Gabriele Wohmann Explained

Gabriele Wohmann
Birth Date:	21 May 1932
Birth Place:	Darmstadt, Germany
Death Place:	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. 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
• 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
• The cherry tree, Translator Jeanne Willson, Dimension, 1994,
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=Z402j8U36osC&pg=PA221 . An Irresistible Man. Contemporary German fiction. Amos Leslie Willson . Continuum International. 1996. 978-0-8264-0740-5.

External links

• "So spannend ist das Leben nicht", Berliner Zeitung, Benoît Pivert, 18 May 2002
• Günter Häntzschel, Gabriele Wohmann, Beck, 1982,

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gabriele Wohmann. Kurzbiografie. de. deutschstunde.info. 20 May 2023.
2. Web site: Literatur - Goethe-Institut.
3. News: Schriftstellerin Gabriele Wohmann ist tot. 23 June 2015. Zeit Online. 23 June 2015.