Ursula Krechel

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Ursula Krechel signing in 2019

Ursula Krechel (born December 4, 1947 in Trier ) is a German writer . She writes poetry , narrative prose , novels , essays , plays and radio plays .

Life

Ursula Krechel was born the daughter of a psychologist . She dedicated the first poem of the first volume of poetry Nach Mainz! To her mother, who died young . After graduating from the new language grammar school for girls in Trier in 1966, she studied German , theater studies and art history at the University of Cologne . During her studies, which she completed in 1971 with a doctorate and a dissertation on Herbert Ihering , she wrote articles for Westdeutscher Rundfunk and the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . From 1969 to 1972 she was dramaturge at the Städtische Bühnen Dortmund and directed theater projects with juvenile prisoners .

From 1972 she lived as a freelance writer in Frankfurt's Westend .

Ursula Krechel has been teaching at home and abroad since the 1980s. In 1984 she was visiting professor at Warwick University in England, in 1989/90 she gave poetry lectures in Vienna , was writer-in-residence at Washington University St. Louis / USA in 1991 , and poet-in-residence in 1993/94 from the University of Essen , 1997-1999 visiting professor at the German Literature Institute at the University of Leipzig , 2000 writer-in-residence at the Ben Gurion University of Beer , 2002 Escriptora convidada in Barcelona and in the summer semester 2007 Research Fellow at the Washington University St. Louis / USA. From 1998 to 2001 and from 2008 to 2011 she was the director of the prose workshop at the Berlin Literary Colloquium .

The author is a member of the PEN Center Germany , the German Academy for Language and Poetry (since 2012), the Berlin Academy of Arts (since 2017) and Vice President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz .

Ursula Krechel lives in Berlin with her husband Herbert Wiesner , who has been the director of the Berliner Literaturhaus for many years .

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The impossibility of emancipation is the subject of Erika , the first play by Ursula Krechel, with which she drew attention in 1974. The action, set in the milieu of the Rhenish petty bourgeoisie, depicts the young woman's attempt to break out of a world that was perceived as oppressive, a constricting marriage and professional hopelessness, which was finally broken off. It was premiered in the Landestheater Castrop-Rauxel. In 1976 Luchterhand published the book Self Experience and Foreign Determination. Report from the new women's movement , in which she defines the political and social position of the women's movement since 1968. The book had numerous editions by 1983.

In 2008 and 2012 two novels were particularly popular, both of which deal with exile. In the novel Shanghai far from where , published in 2008, she describes the fate of some of the eighteen thousand Jews who have been able to use one of the last visa-free loopholes since 1938 and thus survive in the distant, strange Shanghai ghetto . The novel also traces the return of exiles to Germany after the Second World War and shows the ruthlessness with which the returnees were dealt with ex officio.

Krechel's novel Landgericht , published in 2012, received the German Book Prize . The focus of the novel is the Jewish judge Dr. Richard Kornitzer, who returned to Germany from exile in Havana in 1947 to his scattered family "and broke up when he lost the struggle to restore his dignity in the narrowness of post-war Germany". The real role model for this fictional character is the judge Robert Michaelis . 2017 appeared in Germany under the title Landgericht. Story of a Family a two-part television adaptation with Ronald Zehrfeld and Johanna Wokalek in the leading roles. In the context of the description of Kornitzer's exile in Havana, the district court also contains a haunting description of the German-speaking exile community that exists there. Its members, portrayed by Krechel, include, for example, Fritz Lamm , Hans and Lisa Fittko , Emma Kann , Julius Deutsch and Boris Goldenberg .

Together with the novel Geisterbahn , published in 2018, this resulted in a trilogy of the excluded, also a story of displacement from the early Federal Republic. The novel covers almost 100 years of German history in a panorama from Ursula Krechel's hometown Trier. The focus is on a Sinti family.

Works

Poetry

Ursula Krechel at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2018
  • To Mainz! Luchterhand, Darmstadt, 1977, ISBN 3-472-86442-7 .
  • Vulnerable like in the best of times. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1979, ISBN 3-472-86491-5 .
  • Rough cut. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-472-86572-5 .
  • Learning from fire. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1985, ISBN 3-472-86620-9 .
  • Cocoa blue. Poems. Residence, Salzburg 1989.
  • Technique of awakening. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-40431-8 .
  • Extremely inside. With etchings by Irmgard Flemming. Edition Flemming, Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Popular miracle. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-40715-5 .
  • Disgruntled. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-39282-4 .
  • Bowing to the air. Residence, Salzburg 1999, ISBN 3-7017-1165-8 .
  • Rough cut. Poem in 60 sequences . Poetry edition 2000, Munich 2002.
  • Voices from the hard core. Poem. Jung und Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-902144-98-X .
  • Middle. Poem. zu Klampen, Springe 2006, ISBN 3-933156-86-6 .
  • Suddenly lit darkness. Poems. Jung and Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902497-67-3 .
  • That one. Selected poems . Jung and Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99027-046-2 .

prose

Plays

  • Erika. Play. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1973.
  • I think a guinea pig will kick me . Play for children. In: Marion Victor (ed.): Playground. Vol. 10. Frankfurt / M. (Verlag der Authors) 1997. pp. 127-135.
  • From the sun . Play. Frankfurt / M. (Publishing house of the authors) 1985.
  • Sit, Stay, Go. Play. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
  • Dear piece. Play. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 2003.

Essays (selection)

  • Information and evaluation: Investigations into the theater and film critical work of Herbert Ihering. Dissertation. Cologne 1972.
  • Self-awareness and outside determination. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1975, ISBN 3-472-61205-3 .
  • Readings. Poems, songs, ballads . Selected and commented by Ursula Krechel. Darmstadt, Neuwied (Luchterhand) 1982. (= Luchterhand Collection 346). Extended new edition under the title Readings: From the birth of the poem out of nowhere : Frankfurt / M. (Luchterhand) 1991 (= Luchterhand Collection 950).
  • Playing with the father's body. Essays. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-11716-5 .
  • Write in the future. Manual for anyone who wants to write . Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2003, ISBN 3-902144-66-1 .
  • Strong and quiet. Pioneers . Jung and Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-99027-071-4 .

Radio plays

  • 1975: two deaths . Production: RB / HR
  • 1975: Erika . Production: WDR
  • 1979: The removal of wishes on a bright day. Production RB / WDR
  • 1979: The parquet a reflecting lake. With Lisa Kreuzer (Marie), Ulrike Bliefert (Amalie), Susanne von Schaefer (Sophie), Suzanne von Borsody (Elise), Edith Heerdegen (Elise as an old woman) and others. a. Director: Bernd Lau , Production: BR / WDR
  • 1979: Thrown into the arms of art. Cantata for speaking voices and the 19th century . Production: SFB / BR / NDR
  • 1984: Blissfully hostile outlawed . Director: Ursula Krechel, production: NDR / SFB
  • 1986: The biscuit giant . Director: Ursula Krechel, Production: SFB
  • 1986: Leuk and Lachen or The Grammar of Exchange . Add. with Willem Capteyn. WDR / NCRV Hilversum
  • 1988: Stadtluftundliebe . Production: SWR / NDR
  • 1990: Sit, Stay, Go . Production: SWF
  • 1991: The flow of speech between the earrings . Production: SFB / SWR
  • 1991: Closer to the point . Production: NDR.
  • 1991: picture quake. In: Desert Storm . Production: BR / SR
  • 1995: Hello your ear. A cry for help . Production: SWF
  • 1995: In the ear room. With Christa Berndl (the woman), Rolf Schult (doctor Mortimer), Krista Posch (the clam-shaped nurse), Grete Wurm (the patient from the valley of sighs ) and others. a. Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann , Production: BR
  • 1997: The door slams forever . Production: NDR
  • 1998: Shanghai far from where . Two-part radio play with Katharina Palm (Fräulein Ling), Manfred Steffen (Mr. Tata), Donata Höffer (Fräulein Bamberger), Elisabeth Orth (Ms. Tausig), Hille Darjes (Ms. Kronheim), Rolf Schult (Mr. Rosenbaum), Johanna Liebeneiner , Helmut Vogel, Rosemarie Gerstenberg , Gerd Wameling , Anthony Gibbs. Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann , Production: SWF
  • 2003: Dear piece . Production: SWR
  • 2004: My voice swam with the fish. - Direction: Oliver Sturm and Nicole Paulsen; with Angela Winkler . Production: SWR
  • 2007: Night lights . Production: DLR
  • 2013: When you turn an isosceles triangle upside down. - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann , Production: SWR

translation

Release

Awards

Awarding of the Jean Paul Prize 2019 by the Bavarian Minister of State Bernd Sibler

literature

  • Beth Bjorklund: rough cut. Poem in sixty sequences. Ursula Krechel . In: World Literature Today. 58 (2): 261-261; University of Oklahoma Press, 1984.
  • Wilhelm Genazino : The position war of the normal. Laudation for Ursula Krechel on the award of the Rhineland-Palatinate Art Prize . In: Siegfried Gauch and others: Hidden in the limelight. Yearbook for literature. Frankfurt 2010.
  • Gabriele Heppner: Approaches - the representation of expulsion, persecution and extermination in the novels "The inventory" by Gila Lustiger; "Shanghai far from where" by Ursula Krechel. Klagenfurt, Alpen-Adria-Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 2013
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon. Volume 7, Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022049-0 , p. 35.
  • Ursula Mahlendorf: Second nature. Scenes from a novel. Ursula Krechel . In: World Literature Today. 56 (2): 327-327; University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.
  • Charlotte Melin: Improved Versions. Feminist Poetics and recent work by Ulla Hahn and Ursula Krechel . In: Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, Vol 21, Iss 1 (1997); New Prairie Press, 1997.
  • Ilse Picaper: She wanted to be a witness. To Ursula Krechel, regional court . In: GermanicaOpenAIRE. CeGes Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille-III, 2017-02-20 .; Germanica.
  • Ernestine Schlant: Sicilian of feeling. Ursula Krechel . In: World Literature Today. 68 (2): 362-362; University of Oklahoma, 1994.
  • Rita Terras: The assault. Ursula Krechel . In: World Literature Today. 76 (2): 200-200; University of Oklahoma, 2002.
  • Rita Terras: popular wonder. Ursula Krechel . In: World Literature Today. 70 (2): 394-395; University of Oklahoma, 1996.
  • Williams, Andrew: Voices from the hard core. Ursula Krechel . In: World Literature Today. Sept-Oct, 2006, Vol. 80 Issue 5, p. 73, 2 p .; University of Oklahoma.

Web links

Commons : Ursula Krechel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual references, sources

  1. ↑ USB Cologne: Entry on the dissertation. In: USB catalog. Retrieved January 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ursula Krechel. on the website of the authors' publishing house. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
  3. ↑ https://www.adk.de/de/akademie/sektionen/literatur/lösungen.htm?we_objectID=57151/
  4. ^ German Academy for Language and Poetry: Ursula Krechel is a new member. on: boersenblatt.net , November 28, 2012.
  5. ↑ Four female authors included , boersenblatt.net, July 7, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017
  6. ↑ http://www.adwmainz.de/lösungen/profil/dr-ursula-krechel.html
  7. ↑ The man who invented the house of literature , welt.de of March 19, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2019.
  8. ↑ Theater heute , Issue 8, 1974, pp. 37-46 (Ursula Krechel: When women work on a play about women , with a complete copy of the play)
  9. ↑ https://www.theatertexte.de/nav/2/2/3/werk?verlag_id=verlag_der_autoren&wid=320&ebex3=3
  10. ↑ Ursula Krechel receives the German Book Prize. In: Spiegel Online . October 8, 2012.
  11. ↑ Ursula Krechel receives the German Book Prize 2012 for her novel "Landgericht". ( Memento from December 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at: deutscher-buchpreis.de
  12. ↑ This story is passed on to the children
  13. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/2018/39/geisterbahn-ursula-krechel-rom
  14. ↑ Ursula Krechel receives the Wiesbaden Poetry Prize "Orphil". ( Memento of August 2, 2012 in the archive.today web archive ), accessed on April 25, 2012.
  15. ↑ Four female authors included , boersenblatt.net, July 7, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017.
  16. ↑ Ursula Krechel receives Jean Paul Prize. In: buchmarkt.de. November 11, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Krechel, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH trier