Ulrike Kolb

Ulrike Kolb at a reading at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2009

Ulrike Kolb (born July 14, 1942 in Saarbrücken ) is a German writer .

Life

After graduating from high school, Ulrike Kolb studied at a boarding school in the Black Forest for two semesters at the Werkkunstschule Saarbrücken . She then graduated from a household school in Paris and a language school in London . This was followed by training as a foreign language correspondent in Berlin and studying pedagogy . During this time Kolb was involved in the student movement .

She worked in Berlin in a children's shop and a youth home and after moving to Frankfurt am Main in a technical school for kindergarten teachers and a daycare center . From 1979 she worked as a journalist and wrote a. a. Columns for the Frankfurter Rundschau . Today she lives as a freelance writer in Berlin.

Ulrike Kolb is the author of novels and short stories in which different forms of experience of reality and, above all, memory play an important role.

Ulrike Kolb received several literary scholarships , in 1995 the Prize of the State of Carinthia at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition , most recently the Eugen Viehof Prize of Honor from the German Schiller Foundation .

Works (selection)

As an author

Fiction

• The raven. Narration . Tende Verlag, Münster 1984, ISBN 3-88633-130-X .
• Ida's idea. Novel . Dtv, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-10818-5 (reprint of the Frankfurt / M. 1985 edition).
• Beautiful life. Novel . Conte Verlag, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 3-9808118-2-4 (reprint of the Cologne 1990 edition).
• A love in its time. Novel . Dtv, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-423-13108-X (Nachdt. D. Reinbek 1995).
• Novel without a hero . 3rd edition Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-608-93405-7 .
• Breakfast with Max. Roman . Dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-12911-5 (reprint of the Stuttgart 2000 edition).
• That one night. Novel . Dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-13292-2 (reprint of the Stuttgart 2003 edition).
• Yoram. Novel . Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0559-5 .
• The sleepless. Novel . Wallstein, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1211-1 .

Non-fiction

• Salto vital. Women in everyday projects . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt / M. 1981, ISBN 3-596-24048-4 (together with Jutta Stössinger).
• Where nature is at its most beautiful. Natural monuments in Hessen . Verlag Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-89234-044-7 (together with Klaus Bossemeyer and Elisabeth Kiderlen)

As editor

• The temptation of the normal. Authors face their story . Tende Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1986, ISBN 3-88633-091-5 .

As a translator

• Jacques Briod : I will not let myself be hindered (“Soudain un train”). Droemer Knaur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-426-77675-8 .
• Amaury du Closel : Choked voices. “ Degenerate music ” in the Third Reich (“Les voix étouffées du IIIe Reich”). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78292-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ also published as an audio book: Beautiful life . Edition Echo Mundi 2002, ISBN 3-934429-88-2 (3 CDs, read by the author)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrike Kolb in the catalog of the German National Library