Gabriele Wohmann

Gabriele Wohmann
Gabriele Wohmann
	Gabriele Wohmann in 1992
Born	21 May 1932; Darmstadt, Germany
Died	22 June 2015 (aged 83); Darmstadt, Germany
Occupation	Novelist

Gabriele Wohmann (née Guyot; 21 May 1932 – 22 June 2015) was a German novelist, and short story writer.^[1]^[2]

Life

Wohmann was born in Darmstadt. She attended the Nordseepädagogium on the island Langeoog as a boarding school. She studied at Frankfurt am Main from 1951 to 1953. She then worked as a teacher at her former school to Langeoog, at a community college, and a business school. In 1953, she married Reiner Wohmann. She lived as a freelance writer in Darmstadt since 1956.^{[citation needed]} Wohmann died on June 23, 2015, after struggling for a long time with serious illness in the place of her birth, Darmstadt.^[3]

Career

Wohmann authored short stories, novels, poems, radio plays, television plays, and essays. She attended meetings of the Group 47. She was a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts since 1975, and the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt since 1980. She was a member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1960 to 1988.

Works

Jetzt und Nie, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1958
Abschied für länger, Walter, Olten/Freiburg im Breisgau, 1965
Ernste Absicht, Luchterhand Verlag, Berlin/Neuwied, 1970
Paulinchen war allein zu Haus, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1974
Schönes Gehege, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1975
Ausflug mit der Mutter, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1976
Frühherbst in Badenweiler, Luchterhand, Darmstadt, 1978
Ach wie gut daß niemand weiß, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1980
Das Glücksspiel, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1981
Der Flötenton, Luchterhand, Darmstadt/Neuwied, 1987
Bitte nicht sterben, Piper, München, 1993
Aber das war noch nicht das Schlimmste, Piper, München, 1995
Das Handicap, Piper, München, 1996
Das Hallenbad, Piper, München, 2000
Abschied von der Schwester, Pendo, Zürich/München, 2001
Schön und gut, Piper, München, 2002
Hol mich einfach ab, Piper, München, 2003

Works in English

Selected Translations of Gabriele Wohmann, Steven Walter Eau Claire, University of Iowa, 1984
A Sea Resort, Translator Steven W. Eau Claire, The Journal of Literary Translation, Volume XVI, Spring 1986 ISSN 0093-9307
The Piano Lesson, Translator Steven W. Eau Claire, The Amherst Review, Volume XIV, 1986
A Party in the Country, Translator Steve Eau Claire, The Antioch Review, Volume 45, Number 3, Summer 1987 ISSN 0003-5769
The cherry tree, Translator Jeanne Willson, Dimension, 1994, ISBN 978-0-911173-05-5
Amos Leslie Willson, ed. (1996). "An Irresistible Man". Contemporary German fiction. Continuum International. ISBN 978-0-8264-0740-5.

References

^ "Gabriele Wohmann. Kurzbiografie" (PDF). deutschstunde.info (in German). Retrieved 20 May 2023.
^ "Literatur - Goethe-Institut".
^ "Schriftstellerin Gabriele Wohmann ist tot". Zeit Online. 23 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.

External links

"So spannend ist das Leben nicht", Berliner Zeitung, Benoît Pivert, 18 May 2002
Günter Häntzschel, Gabriele Wohmann, Beck, 1982, ISBN 978-3-406-08691-5