Ulrike Edschmid

Ulrike Edschmid (2012)

Ulrike Edschmid (born July 10, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German writer and textile artist.

Life

Ulrike Edschmid grew up at Schwarzenfels Castle in the Rhön ( Main-Kinzig district ), where her mother fled as a war widow with her and her brother. From there she first attended the Ulrich von Hutten grammar school in Schlüchtern . In the mid-1950s, her mother began studying at the Jugenheim University of Education , where she lived with her children in a dormitory.

After graduation in 1960 studied Ulrike Edschmid first at the Free University of Berlin Literature u. a. with Wilhelm Emrich, then at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin . During this time she was involved in the student movement , co-founded the first children's shops in Berlin and worked as a teacher for a short time. The son Sebastian Edschmid (* 1965) comes from the short marriage to the actor and director Enzio Edschmid .

After that she lived in a shared apartment with her child and the film student Werner Sauber . Sauber, who was a Swiss citizen, belonged to the second year of the film academy in Berlin (dffb) and had joined the " June 2nd Movement ", shot and killed a police officer in an exchange of fire with the police in Cologne and succumbed to his injuries himself. In 2013 Edschmid took up this experience as a novel and wrote the book The Disappearance of Philip S. , with which she achieved her literary breakthrough.

Ulrike Edschmid lives in Berlin.

Literary work

After the first literary work and radio broadcasts from the mid-1980s, Ulrike Edschmid's literary work moves at the interface between biography , contemporary history and fiction . In 1999 she published the much-noticed correspondence between her former father-in-law Kasimir Edschmid and his first wife, the artist and natural scientist Erna Pinner , who emigrated to England before the National Socialists , providing further insights into the rifts, alienation and speechlessness between the partners leaves. Edschmid is praised for the precise language of her largely narrow books.

Awards

For her novel The Disappearance of Philip S. Edschmid was awarded the Johann Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen Prize and the SWR Best List Prize in 2013, as well as the 2014 Johann Friedrich von Cotta Prize for Literature and Translation from the City of Stuttgart . In 2015 she received a scholarship from the Berlin Senate .

Works

• This side of the desk. Life stories of women, men who write. Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-630-61908-8 .
• Broken boundaries. Two women, two life stories. Luchterhand, Hamburg 1992; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-13034-4 .
• "We don't want to talk about it anymore ..." Erna Pinner and Kasimir Edschmid . A story in letters. Luchterhand, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-630-87027-9 .
• Woman with gun. Two stories from terrorist times. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 1996; Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39807-5 .
• After the thunderstorm. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-39981-0 .
• My mother's lovers. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-458-17308-0 .
• The Disappearance of Philip S. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42349-3 .
  • Stage version: Stephan Roppel. WP: Theater an der Winkelwiese , Zurich 2015.
• A man who falls. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-51842581-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrike Edschmid in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Ulrike Edschmid at perlentaucher.de
• Ulrike Edschmid Author profile on the Suhrkamp Verlag website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.filmportal.de/person/enzio-edschmid_a8431a141ad64d62bcede41dbd7426e7
2. ↑ https://www.hhprinzler.de/2013/04/leben-und-sterben-des-philip-werner-sauber/
3. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel : A gang for two. In: Der Spiegel , March 18, 2013, accessed on January 4, 2018.
4. ↑ Felix Schneider: Philip S .: From the Gold Coast to the armed underground. SRF, July 9, 2013, accessed January 4, 2018.
5. ↑ Who was Philipp Werner Sauber. In: Klaus Dethloff, Armin Golzem, Heinrich Hannover (eds.): A very ordinary murder trial? The political environment of the trial against Roland Otto, Karl Heinz Roth and Werner Sauber. 1978.
6. ↑ Ulrike Baureithel: Ulrike Edschmid - Proximity and Distance. Goethe-Institut website , February 2015, accessed on January 4, 2018.
7. ↑ Karen Fuchs in: https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article570487/Die-Vergangenheit-ist-anders.html
8. ↑ Roman Bucheli: The ease of the indicative. Review in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 16, 2013, accessed on January 4, 2018.
9. ↑ Martin Ebel : On you and you with Holger Meins. Review in: Die Welt , March 2, 2013, accessed on January 4, 2018.
10. ↑ Martin Ebel: Swiss in the German underground. In: Tages-Anzeiger , February 10, 2013, accessed on January 4, 2018.
11. ↑ Katja Baigger: A lonely wanderer in black and white. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 30, 2015, accessed on January 4, 2018.
12. ↑ "I was so impressed by the power" - Ulrike Edschmid in conversation with Carsten Hueck. Deutschlandfunk Kultur , May 5, 2017, accessed on January 4, 2018.
13. ↑ Ulrike Baureithel: Sitting out West Berlin in person. Review in: The Friday of May 17, 2017, accessed on January 4, 2018.
14. ↑ Ulrike Baureithel: “I don't want to invent anything, life invents everything itself”. In: WOZ Die Wochenzeitung , August 24, 2017, accessed on January 4, 2018.
15. ↑ Christoph Schröder : "A man who falls" by Ulrike Edschmid - The backbone of West Berlin. In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 3, 2016, accessed on January 4, 2018.
16. ↑ Bernadette Conrad: Autobiographical novel - A fallen man learns to walk again. SRF , June 27, 2017, accessed January 4, 2018.