Bärbel Reetz
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Bärbel Reetz
Bärbel Reetz, born in 1942, lives in Berlin. She has won several literary prizes for her works including the Bettina von Arnim Prize in 1994.
Bärbel Reetz, born in 1942, lives in Berlin. She has won several literary prizes for her works including the Bettina von Arnim Prize in 1994.
Awards (selection)
Hesse Prize 2021
Hesse Prize 2021
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2015
Bärbel ReetzYear of Publication: 2015
Paradise Was Ours
It all began in 1912 with a chance encounter: Hugo Ball, working for the Munich Kammerspiele, meets Emmy Hennings, eccentric diseuse, addicted to drugs, muse to important men, who has just published her first poems. The dazzling masque-actress, darling of the Bohemia in Munich and Berlin, and the rebellious poet, reeling between actionism and anarchism, find each other in times of war and...
Year of Publication: 2012
Bärbel ReetzYear of Publication: 2012
Hesse’s Wives
Hermann Hesse is one of the world’s most widely-read authors. His works, including such canonical fixtures as Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, sell more than one million copies each year. His books are...
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Spanish world rights (Circe), Korea (Jaeum&Moeum), Slovakia (Petrus)
Year of Publication: 2008
Bärbel ReetzYear of Publication: 2008
Lenin's Sisters
Lenin's Sisters is a tale of women on the move, passionately committed to the grand utopian schemes of their times – Socialism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis – and of their successes and failures in times of dramatic social upheaval.
Sofia marries Vladimir, and receives the blessings of the Czar as the daughter of his general. But the young girl doesn't love her...
Sofia marries Vladimir, and receives the blessings of the Czar as the daughter of his general. But the young girl doesn't love her...
Year of Publication: 2006
Bärbel ReetzYear of Publication: 2006
The Russian Patient
»I love him and I hate him.« The differences between C.G. Jung and his Russian patient Sabina Spielrein seem insurmountable; in desperation, she seeks help from Sigmund Freud. A drama from the early days of psychoanalysis that would have been long forgotten had not the accidental discovery of her diaries and letters in the mid-seventies made Spielrein a person of public interest....
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