Unda horns

Unda Hörner (born November 11, 1961 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German writer .

Life

Unda Hörner studied German and Romance studies at the Free University of Berlin and received her doctorate in Romance studies on Elsa Triolet in 1993 . The French writer portrayed her in 1998, alongside Dalí's muse Gala Éluard and André Breton's wife Simone, in The Real Women of Surrealists , as well as in Elsa Triolet and Louis Aragon . The lovers of the century . In 2000 her first novel Among Neighbors was published . In 2001 Unda Hörner was awarded the Bettina von Arnim Prize for her short story Hangar für Hellermann . The author, who also works as an editor, journalist and translator, has lived in Berlin since 1982 .

Audio

Why does hardly anyone know Marie Juchacz? 100 years of women's suffrage , 11.07 minutes (1/2 year online), conversation with Unda Hörner, Deutschlandfunk Kultur Conclusion, November 12, 2018
Interview in the blue hour by Jutta Szostak with Unda Hörner as part of the Wiesbaden cultural talks on the topic of women's suffrage, March 2019

Works

Meeting point Paris. A travelguide. Edition Regina Runhof, Munich 1986
The novel by Elsa Triolet. In the field of tension between avant-garde and socialist realism . The Blue Owl Publishing House, Essen 1993
Elsa Triolet and Louis Aragon. The lovers of the century. Rowohlt, Berlin 1998
The real women of the surrealists. Simone Breton, Gala Éluard, Elsa Triolet. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1998
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart . Gangster bride in sailor's thread. Rowohlt, Berlin 1999
In the triangle. Love relationships from Friedrich Nietzsche to Marguerite Duras . (Ed.) Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1999
Among neighbors. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000
Madame Man Ray . Avant-garde photographers in Paris. Edition Ebersbach , Berlin 2002
Nancy Cunard . Enfant terrible of the Parisian bohemian. Edition Ebersbach, Berlin 2002
Fleeting men. Stories. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2003
Off to Hiddensee ! The bohemian is on vacation. Edition Ebersbach, Berlin 2003
Up in the good air. The bohemian in Davos . Edition Ebersbach, Berlin 2005
Above the roofs of the city. Balcony stories. (Ed.) Edition Ebersbach, Berlin 2006
A love for three. Seven portraits. Edition Ebersbach, Berlin 2009
Places of Jewish life in Berlin. Literary walks through Mitte. Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2010
Sharp-sighted women. Photographers in Paris in the 20s and 30s. Edition Ebersbach, Berlin 2010
The architects Bruno and Max Taut. Two brothers - two paths in life. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2012
Berlin air - Parisian life. History and stories. Edition Ebersbach, Berlin 2012
It doesn't work without women. Kurt Tucholsky and love. ebersbach & simon, Berlin 2017
Kafka and Felice. Novel . ebersbach & simon, Berlin 2017
1919. The year of women. ebersbach & simon, Berlin 2018
Gala Dalí. On the horizon of the seas. Novel. ebersbach & simon, Berlin 2019

Translations

Paul Éluard and Benjamin Péret: 125 proverbs brought up to date. (Translated from the French and edited by Unda Hörner and Wolfram Kiepe) Anabas, Gießen 1995
André Breton: Entretiens - Talks. Dada, surrealism, politics. (Translated from the French and edited by Unda Hörner and Wolfram Kiepe) Verlag der Kunst, Amsterdam / Dresden 1996
Dada versus Dada. The Barrès affair . (Translated from the French and edited by Unda Hörner and Wolfram Kiepe) Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 1997
Leonetta Bentivoglio and Francesco Carbone: Pina Bausch or the art of dancing over carnations. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007

Awards

2001 Bettina von Arnim Prize
2013 Heinrich Mann grant

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Horns, Unda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kaiserslautern