Wedding.

Act

From 1970 to 1980, Sigrun Casper first appeared irregularly as a freelancer for the Berliner Tagesspiegel with glosses and reflections, before finally publishing her first book in 1984. In the following years she has been working since 1999 primarily with the Tuebingen konkursbuch publisher of Claudia Gehrke together with its literary emphasis so far is mainly due to publications of short stories and novels, including two youth book stories.

Based on her studies as a fabric pattern designer, Sigrun Casper is also active in painting: after a large number of canvas paintings (see illustration) that she created in the early 1990s and some of which were also exhibited, she is currently working in this field all with object painting. An ambitious photographer since childhood, she was also able to include many of her photos in her own book publications and in 2004 also made them the design basis of a card game for children.

bibliography

Children's and young people's literature

• The knight over the shadow . Beltz & Gelberg , Weinheim-Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-80690-6
• The sea is just around the corner . KeRLE-Verlag , Freiburg-Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85303-105-6 ; TB edition dtv , Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-78172-6

Poetry

• Follow-up book 25 - Sigrun Casper . Aphaia-Verlag, Berlin 1997
• Timeless your smile. Erotic poems. Konkursbuch Verlag , Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88769-755-6
• Reading Book 115 - Poems . Aphaia Verlag, Berlin 2012
• A scrap of sky blue. Poems. Konkursbuch Verlag , Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-88769-682-5

prose

• The inexplicable Schmandlau . Short stories. Drawings by Anni Schroeder. Self-published, Berlin 1980
• The monster . 10 Berlin love stories. Writer Ute Erb , Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-923695-00-4
• Fossils . Short prose. New Society for Literature eV, Berlin 1988
• Handwriting of a murder . Novel. Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-88769-146-6
• Stay, bird . Love stories. Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-88769-159-8
• Sumsilaizos. Novel. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House , Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7725-1958-X
• Salt and butterfly . Novel. Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-88769-192-X
• Togetherness and other sweet words . Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-88769-183-0
• Another cat . Novel. Drawings by Sonja Köditz. Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-88769-340-X
• It's Chagall's fault. East-West stories. Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88769-375-6
• Men's stories . Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88769-732-7
• ars incognita / Images and thoughts on art . Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-88769-787-7
• The word juggler . Novel. konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-88769-573-6 (also as an e-book )
• The inexplicable Mr. Schmandlau . Stories. Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-88769-697-9

Editorships

• Bankruptcy Book 40: Age . Edited together with Klaus Berndl, Jenny Schon, Hartmut Kieselbach. Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-88769-240-3
• Bankruptcy Book 43: Shame . Ed. Together with Klaus Berndl, Salean A. Maiwald . Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-88769-243-8
• Bankruptcy Book 48: Family Ties . Collection of articles, ed. together with Claudia Gehrke . Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88769-248-3
• Bankruptcy Book 51: Outsiders . Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-88769-251-3
• Bankruptcy Book 52: Love . Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-88769-252-0
• Bankruptcy Book 53: Money . Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-88769-253-7
• Bankruptcy Book 54: Lies . Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-88769-254-4

Others

• The fantastic alphabet quartet . Card game by Sigrun Casper (photographs and text) and Andrea Schultz (photographs and text); Persen Verlag, Buxtehude 2004, 3rd edition ISBN 978-3-83440-310-0
• The Japanese do it with chairs . CD. Author reading of word sweetie and stay, bird . Konkursbuch Verlag, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88769-424-1
• Letter trio . Playing with photo cards by Sigrun Casper and Andrea Schultz, graphic design by Kai Casper; Wehrfritz GmbH , Bad Rodach 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography and information on the work of Sigrun Casper at Literaturport

Web links

• Literature by and about Sigrun Casper in the catalog of the German National Library
• buecher.de Review of Sigrun Casper: Sumsilaizos from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from April 13, 2002