Therese Chromik

Therese Chromik , maiden name Rieffert (born October 16, 1943 in Liegnitz , Lower Silesia Province ) is a German writer .

Personal

Resi Rieffert (later Therese Chromik) was born on October 16, 1943 in Liegnitz in what is now Poland. After fleeing in 1945, she grew up in the Lüneburg Heath. She married Christian Chromik in 1970 and had two sons, Marcus and Ansgar. She has been widowed since 1979.

Professional background

Therese Chromik studied philosophy, German studies, geography and art in Marburg and Kiel from 1964 and taught at grammar schools in Kiel and Husum from 1970. Since 1980 she has been running student writing workshops for creative writing as well as writing seminars for young authors. This resulted in publications and teaching assignments at the Faculty of Education at Kiel University on creative writing. She trained teachers as a specialist in German at the School's Institute for Practice and Theory. At times she was an associate consultant in the Ministry of Culture. She was a member of the jury of the nationwide competition "Students write". From 2000 Therese Chromik was the headmistress of the Theodor Storm School in Husum . Since 2007 she has been a lecturer in creative writing at the JuniorAkademie . In 2011 she received her PhD from the University of Wroclaw . From 1983 on, Therese Chromik published her own poetry and prose in various publishers. She has been co-editor of the Euterpe yearbook (volumes 2-11) and various anthologies since 1984 . Therese Chromik has been awarded several prizes.

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Therese Chromik is above all a poet , but also writes prose, especially short prose, stories and biographies. She illustrated some volumes herself. Edith Hamer has set some of her poems to music . She also works on interdisciplinary projects with painters from GEDOK (Association of Artists' Communities and Art Funders). She is a member of various literary societies. Many of her poems have been translated into several languages. “Heaven above me” and “The beautiful principle” were translated into Polish and published in Wroclaw.

Fonts

Books

• On road. Poems with your own graphics . With interpretation by Erich Trunz 1983. 3rd edition. Hohenwestedt 1990, ISBN 3-924256-40-3 , vgr.
• Key words. Poems. Kiel 1984, ISBN 3-924723-00-1 vgr.
• Bright spots. Poems and stories. Kiel 1985, ISBN 3-924723-05-2 .
• Flight shadow. Poems and prose poems. 2nd Edition. Husum 1995, ISBN 3-88042-399-7 .
• Prickly flower. Poems and short prose. With settings by Edith Hamer. Husum 1990, ISBN 3-88042-515-9 .
• When it came back, paradise. One cycle. Husum 1992, ISBN 3-88042-624-4 .
• Wooden headers. Short prose with own graphics. Hohenwestedt / Nordstrand 1993, ISBN 3-924256-49-7 vgr.
• Kores singing. Poems. Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-87057-221-3 .
• We planet children. Poems. Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-87057-237-X .
• The sky above me Poems. Husum 2003, ISBN 3-89876-097-9 .
  • Polish translation: Niebo nade mną. Wiersze . Wrocław 2008, ISBN 978-83-7432-426-7 .
• The beautiful principle. Poems. 2006, ISBN 3-89876-273-4 .
  • Polish translation: Piękna zasada. Wiersze . Wrocław 2007, ISBN 978-83-7432-290-4 .
• Since I was a kid. Stories. Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-87057-303-4 .
• Franziska zu Reventlow (1871-1918). "If only I can love". Biography. Schmidt and Klaunig, Kiel 2009, ISBN 978-3-88312-415-5 .
• I want to believe it's summer. Poems. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2010, ISBN 978-3-941037-50-2 .
  • Polish translation: Chcę wierzyć, że jest lato. Wrocław 2016. ISBN 978-83-7977-236-0
• Theory and Practice of Creative Writing. (Teoria i Schwieryka Kreatywnego pisania). (also dissertation, University of Breslau, Wrocław 2012), long edition, Berlin, Warszawa, New York 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-63221-5 .
• ... in the moody rhythm of heaven ... poems. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2012, ISBN 978-3-941037-86-1 .
• Helmut Braun (Ed.): I share the sea with my arms. Selected poems. On the occasion of Therese Chromik's 70th birthday. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2013, ISBN 978-3-944566-10-8 .
• Ida Dehmel. A life for art. Verlag Husum Druck, Husum 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-783-5 .
• The third testament. Prose. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2015, ISBN 978-3-944566-42-2 .
• North Frisian impressions and their transfer into Frisian (headed by Prof. Dr. Thomas Steensen), with photos by Uwe Lorenzen, Husum 2016, ISBN 978-3-89876-836-8
• Poppy love, poems and their translation into Low German (Karl Heinz Groth) with photos by Uwe Lorenzen, Husum 2017, ISBN 978-3-89876-872-6
• Helmut Braun (Ed.): Therese Chromik , Wilhelmshorst: Märkischer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-943708-37-0

Editions:

• About the illegibility of being. Festschrift for Bodo Heimann, Husum 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-791-0 .

Co-editor of the yearbooks Euterpe, Euterpe Verlag Kiel 1984 then Husum Verlag, Husum

Bd. 2 mit Bodo Heimann, Hedwig Heckt und Friedrich Mülder (1984)
Bd. 3 mit Bodo Heimann, Hedwig Heckt und Friedrich Mülder (1985)
Bd. 4 mit Bodo Heimann, Friedrich M+lder und Doris Runge (1986)
Bd. 5 mit Bodo Heimann, Friedrich Mülder und Doris Runge (1987)
Bd. 6 mit Bodo Heimann und Friedrich Mülder (1988)
Bd. 7 mit Bodo Heimann und Friedrich Mülder (1989)
Bd. 8 mit Bodo Heimann und Friedrich Mülder (1990)
Bd. 9 mit Bodo Heimann und Friedrich Mülder (1991)
Bd. 10 mit Bodo Heimann, Sigurd Schmidt und Helmut Kasper (1992)

Anthologies published by Husum Verlag Poetic Landscapes, ed. with Bodo Heimann and Friedrich Mülder, Husum 2001, ISBN 3-88042-996-0 . Poetic portraits, ed. with Bodo Heimann and Friedrich Mülder, Husum 2005, ISBN 3-89876-223-8 . Poetic Gardens, ed. with Bodo Heimann, Husum 2008, ISBN 978-3-89876-424-7 . Invocation of Peace, ed. with Bodo Heimann, Husum 2010, ISBN 978-3-89876-488-9 . Living Together, ed. with Bodo Heimann, Husum 2013, ISBN 978-3-89876-677-7 .

Publications, essay contributions

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• The chance of poetry. In: Bodo Heimann , Therese Chromik, Friedrich Mülder (eds.): Euterpe. Yearbook for literature . Volume 6. Husum 1988, pp. 11-16.
• 'Poetry' in school. In: Praxis Pedagogy. Diesterweg, 1992.
• Hilde Domin . At the limit of silence. In: Carsten Gansel , Paweł Zimniak (Ed.): Speeches and Silence in German-Language Literature after 1945 . Case studies. Wrocław / Dresden 2006, pp. 385–406.
• The great unknown. Rose alien . In: Norbert Honza, Helmut Skowronek (Ed.): Zbliżenia Interkulturowe / Intercultural Approaches . Wrocław, 2008
• Ida, the muse between two poets . In: Studia Niemcoznacze, Warszawa 2014, tom LIV
• Learn from the poet. Bodo Heimann . In: Studia Niemcoznacze, Warszawa 2015, tom LV
• From the illegibility of the Sens . For Bodo Heimann's 80th birthday. In: Studia Niemcoznacze, Warszawa 2015, tom LV
• Karoline von Günderode. Dream and reality. Studia Niemcoznacze, Warszawa 2015, tom LV
• Theory and Practice of Creative Writing, Polish Studies in German Studies, Cultural Studies and Linguistics, Edited by Norbert Honsza, Volume 1, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-63221-5
• Life in word. Poets in threatening times. European studies in German studies, cultural studies and linguistics. Volume 11, edited by Monika Wolting, Norbert Honsza, Przemysław Sznurkowski, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-631-77004-7

Publications, poetry contributions in anthologies

among others in: Frankfurter Anthologie 14 Ed. Reich-Ranicki, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1991 Women poetry differently, Ed. Reich-Ranicki, Insel Verlag 1998

• Addicted to words . Anthology by GEDOK Schleswig-Holstein, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89876-692-0
• Variety of voices. Poems from Schleswig-Holstein from the baroque to the present. Edited by Peter Nicolaisen, Wachholtz Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-529-02371-2
• Kiel im Gedicht, edited by Walter Arnold, Kiel 2017, ISBN 978-3-529-05166-1
• Gifts of the Sea, published by Uwe Wollf, Eschbach, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86917-604-8

Awards

• State Prize of GEDOK Schleswig-Holstein 1989.
• VS travel grant from the Federal Foreign Office in 1994.
• Andreas-Gryphius-Förderpreis 1994.
• Prize of GEDOK Rhein-Main-Taunus 1998.
• Scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben 1999.
• Edith Heine Prize 2011.
• Nicolaus Lenau Prize 2012.
• Andreas Gryphius Prize 2014.

literature

• Bodo Heimann : The message of the sea thistle. In: Schleswig-Holstein. 5, Husum 1992.
• Eugeniusz Klein: ideological components of the style figures using the example of lyrical texts from Kiel contemporary poets. In: Germanistyka. 14, Zielona Góra 1998.
• Bodo Heimann: “What I cannot say remains unredeemed.” The poet Therese Chromik. In: Schleswig-Holstein. 10, Husum 2003.
• Literature calendar. Spectrum of mind. 2006, Husum 2005.
• Eberhard Günter Schulz : From the contribution of the Silesians to German culture. Wuerzburg 2007.
• Bodo Heimann: "Poetry that is great despite its scarcity". The poet Therese Chromik. In: E. Bialek, H. Unverricht (Ed.): Literarisches Liegnitz. Dresden / Wrocław 2008.
• Jan Pacholski: Silesian Authors Polish. In: Silesia Nova. Quarterly magazine for culture and history. Published by the Institute for German Philology at the Universities of Breslau and Dresden, 2008.
• Sonja Wenzel: "Poetry is a necessity". Portrait of the author Therese Chromik. In: Journal shz. 2008.
• Bodo Heimann (ed.): The chance of poetry. Festschrift for Therese Chromik. Kiel 2009.
• Bodo Heimann: Poetry as the actual human language. The poetry of Therese Chromik. In: Chance of Poetry. Festschrift for Therese Chromik. Kiel 2009, pp. 40-55.

Web links

• Literature by and about Therese Chromik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Therese Chromik