Marie-Luise Scherer Explained

Marie-Luise Scherer
Birth Date:	1938 10, df=y
Birth Place:	Saarbrücken, Gau Saar-Palatinate, Germany
Nationality:	German
Occupation:	Writer Journalist

Marie-Luise Scherer (15 October 1938 – 17 December 2022) was a German writer and journalist.

Biography

Scherer began her career as a reporter for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and later wrote for Berliner Morgenpost and Die Zeit. She was a journalist at Der Spiegel from 1974 to 1998, where she became known for her literary reports. More recently, she wrote autobiographical pieces for Sinn und Form, a bimonthly literature journal of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.^[1]

In her writing, Scherer wrote a form she characterized as "syllable work", explaining that "two good sentences in one day are lucky".^[2] For more than 20 years, she wrote a maximum of two reports a year for Der Spiegel.^[3]

In 2012, Scherer received the for literature.^[4] Her works have been translated into French, Italian, and Spanish. She lived in Damnatz^[5] and died on 17 December 2022, at the age of 84.^[6]

Awards

• Theodor Wolff Prize (1970)
• Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for Der Zustand, eine hilflose Person zu sein (1977)
• Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for Auf deutsch gesagt: gestrauchelt (1979)
• (1989)
• Ludwig Börne Prize (1994)
• Italo-Svevo-Preis (2008)
• Heinrich Mann Prize (2011)
• Kunstpreis des Saarlandes (2012)
• (with Stefan Chwin, 2015)
• Member of the (2015)^[7]

Works

• Ungeheurer Alltag. Geschichten und Reportagen (1988)
• Der Akkordeonspieler. Wahre Geschichten aus vier Jahrzehnten (2004)
• Die Bestie von Paris und andere Geschichten (2012)^[8]
• Die Hundegrenze (2013)
• Unter jeder Lampe gab es Tanz (2014)
• Der Akkordeonspieler (2017)

Notes and References

1. News: Winkler. Willi. 19 December 2022. Geschenk an die Sprache. German. Süddeutsche Zeitung. 19 December 2022.
2. News: Pohle. Julia. 10 December 2004. Silbe um Silbe wächst der Text. German. Die Welt. 19 December 2022.
3. News: Teutsch. Katharina. 18 December 2022. Die Radikale. German. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 19 December 2022.
4. News: 22 March 2012. Kunstpreis des Saarlandes an Marie-Luise Scherer. German. Saarbrücker Zeitung.
5. Web site: Marie-Luise Scherer. Academy of Arts, Berlin. German.
6. News: 18 December 2022. Frühere SPIEGEL-Reporterin Marie-Luise Scherer gestorben. German. Der Spiegel. 19 December 2022.
7. News: 1 July 2015. Neue Mitglieder der Akademie der Künste. German. Academy of Arts, Berlin. 19 December 2022.
8. News: Böttiger. Helmut. 10 December 2012. Paris ganz nüchtern – und grausam. German. Deutschlandfunk Kultur. 19 December 2022.