Ursula March
Ursula März (* 1957 in Herzogenaurach ) is a German literary critic and author .
Life
Ursula März went to school in Erlangen . She passed her Abitur there at the humanistic grammar school Friedericianum , where she “as a non-academic child in no way felt disadvantaged”, as she wrote in an essay about her first vacation on the North Sea. Her interest in literature was influenced by the literary scholar Hannelore Schlaffer , who during March's school days taught at times as a trainee teacher at the Friedericianum high school. As a teenager, March was a member of the KPD / ML school squad, from which she, according to her own statement, was “ thrown out because of reading Franz Kafka's novels ”.
March studied literature and philosophy in Cologne and Berlin . She completed a traineeship at the Hessisch-Niedersächsische Allgemeine in Kassel . March first worked as a writer for the radio . She wrote reports , features and radio plays . Since the beginning of the 1990s, März has worked as a literary critic and feature writer for the cultural magazine Kursbuch , for the Frankfurter Rundschau and for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT .
For the Frankfurter Rundschau she wrote a highly acclaimed literary portrait of the Swiss author Paul Nizon, who was almost forgotten at the time of publication . In 1999, März published the biographical essay You live like in a hotel about the photographer Ré Soupault .
March has been a jury member for the SWR best list since 2002 . From 2004 to 2008, March was also a juror at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . Ursula März is also a member of the jury for the Clemens Brentano Prize .
March's literary interest is mainly in contemporary German-language literature, in particular the work of Wolfgang Hilbig , Wilhelm Genazino , Thomas Hürlimann , Ralf Rothmann , Lutz Seiler and Uwe Tellkamp . In terms of literary theory , März dealt in her reviews and publications with the influences of feminism , with gender studies and the relationship between literary criticism and society.
March has received several awards for her work as a critic and journalist. In 1990 Ursula März received the prize for essay writing at the Klagenfurt journalism competition. In 2005 she was awarded the “Berlin Prize for Literary Criticism” for her “intelligence of interpretation and her comprehensive understanding of literature and the world in which it is created”.
In 2005 she was the laudator at the awarding of the Goethe Medal to the poet Yoko Tawada . In 2006, she gave the laudation at the award ceremony for the Max Frisch Prize to the German writer Ralf Rothmann in Zurich .
In March 2009, Verena Auffermann , Gunhild Kübler and Elke Schmitter published the literary anthology passion. 99 women authors of world literature . In short literary essays, März portrays 24 women writers from world literature , classifies their work in terms of literary history and draws connecting lines between different national literature. In it, März writes about Sappho , Nelly Sachs , Christa Wolf , Marguerite Yourcenar and Joanne K. Rowling, among others .
March also worked as a court columnist at the Moabit Criminal Court in Berlin . Her experiences as a viewer and journalist in numerous lawsuits found their literary expression in her volume of short stories, almost already criminal: stories from everyday life , published in August 2011 .
She wrote the novel Tante Martl about her godmother, who was born in Zweibrücken in 1925 .
März lives (as of 2011) in Berlin and has a daughter.
Awards
- 1991 Prize from Casinos Austria at the International Journalism Prize
- 2005 Berlin Prize for Literary Criticism
Book publications
- You live like in a hotel, the world of Ré Soupault . Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 978-3-88423-155-5
- with Verena Auffermann , Gunhild Kübler , Elke Schmitter : Passions. 99 women authors of world literature . Bertelsmann, Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-01048-8
- Almost criminal: stories from everyday life . Hanser, Munich, 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23749-0
- For one night or for life. Five dates . Hanser, Munich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24907-3
- Aunt Martl . Piper Verlag, Munich, 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-05981-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Ursula March in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ursula März: Feminism from the 70s is a thing of the past. Profile of Ursula März at www.single-generation.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula March: A girl goes bathing, in: Die Zeit No. 28, July 4, 2013, p. 53.
- ↑ Ursula March: A girl goes bathing, in: Die Zeit No. 28, July 4, 2013, p. 53.
- ↑ Portrait of Ursula March Die Welt from October 16, 2005
- ↑ Brief portrait of Ursula März on the SWR website, accessed on November 8, 2009
- ↑ Prize for Ursula March in: Hamburger Abendblatt from May 24, 2005
- ↑ Award of the Goethe Medal 2005 Press release by the Goethe Institute of February 18, 2005
- ↑ https://www.rbb-online.de/rbbkultur/radio/programm/schema/sendung/rbbkultur_am_nachmitt/archiv/20190829_1505/zu_gast_1610.html
- ↑ Ursula March: A girl goes bathing, in: Die Zeit No. 28, July 4, 2013, p. 54.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | March, Ursula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar, literary critic and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herzogenaurach |