Anne Birk
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Anne Birk (* August 20 1942 in Trossingen
, Germany
; † July 29 2009 in Esslingen, Germany
) was a German author.
, Germany
. She then studied German and English language and literature and became a grammar school teacher in Esslingen, where she lived from 1969 onwards. Around 1980 she began writing. Anne Birk used the maiden name of her mother as her nom de plume.
Her husband Gerold Tietz
was also an author. The couple was childless. Gerold Tietz
died just a few days before his wife.
on German history: Astern im Frost (1999), Weiße Flecken an der Wand (2000) and Scherbengericht (2002). Partly basing the novels on the life of her mother, Anne Birk is one of the very few German authors dealing critically with the German history of the 20th century from a very personal family and village perspective, not just from a global perspective of the entire nation.
Anne Birk also wrote the novel Carlos oder Vorgesehene Verheerungen in unseren blühenden Provinzen. The novel Kein Wunder could not be published any more before her death.
Besides these novels Anne Birk wrote the theater play Nestbeschmutzung, and she published Zumutungen - Frauen und ein Paragraph, a book on the obligatory advice before abortion established by German legislation around 1990 (so called "§218").
Anne Birk further wrote a number of narrations: Der Ministerpräsident, Bernies Bergung, Das nächste Mal bringe ich Rosen oder Warum Descartes sich weigert, seine Mutter zu baden as well as Examen 68. The latter dealt with the students' life in the famous German university town of Tübingen
during the 1960s.
Trossingen
Trossingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in a region called Baar, between the Swabian Alb and the Black Forest. Stuttgart is about an hour away, Lake Constance about half an hour, and the source of the river Danube can be reached in about twenty minutes by car.Trossingen...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
; † July 29 2009 in Esslingen, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
) was a German author.
Biography
Rosemarie Schumacher was the daughter of a school teacher. She grew up in TuttlingenTuttlingen
Tuttlingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, capital of the district Tuttlingen. Nendingen, Möhringen and Eßlingen are three former municipalities that belong to Tuttlingen...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. She then studied German and English language and literature and became a grammar school teacher in Esslingen, where she lived from 1969 onwards. Around 1980 she began writing. Anne Birk used the maiden name of her mother as her nom de plume.
Her husband Gerold Tietz
Gerold Tietz
Gerold Tietz was a German author.- Biography :Gerold Tietz was born in Bohemia. As a child he and his family were banished. They first moved to the federal state of Bavaria in Germany, and later to Baden-Württemberg. He studied history, politics and French in Tübingen, Berlin and Paris...
was also an author. The couple was childless. Gerold Tietz
Gerold Tietz
Gerold Tietz was a German author.- Biography :Gerold Tietz was born in Bohemia. As a child he and his family were banished. They first moved to the federal state of Bavaria in Germany, and later to Baden-Württemberg. He studied history, politics and French in Tübingen, Berlin and Paris...
died just a few days before his wife.
Works
Anne Birk wrote a trilogyTrilogy
A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games...
on German history: Astern im Frost (1999), Weiße Flecken an der Wand (2000) and Scherbengericht (2002). Partly basing the novels on the life of her mother, Anne Birk is one of the very few German authors dealing critically with the German history of the 20th century from a very personal family and village perspective, not just from a global perspective of the entire nation.
Anne Birk also wrote the novel Carlos oder Vorgesehene Verheerungen in unseren blühenden Provinzen. The novel Kein Wunder could not be published any more before her death.
Besides these novels Anne Birk wrote the theater play Nestbeschmutzung, and she published Zumutungen - Frauen und ein Paragraph, a book on the obligatory advice before abortion established by German legislation around 1990 (so called "§218").
Anne Birk further wrote a number of narrations: Der Ministerpräsident, Bernies Bergung, Das nächste Mal bringe ich Rosen oder Warum Descartes sich weigert, seine Mutter zu baden as well as Examen 68. The latter dealt with the students' life in the famous German university town of Tübingen
Tübingen
Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...
during the 1960s.