Silvia Bovenschen

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Silvia Bovenschen (2011)

Silvia Bovenschen (born March 5, 1946 in Point near Waakirchen , Upper Bavaria ; † October 25, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German author and essayist and a representative of feminist literary studies .

Life

Bovenschen grew up as the daughter of a director of a stock corporation in Frankfurt am Main . Here she studied literature , sociology and philosophy . In the course of the 1968 movement she co-founded the local women's council of the SDS . In 1979 she completed her doctorate at the University of Frankfurt am Main with a thesis on Imagined Femininity , a treatise that is counted among the standard feminist works.

In her mid-twenties, she learned that she had multiple sclerosis ; Nevertheless, she taught at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main for 20 years, but eventually had to give up this job due to illness. She was legally denied civil service due to the illness. In 2003 she moved to Berlin and started writing novels. In 2006 came her bestseller Getting Older. Notes. out.

Bovenschen was elected a member of the Academy of the Arts (Berlin) in 2011 . In 2013 she was accepted into the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

The literary scholar and essayist lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg with her partner Sarah Schumann (1933–2019). Silvia Bovenschen died in October 2017 as a result of her illness. In 2018 her novel Lug & Trug & Rat & Streben, which was completed while she was still alive, was published posthumously .

Bovenschen saw herself as an intellectual and feminist who emphasized “style” and “beauty” in her life and work, as she said in an interview shortly before her death.

Works

Editing

  • The lists of fashion. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-518-11338-0 .
  • with Winfried Frey, Stefan Fuchs, Walter Raitz and Dieter Seitz: The text that has become strange. Festschrift for Helmut Brackert on his 65th birthday. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-11-014940-0 .
  • with Jörg Bong : Everyday rituals. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-10-003511-9 .
  • with Juliane Beckmann: About friendship. A reader. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-90227-9 .

Smaller fonts

  • Foreword to Friedrich Markus Hübner (Ed.): The woman of tomorrow as we want her. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-458-32894-7 . (Critical foreword to the new edition of the anthology first published in 1929). In: Make worse, laugh worse. Articles and pamphlets. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-88661-199-X . Again as Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2009, pp. 68–79.
  • The movements of friendship. Attempt to approach. In: Neue Rundschau 1986, issue 4, pp. 89–111. Again in: Marlis Gerhardt (Hrsg.): Essays of famous women. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-458-33641-9 , pp. 215-235. In: Make worse, laugh worse. Articles and pamphlets. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-88661-199-X . Again as Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2009, pp. 28–53.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Silvia Bovenschen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The writer Silvia Bovenschen has died. In: mdr.de. October 27, 2017. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Lothar Müller: Talent for friendship (title in the print edition: Dreams the dumb nightingale, she sings. Self-irony and unsentimentality - the narrator and essayist Silvia Bovenschen has died. ). In: sueddeutsche.de . October 27, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
  3. ^ Zeit online literature from October 26, 2017: Silvia Bovenschen is dead
  4. ^ A b Vojin Saša Vukadinović : The untimely. In: jungle-world.com . November 16, 2017. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .
  5. ^ Zeit online literature from October 26, 2017: Silvia Bovenschen is dead
  6. ↑ New members of the Academy of Arts 2011 . Press release of the Akademie der Künste, June 6, 2011, accessed on October 26, 2017.
  7. ↑ Sivia Bovenschen member of the German Academy . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 25, 2013, page 29.
  8. ↑ Waltraud Schwab: Silvia Bovenschen on life and death. “I did my thing.” Taz-online October 28, 2017. Interview, Taz-Print: When I was young, everyone wanted to be intellectuals . 28/29 October 2017, p. 11f.
  9. ↑ Bavarian Book Prize: "Stylistic elegance and contagious cheerfulness". In: Börsenblatt . November 5, 2014, archived from the original on August 18, 2016 ; Retrieved October 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bovenschen, Silvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, author and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Point near Waakirchen , Upper Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2017
Place of death Berlin