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Christine Brückner (December 10, 1921 Schmillinghausen, Bad Arolsen, Hesse - December 21, 1996 Kassel) was a German writer.[1] [2]
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Life
Christine Brückner was the daughter of the pastor Carl Emde and his wife Clotilde was born in Schmillinghausen at Arolsen, where they also spent up to her move to Kassel in 1934 their childhood. She attended high school in Arolsen and Kassel (Abitur 1941). During the war years, she was drafted to include a General Command in Kassel, and as a bookkeeper in an aircraft factory in Halle. After the war, she put her exam in Stuttgart as a graduate librarian. She studied economics, literature, art history and psychology in Marburg, directed there for two semesters, the Mensa Academica and wrote for the magazine "Woman World" in Nuremberg. From 1948 to 1958, she was married to the industrial designer Werner Bruckner (1920-1977). Beginning in 1960, she lived in Kassel, in 1967 with her second husband and fellow writer Otto Heinrich Kühner (1921-1996), with whom she wrote several common works.
From 1980 to 1984, she was Vice-President of the German PEN Center. Christine Brückner is an honorary citizen of the city of Kassel. She died in 1996, ten weeks after her husband; the couple is buried in Schmillinghausen. In 1984, they founded the Foundation Brückner-Kühner, which since 1985 has awaded the Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor. The Foundation operates today as a center for comic literature, and now the headquarters of the Foundation and a small museum that can be visited by appointment.
Major works
Christine Brückner is one of the most successful women writers of the Federal Republic of Germany. Many of her books reached millions. This is often with negative connotations assigned label of popular literature. Rather, meaning, morality, and even consolation in the thoroughly entertaining and elementary treatment of human subjects, particularly from the perspective of women's key concerns. They are based in the Protestant world view of the author.
The very first novel, blow away the traces of marriage (Gütersloh, 1954) was a great success, which allowed the existence of a freelance writer. The manuscript won a competition "Initiated" by Bertelsmann, scored in the first year with a circulation of 376 thousand and has been translated into several languages. It tells the management of life crisis of a man, who is involved in the accidental death of a young woman.
Then Brueckner published a number of other novels, which focus mainly from the perspective of women's issues of love, marriage and relationships through play and opportunities of female self-realization. In 1975, also appeared to her very successful novel manure and stocks (Ffm / Bln.), which with its sequels, Nowhere is Poenichen (Ffm / Bln. 1977) and The Quint (Ffm / Bln. 1985 ) to the so-called trilogy Poenichen. At nearly 1000 pages in a clear style they tells the life story of the Maximiliane Quindt, which in 1918 was the granddaughter of a land-aristocratic landowner in Pomerania. The very success of the first two volumes can be explained by the others, that are made here in reverting to familiar narrative schemas history and performance of the generation of women who had to prove themselves under the conditions of war, displacement and reconstruction. In the years 1977 and 1978, were manure and stocks, and Nowhere is Poenichen, each was filmed as a miniseries for television. The main characters were, among others Bliefert Ulrike, Arno Assmann and Edda Seippel. This has also contributed significantly to the popularity.
The monologues "If you had spoken, Desdemona indignant speeches indignant women." (Hbg 1983) not only achieve similarly high requirements and learn translations into many languages, they also establish her success as a playwright, because they are among the most performed contemporary plays. In a cheerful tone to serious talk here of historical and fictional female figures of Western cultural history, from Clytemnestra about Christiane von Goethe to Gudrun Ensslin, are properly made. In addition to their narrative work, the author also published autobiographical records, plays and children's books. Ullstein is publishing a 20-volume book edition.
Awards and honors
- 1954 Bertelsmann Prize contest for Marriage blow away the traces
- 1982 Goethe Medal of the State of Hesse
- 1987 Honorary Citizen of the city of Kassel
- 1990 Hessian Order of Merit
- 1991 Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class
- 1996 Grand Federal Cross of Merit
Works
Works in English
- Flight of cranes, Fromm International Pub. Corp., 1982, ISBN 9780880640015
- Gillyflower kid: a novel, Fromm International Pub. Corp., 1982, ISBN 9780880640060
- The time of the Leonids, Charles River Books, 1981, ISBN 9780891820406
Stories and novels
- Ehe die Spuren verwehen, 1954 (Before blow away the traces)
- Katharina und der Zaungast, 1957 (Catherine and the onlooker)
- Ein Frühling im Tessin, 1960 (A Spring in Ticino)
- Die Zeit danach, 1961 (The aftermath)
- Bella Vista und andere Erzählungen, 1963 (Bella Vista and Other Stories)
- Letztes Jahr auf Ischia, (Last year at Ischia) Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt/Berlin/Wien 1964 ISBN 3548027342
- Der Kokon, 1966 (The cocoon)
- Das glückliche Buch der a.p., 1970 (The Happy Book of ap)
- Überlebensgeschichten, 1973 (Survival Stories)
- Jauche und Levkojen, 1975 (Urine and wallflowers)
- Die Mädchen aus meiner Klasse, 1975 (The girls in my class)
- Nirgendwo ist Poenichen, 1977 (Nowhere is Poenichen)
- Was ist schon ein Jahr. Frühe Erzählungen, 1984 (What's a year. Early Stories)
- Das eine sein, das andere lieben, 1981 (Be the one, the other love)
- Die Quints, Ullstein, 1985, ISBN 9783550063978 (The Quints)
- Die letzte Strophe, 1989 (The last stanza)
- Früher oder später, 1994 (Sooner or later)
Child and Youth Books
- Alexander der Kleine. Eine heitere Erzählung, (Alexander the Little. An amusing story) 1966
- A brother for Momoko. London: The Bodley Head 1970 (dt.: Ein Bruder für Momoko, 1981)
- Wie Sommer und Winter, (As Summer and Winter) 1971
- Momoko und Chibi, (Momoko and Chibi) 1974
- Die Weltreise der Ameise, (The world tour of the ant) 1974
- Momoko ist krank, (Momoko is sick) 1979
- Mal mir ein Haus with Otto Heinrich Kühner, (Time for me a home) 1980
- Momoko und der Vogel, (Momoko and Bird) 1982
Publishing activities
- Botschaften der Liebe in deutschen Gedichten des 20. Jahrhunderts, (Messages of love in German poems of the 20th Century) 1960.
- An mein Kind. Deutsche Gedichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, (To my child. German poems of the 20th Century) 1962
- Juist. Ein Lesebuch, (Juist. A reader) 1984
- Lesezeit. Eine persönliche Anthologie, (Reading time. A personal anthology) 1986
Literature
- About Christine Brückner. Essays, reviews, interviews, ed. Gunther v. Tietz. Second Ed Frankfurt include: Ullstein 1990th (=Ullstein book; 22 173) ISBN 3548221734
- Margarita Jacobaeus: "To read recommended." Readings of Christine Brückner Poenichen trilogy. A reception-aesthetic study. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell Internat. 1995th (Stockholm Germanistic research; 51) ISBN 9122016716
- Karin Muller: "Life sometimes stays close to the literature." The archetypes in the Poenichen novels Christine Brückner. Glienicke / Berlin etc.: Galda and Wilch 2000th ISBN 3931397262
- Elvira Pachura: Poland - the lost homeland. For the problem at home Horst Bienek, Leonie Ossowski, Christa Wolf, Christine Brückner. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag. 2002nd ISBN 389821205X
- Pawel Zimniak: The lost time in the lost empire. Christine Brückner's family saga and Leonie Ossovsky family chronicle. Zielona Góra: Wydaw. Wyzszej szkoły pedagog. 1996th ISBN 8386832134
- Christine Brückner and Otto Heinrich Kühner. "The only workable Author Association", ed. v. Frederick W. Block. Kassel: euregio publisher 2007th ISBN 9783933617316
References
External links
Categories:- 1921 births
- 1996 deaths
- German novelists
- People from Bad Arolsen
- People from Kassel
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