Undine Gruenter
Undine Gruenter (born August 27, 1952 in Cologne , † October 5, 2002 in Paris ) was a German writer.
Life
Gruenter was the daughter of the writer Astrid Gehlhoff-Claes and the Germanist Rainer Gruenter . She spent the first year and a half of her life in an orphanage.
Undine Gruenter studied law, literature and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg , Bonn and Wuppertal ; The rector of the latter university at the time was her father Rainer Gruenter. She was married to the literary scholar Karl Heinz Bohrer .
In 1986 she received the North Rhine-Westphalia Prize for Literature .
From 1987 she lived in Paris. Two months before she died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in October 2002 , Undine Gruenter completed her last novel: The Locked Garden . Her estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .
Works
- 1986 A Picture of Unrest (novel)
- 1989 night blind ( short stories)
- 1991 The glass café (short stories)
- 1992 expulsion from the labyrinth (novel)
- 1993 Epiphany, faded out (prose pieces)
- New edition 2010: Epiphanies, grayed out. 56 pieces of prose . Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-8333-0669-3
- 1995 The author as prompter. Journal 1986-1992
- 2001 The hiding place of the Minotaur (novel)
- 2003 Summer guests in Trouville ( short stories)
- 2004 The locked garden. Novel . Hanser, Munich, ISBN 3-446-20456-3 .
- 2005 Parisian Libertinages (prose)
- 2008 Through the horizon - a poem
literature
- Marion Gees: Journal and self-masking (Undine Gruenter) , in: Marion Gees, writing location Paris. On German-language diaries and journal literature 1945 to 2000 , Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2006, ISBN 978-3-89528-581-3
- Oliver Sill: Undine Gruenter: "The locked garden" (2004) , in: Oliver Sill, Sitte - Sex - Scandal. Love in literature since Goethe , Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2009, ISBN 978-3-89528-755-8
- Monika Wolting : The garden as a topos in the work of Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Undine Gruenter and Sarah Kirsch. Wrocław 2009, ISBN 978-83-229-2985-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Undine Gruenter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Review of Undine Gruenter's life's work in Die Zeit , No. 14/2003
- Anita Hugi : Undine Gruenter , documentary, SRF (editorial staff, Sternstunden) 2016, 52 minutes
Individual evidence
- ↑ Undine Gruenter - The project of love. Swiss Radio and Television SRF, accessed on February 6, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gruenter, Undine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 2002 |
| Place of death | Paris |