Barbara Honigmann

Barbara Honigmann (born 12 February 1949 in Berlin) is a German author and artist.

Barbara Honigmann is the daughter of German-Jewish emigrants, who returned to East Berlin in 1947 after a period of exile in Great Britain. Her mother, Litzi Friedman, was the first wife of Kim Philby and her father, Georg Honigmann, was the chief editor of the "Berliner Zeitung". From 1967 to 1972, she studied theatre at Humboldt University in East Berlin.

In the following years she worked as a dramatist and director in Brandenburg and Berlin. She has been a freelance writer since 1975. In 1984, she left the GDR and currently lives with her family in Strasbourg.

According to Emily Jeremiah from The Institute of Modern Languages Research, "Honigmann’s texts are also paradigmatic of post-exile writings by German-Jewish authors. In addition, they offer examples of literary reactions to the demise of the GDR by its decamped intellectuals, and represent the articulations of a new generation of women writers" [1]

Awards

Works

  • Das singende, springende Löweneckerchen, Berlin 1979
  • Der Schneider von Ulm, Berlin 1981
  • Don Juan, Berlin 1981
  • Roman von einem Kinde, Darmstadt [u.a.] 1986 ISBN 3-423-12893-3
  • Eine Liebe aus nichts, Reinbek: Rowohlt 1991 ISBN 3-499-13245-1
  • Soharas Reise, Berlin 1996 ISBN 3-499-22495-X
  • Am Sonntag spielt der Rabbi Fußball, Heidelberg: Wunderhorn 1998 ISBN 3-88423-134-0
  • Damals, dann und danach, München: Hanser 1999 ISBN 3-446-19668-4
  • Alles, alles Liebe!, Munich: dtv 2000 ISBN 3-423-13135-7
  • Ein Kapitel aus meinem Leben, Munich: Hanser 2004 ISBN 3-446-20531-4
  • Das Gesicht wiederfinden. Über Schreiben, Schriftsteller und Judentum, Munich: Hanser 2006 ISBN 3-446-20681-7 & ISBN 978-3-446-20681-6
  • Blick übers Tal. Zu Fotos von Arnold Zwahlen Basel/Weil am Rhein: Engeler 2007, ISBN 978-3-938767-38-2
  • Das überirdische Licht: Rückkehr nach New York, Munich: Hanser 2008 ISBN 3-446-23085-8 & ISBN 978-3-446-23085-9
  • Bilder von A., Munich: Hanser 2011 ISBN 3-446-23742-9 & ISBN 978-3-446-23742-1
  • Chronik meiner Straße, Munich: Hanser 2015 ISBN 3-446-24762-9 & ISBN 978-3-446-24762-8

Translations

  • Lev Ustinov: Die Holz-Eisenbahn, Berlin 1979 (with Nelly Drechsler)
  • Anna Akhmatova: Vor den Fenstern Frost, Berlin 1988 (with Fritz Mierau)

References

  1. ↑ Jeremiah, Emily. "Barbara Honigmann". Modern Languages. The Institute of Modern Languages Research. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
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