Ute Bales

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Ute Bales (born April 7, 1961 in Borler ) is a German writer.

Life

Bales grew up in Gerolstein , where he attended St. Matthias Gymnasium. After graduating from high school, she studied German, political science and art in Giessen and Freiburg . After her exams, she worked for many years in the field of public relations for tourism companies.

Ute Bales lives in Freiburg im Breisgau, is married and has a daughter.

She is a member of the Literaturwerk Rheinland-Pfalz-Saar eV , the Literary Association of the Palatinate , the artist group SternwARTe Vulkaneifel eV Daun . She also belongs to the association for the promotion of artistic activity eV Weißenseifen / Eifel .

Works

Her literary work focuses on novels. In her first and follow-up novel, landscape and people are inextricably linked. The characteristic of the Eifel landscape and its inhabitants is the starting point of a narrative style which, in concise psychological studies, shows people as "lonely, lost, in a misunderstood space" in and with their suffering. The protagonists experience themselves on apparently senseless and diffuse paths, steadily striving towards a point of catastrophe, but in complete freedom and grandeur. (Verlag Pi, Weißenseifen )

In her debut novel Der Boden Dunkel , published in 2006, Ute Bales describes the unusual and fateful story of the dreamer Klaus Henkes against the backdrop of an Eifel village in the Kylltal after the US troops moved in at the end of the Second World War . In 2018 a revised new edition appeared under the title America is Far .

The second novel Kamillenblumen (2008) tells the story of a peddler who got onto the street in the spring of 1901. The basis of the novel is the life of Gertrud Feiler from Kolverath , who traveled through the Eifel as a “camomile flower seller” in the first half of the last century. The life of the Kolverather Traud became part of the project "Geschichtserlebnisregion" of the association community Kelberg , for which Bales took over a sponsorship.

The novel Peter Zirbes (2010) is based on the story of the first Eifel poet and simultaneously wandering porcelain dealer Peter Zirbes .

Under the big sky (Subtitle: Pitt Kreuzberg - Story of an Unwavering) (2012) traces the biography of the painter Pitt Kreuzberg from Ahrweiler , who was unswervingly and passionately dedicated to art.

The novel Großes Ey (2014) describes the life and work of the legendary Düsseldorf gallery owner Johanna Ey .

The background to the novel The World Smashed , published in early 2016, is the life story of Cologne-based DADA artist Angelika Hoerle . The Italian-Canadian composer Ennio A. Paola composed a piece of music for the work in 2015: Comets & Shadows "- Sound Signature for projects on the brief life & times of Dada of Cologne artist Angelika Hoerle , which was given to readings by the author in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral (Bad Ems), in the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), in Simonskall . In January 2019 the piece was premiered in a version for a string quartet.

At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018, the birds' requests were presented in winter . The novel tells of the persecution of the Sinti and Roma and of Eva Justin , one of the most famous “racial researchers” during the Nazi era . Eva Justin was convinced of the idea of ​​a “clean people” and, with her pseudoscientific work, made a significant contribution to the murder, humiliation and mutilation of thousands of Sinti and Roma. In an interview, the author explains why she wrote from the perpetrator's perspective and not, as so often, from the victim's perspective. She sees no danger that, in view of the horrific deeds described and actually carried out, as a result of the ideologically deluded behavior, the perpetrators could be "glorified": " ... Art has to reach its limits. It can also make you perplexed, because then it stimulates thinking ... "and" ... Our culture has been accumulating racist patterns of discrimination for centuries. This enables us to despise others. This is currently particularly the case for minorities such as Jews, Sinti and Roma ... ".

Prices

In 2010, Bales received the special prize in the Book of the Year competition (Rhineland-Palatinate) for the novel Peter Zirbes .

In 2014 she reached the final of the Rheinisches Literaturpreis Siegburg with Peter Zirbes

In 2018, Bales was awarded a Martha Saalfeld Prize from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for the book project Bitten der Vögel im Winter . Students from the University of Koblenz-Landau created a film project for the book on the occasion of the award ceremony.

In 2019, Bitten der Vögel was nominated for the main prize of the Palatinate Prize for literature in winter .

bibliography

Novels

Short stories and essays

  • Point between heaven and earth . In: Sigfrid Gauch , Michael Au, Volkhard Brandes (eds.): Beyond the end (=  yearbook for literature ). tape 17 . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt / M. 2011, ISBN 978-3-86099-885-4 .
  • Point between heaven and earth . In: Oskar Lautwein, Christa and Winfried Schneider, Walter Feltes, Erich Gerten (eds.): I am a traveling singer, complete works of the first Eifel poet Peter Zirbes . Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land, Wittlich 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-040145-9 .
  • Peter Zirbes . In: Monika Böss, Gabriele Keizer (Hrsg.): SchreibOrte - where literature is created . Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, Zell / Mosel 2013, ISBN 978-3-89801-825-8 .
  • The man in the brook . In: Mario Reis (Ed.): Naturaquarelle Kreis Euskirchen . KunstForumEifel, Schleiden-Gemünd 2015 ( blurb.de [accessed on June 22, 2018]).
  • The Man in the Stream . In: Mario Reis (Ed.): Natural Watercolors Eifel Project . 2015 ( blurb.de [accessed June 22, 2018]).
  • Class picture 1980 . In: Decision - cultural magazine in Europe . No. 103 , 2015, p. 23 .
  • A disrespect . In: The Prümer Landbote, magazine of the Prümer Land history association . tape 124 , no. 1 , 2015.
  • About "Gifts & Gifts II", new poems, etc. Prose by Jochen Arlt . Blickpunkt, Euskirchen 2016.
  • Arrival in Borler . In: Manfred Lang u. Ralf Kramp (ed.): The Eifel - the best, a reading book from the rough land of the gentle people (=  Edition Eyfalia ). KBV, Hillesheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-95441-329-4 .
  • Flashback / flashback . In: Anneliese Fikentscher u. a. (Ed.): The crocodile, basic writing about the freedom of thought . tape 24 . Cologne March 2018 ( das-krokodil.com ).
  • A bath in the wintry Kyll . In: Joseph Groben (ed.): The silent valley of the Kyll . Verlag Michael Weyand, Trier 2018, ISBN 978-3-942429-99-3 .

literature

  • Astrid Schmitz: A literary study on: Chamomile flowers by Ute Bales . Institute for German Studies, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz 2009 ( ute-bales.de [PDF; accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  • Jochen Arlt: Load and effort and scream or the inner necessity of the artist, to: Ute Bales: Under the Great Sky . In: Heimatjahrbuch Ahrweiler . Ahrweiler 2012, p. 156–161 ( online archive of the homeland yearbooks [PDF; accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  • Michael Dillinger: Story of an Unfinished, to: Ute Bales: Die Welt smashed . In: Chaussee, magazine for literature and culture in the Palatinate . No. 37 , 2016, ISSN  1436-1442 .
  • Stuart Foxman: "Connecting Across Time and Space" - a contribution to the composer Ennio A. Paola, cooperation with Ute Bales and the piece that he has broken up for the novel "The world is written!" . In: Renaissance . Spring 2017 edition. Ontario, Canada.
  • Klaus Hansen: Review of: Ute Bales: Bitten der Vogel im Winter . socialnet reviews, November 12, 2018, ISSN  2190-9245 ( socialnet.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Authors at Verlag Pi Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ Message Trierischer Volksfreund from January 28, 2018 Retrieved May 22, 2020
  3. ↑ Sound file Retrieved May 22, 2020
  4. ↑ The composer's blog.Retrieved May 22, 2020
  5. ↑ Sabine Ganz: Not thinking is the calamity of the world . In: Trierischer Volksfreund . November 20, 2018 ( non-thinking is the calamity of the world interview and book review [PDF; accessed on November 22, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Announcement Literaturwerk Retrieved May 22, 2020
  7. ↑ Report on Kulturland.rlp Accessed May 22, 2020
  8. ↑ Video on Youtube [1]
  9. ↑ Publishing Communication Accessed May 22, 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Bales, Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Borler