Xu Pei
Xu Pei ( Chinese 徐沛 , Pinyin Xú Pèi ; * 1966 in Kangding , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese writer , poet and activist for human rights . She has lived in exile in Germany since the late 1980s and is now a German citizen.
Life
Xu Pei's parents, who are loyal to the communist regime, and their four brothers live in China , where Xu grew up with her family. It was only later in Germany that Xu Pei learned from the Dalai Lama that her place of birth, Kangding, was in Tibet . From 1983 to 1987 she studied German at the Sichuan Foreign Language University , the Sichuan International Studies University . Then she worked as a tour guide for German visitor groups.
Pei came to Germany at the end of 1988 and studied German literature and philosophy at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf from 1989 to 1992 . In 1996 she did her doctorate there in German.
It began to publish in both Chinese and German after the Beijing massacre on June 4, 1989 . Her volumes of poetry have been illustrated by well-known German artists such as Jörg Immendorff ( Monkey King ), Georg Baselitz ( Lotus Feet ) and Markus Lüpertz ( The Duke rides daily ).
Xu received several grants, including work grants for literature from the city of Düsseldorf (1991) and from the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia (1993) as well as a Heinrich Heine grant in Lüneburg (2000).
Since 2002 she has been campaigning for people and groups persecuted in China in numerous articles, speeches, publications in print media, radio and television reports and especially on the Internet. Among other things, she is committed to the new religious movement Falun Gong , her arrested fellow writers such as Huang Jinqiu ( 黄金秋 ) and Zhang Lin ( 张林 ) and the Tibetans . According to her own statements, she does not want to return to China before the Chinese communist government collapses.
Critics described the human rights activist as a "political activist" because she used spectacular acts to draw attention to human rights violations in the People's Republic of China . One example of this is her protest against this state as the host country at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2009, when she was in a cage at the stand of the Society for Threatened Peoples .
Xu Pei has been a German citizen since 2004. She lives and works in Cologne .
Works
- German-language publications
- The Duke rides out every day. With illustrations by Markus Lüpertz . Grupello, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-928234-10-2 .
- Romantic images of women. Sophie Mereau-Brentano, Karoline von Günderrode, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Clemens Brentano, Joseph von Eichendorff, Heinrich Heine. Grupello, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-928234-57-9 . (At the same time: Düsseldorf, Univ., Diss., 1996).
- Lotus feet. Poems. With etchings by Georg Baselitz . Grupello, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-933749-43-3 .
- Monkey king. Etchings by Jörg Immendorff . Grupello, Düsseldorf 2002.
- Snow woman. Poems. With etchings by Per Kirkeby . Grupello, Düsseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-89978-005-1 .
- Celestial eye. Poems. Ed. XIM Virgines, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-934268-55-5 .
- The long way of the girl Hong. Ch. Schroer, Lindlar 2013, ISBN 978-3-95445-015-2 .
Film documents
Web links
- Literature by and about Xu Pei in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Xu Pei
Individual evidence
- ↑ See WDR report on Xu Pei by Martin Blachmann from June 22, 2008 (see film documents).
- ↑ Grenzgänger ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), article by Xu Pei on their homepage (last accessed: June 4, 2009).
- ↑ a b c See information about Xu Pei in the Bremer Weser-Kurier of June 4, 2009, p. 12.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Xu Pei |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 徐沛 (Chinese); Xú Pèi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Chinese writer, poet and political activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kangding , China |