Brigitte Struzyk (born April 2, 1946, in
Steinbach-Hallenberg
Steinbach-Hallenberg is a town in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated in the Thuringian Forest, 8 km east of Schmalkalden, and 13 km northwest of Suhl. The former municipalities Altersbach, Bermba ...
, Thuringia as Brigitte Kraft) is a German writer.
Life
Brigitte Struzyk is a daughter of the
musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...
Günther Kraft. She grew up in
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
, graduated from high school there in 1964 and then trained as an
agricultural technician. She then worked as a trainee at the
Zwickau Municipal Theatre. From 1965 to 1969, she studied
theater studies
Theatre studies (sometimes referred to as theatrology or dramatics) is the study of theatrical performance in relation to its literary, physical, psychobiological, sociological, and historical contexts. It is an interdisciplinary field which also e ...
at the
Theaterhochschule "Hans Otto" in Leipzig. After obtaining her diploma there, she worked as a
dramaturge
A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults auth ...
and
assistant director at the
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater in
Görlitz and
Zittau
Zittau ( hsb, Žitawa, dsb, Žytawa, pl, Żytawa, cs, Žitava, Upper Lusatian Dialect: ''Sitte''; from Slavic "'' rye''" (Upper Sorbian and Czech: ''žito'', Lower Sorbian: ''žyto'', Polish: ''żyto'')) is the southeasternmost city in the Ge ...
. From 1970 to 1982, she was a editor at
Aufbau-Verlag, initially in Weimar and from 1976 in
East Berlin, where she lived in the
Prenzlauer Berg
Prenzlauer Berg () is a locality of Berlin, forming the southerly and most urban district of the borough of Pankow. From its founding in 1920 until 2001, Prenzlauer Berg was a district of Berlin in its own right. However, that year it was incor ...
district and formed the ''Gruppe 46'' with female author friends of the same birth cohort, which existed until 1979. Brigitte Struzyk was a freelance writer from 1982 to 1990. After the
Wende, she was responsible for public relations as a personal
Referentin in the building department of the Berlin district
Pankow
Pankow () is the most populous and the second-largest borough by area of Berlin. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, it was merged with the former boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee; the resulting borough retained the name Pankow. ...
from 1990 to 1998. She has been a freelance writer again since 1998.
Brigitte Struzyk, who has been a member of the
PEN Center Germany since 1991, received the
Lion Feuchtwanger Prize in 1991, a
Honorary Gift of the German Schiller Foundation in 1992, 2001 a scholarship from the
Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, 2003 a scholarship from the
Künstlerhaus Edenkoben. In 2004 she was
Stadtschreiberin zu Rheinsberg.
Works
* 1978: ''Poesiealbum Brigitte Struzyk'', Berlin
* 1984: ''Leben auf der Kippe'', Berlin et al.
* 1988: ''Blindband'', Berlin
* 1988: ''Caroline unterm Freiheitsbaum'', Berlin et al.
* 1989: ''Der wild gewordene Tag'', Berlin et al.
* 1994: ''In vollen Zügen'', Berlin et al.
* 1995: ''Rittersporn''. Poems. With Katharina Kranichfeld (etchings).
Edition Mariannenpresse, Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-922510-83-3.
* 2001: ''Zugzwang'', Bamberg
* 2011: ''Das backsteinfressende Moos'', Berlin
* 2011: ''alles offen'', Hamburg
* 2012: ''Drachen über der Leninallee'', Hamburg
* 2019: ''was immer'', Schöneiche bei Berlin
As editor
* 1973:
Frank Wedekind
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (July 24, 1864 – March 9, 1918) was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the de ...
: ''Greife wacker nach der Sünde'', Berlin u. a. (edited together with Antonie Günther)
* 1975: ''Smoking braucht man nicht'', Berlin a. o. (edited together with Antonie Günther)
* 1978:
F. C. Weiskopf: ''Das Eilkamel. Reiseberichte'', Berlin et al.
* 1988:
Friedrich Wolf: ''Auf wieviel Pferden ich geritten ...'', Berlin et al. (edited together with Emmi Wolf)
* 1991:
Elke Erb
Elke Erb (born 18 February 1938) is a German author-poet based in Berlin. She has also worked as a literary editor and translator.
Biography Family provenance and early years
Elke Erb was born at Scherbach (today part of Rheinbach) in the hill ...
: ''Nachts, halb zwei, zu Hause'', Leipzig
* 1997: ''Was über dich erzählt wird'', Berlin (edited together with
Richard Pietraß)
* 2013: ''Fremde Heimat, Texte aus dem Exil'', Berlin (edited together with
Christa Schuenke)
Translations
* 2003:
Maruša Krese: ''Yorkshire-Tasche'', Klagenfurt u. a.
* 2010:
Sergei Yesenin: ''Anna Snegina'', Moscow a. a. (zwölfsprachige Auflage)
References
External links
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German women writers
Living people
1946 births