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Christine Brückner (10 December 1921, in Schmillinghausen, Bad Arolsen, Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont – 21 December 1996, in Kassel) was a German writer.[1][2] Her first novel, Before the Traces Disappear (Ehe die Spuren verwehen), was published in 1954.

Christine Brückner
Born(1921-12-10)10 December 1921
Bad Arolsen, Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont
Died21 December 1996(1996-12-21) (aged 75)
Kassel, Hesse
LanguageGerman
NationalityGerman
Notable worksBefore the Traces Disappear (Ehe die Spuren verwehen)
SpouseWerner Brückner
Otto Heinrich Kühner

Life


Christine Brückner, the daughter of pastor Carl Emde and his wife Clodtilde, was born in Schmillinghausen near Arolsen in the Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont where she lived until 1934 when she moved to Kassel. She attended high school in Arolsen and Kassel, completing her Abitur (high-school graduation) in 1941. During World War II, she was drafted for service in the General Command in Kassel, and then worked as a bookkeeper in an aircraft factory in Halle. After the war, she received a diploma as librarian in Stuttgart. She studied economics, literature, art history, and psychology in Marburg, where for two semesters she was director of the Mensa Academica. During that time, she wrote articles for the magazine Frauenwelt (Women's World) in Nuremberg. From 1948 to 1958, she was married to the industrial designer Werner Brückner (1920–1977). In 1960, she returned to Kassel, where, from 1967, she lived with her second husband and fellow writer Otto Heinrich Kühner (1921–1996), with whom she collaborated on several works.

From 1980 to 1984, she was Vice-President of the German PEN Center. She is an honorary citizen of the city of Kassel. Brückner died in 1996, ten weeks after her husband. The couple is buried in Schmillinghausen.

In 1984, they established the Brückner-Kühner Foundation. Since 1985, it has awarded the Kassel Literary Prize for "grotesque and comic work" at a high artistic level. The Foundation, now located in the house in which Christine Brückner and her husband lived, serves as a center for comic literature. It is now a small museum.


Major works


Christine Brückner's work focused on the fundamental conflicts between humans, particularly from a woman's perspective, while reflecting the author's Protestant worldview.

Brückner's first novel, Before the Traces Disappear (Ehe die Spuren verwehen, Gütersloh, 1954), allowed her to make a living as a freelance writer. The manuscript won a competition run by the publisher Bertelsmann. In its first year it sold 376 thousand copies,[citation needed] and has since been translated into several languages. It tells the story of a man who is involved in the accidental death of a young woman, and his existential crisis which follows.

She then published a number of other novels, which focus mainly on the topics of love, marriage and relationships from a woman's perspective, and on the possibilities for female self-realization. In 1975, she appeared in Manure and Stock (Ffm / Bln.), followed by its sequels, Nowhere is Poenichen (Ffm / Bln. 1977) and The Quints (Ffm / Bln. 1985), which formed the so-called Poenichen trilogy. Almost 1000 pages long, it tells the life story of Maximiliane Quint, born in 1918, the granddaughter of an aristocratic landowner in Pomerania. In 1977 and 1978 Manure and Stock and Nowhere is Poenichen were filmed as a mini-series for television, featuring actors Ulrike Bliefert, Arno Assmann and Edda Seippel in leading roles.

The monologues Desdemona - if you had only spoken. Eleven uncensored speeches of eleven incensed women (in German, Hamburg, 1983, translated by Eleanor Bron, Virago Press, London, 1992) not only achieved widespread success and were translated into many languages, but also established Brückner as a playwright, as they were among the most performed plays at the time.[citation needed] In tones from serious to cheerful, the work deals with historical and fictional female figures of Western cultural history, ranging from Clytemnestra to Christiane von Goethe to Gudrun Ensslin. In addition to novels and stories, Brückner also published autobiographical works, plays and children's books. Ullstein has published a 20-volume collection of the author's works.


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References


  1. "Christine Brückner". Verlagsgruppe Random House.
  2. "Christine Brückner". Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2011.



На других языках

- [en] Christine Brückner

[ru] Брюкнер, Кристина

Кристина Брюкнер (нем. Christine Brückner, 10 декабря 1921 года, Шмиллинггаузен, Гессен — 21 декабря 1996 года, Кассель) — немецкий писатель. Её псевдонимы: Кристин Дюпон, Кристиан Дюпон, доктор Кристиан Ксадоу .


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