Sylvia Kabus

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Sylvia Kabus (born January 15, 1952 in Görlitz ) is a German director, author and journalist.

life and work

Sylvia Kabus studied English and German in Berlin and was the editor of a magazine for culture from 1974 to 1983. Then she worked as a writer for the DEFA feature film studio. For her work on the film Felix and the Wolf (1988) she received awards in the GDR and in West Berlin .

After 1989 she was involved in the citizens' and women's movement and was a member of the Leipzig Round Table . In 1990 she was involved in the liquidation of the GDR Writers' Association together with Reinhard Bernhof , Roland Erb and Ingeborg Schröder, and in the following year she became a literary employee in the literary office of Leipzig eV, which she helped build, for the Association of German Writers (VS) in the ver.di union she was elected as an assessor to the board of the state district of Bavaria .

She is currently working on a freelance basis for the MDR and on her own publications. Sylvia Kabus lives in Munich and Leipzig.

Work

Publications

  • I do not wish anything. I wish everything. Portraits of Foreign Youths (1995)
  • Dr. A. asks for continuous paper. Psychograms of a German city. (1999)
  • We were the last. Conversations with displaced Jews. (2003)
  • Whiter than snow. (2008)
  • Nineteen eighty-nine. Psychograms of a German city. (2009)

as editor a. a .:

  • Cherry tree leaves. Stuck dream. Youth texts from Saxony. (1996)
  • Mess me? A youth report. (1999)
  • mixed voices 2002. Calendar for new and old poems. (2001)

Radio

  • The greatest life arises from the greatest fear. Görlitz - City in the East (radio feature, US 1994)
  • "Who does not believe in the state ..." A trip to Silesia (US, 2002)
  • Saxony in Bavaria. The Migration of East Germans (US, 2005)
  • Bamberg (US, 2007)

Movies

literature

  • Ines Geipel: Censored, Discreet, Forgotten: Women Authors in East Germany 1945-1989 . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2009. ISBN 978-3-583-07269-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ines Geipel: Censored, concealed, forgotten. Women authors in East Germany 1945-1989. In: perlentaucher.de. October 8, 2010, accessed June 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kabus, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz