Esther Dischereit
Esther Dischereit
Esther Dischereit, possibly the preeminent German-Jewish voice of the post-Shoah generation, was born in Heppenheim in 1952 and now lives in Berlin. She has published fiction, poetry, and essays, and is a prolific writer for radio and the stage. Her first novel, Joëmis Tisch, was published by Suhrkamp in 1988 and was followed by the novel Merryn (1992), two volumes of essays, several volumes of poetry and a collection of short stories. The founder of the avant-garde project WordMusic, Dischereit has also worked as a curator for various projects in contemporary art / new media. Her film A Dress from Warsaw – a co-production with director Mihal Otlowski – was shown at the Ashkelon Film-Festival »Jewish Eye« in 2008 and nominated for the Prix Genève in 2007. Dischereit was a Fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European and Jewish Studies and the DAAD Chair for Contemporary Poetics at New York University (2019) and...
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Esther Dischereit, possibly the preeminent German-Jewish voice of the post-Shoah generation, was born in Heppenheim in 1952 and now lives in Berlin. She has published fiction, poetry, and essays, and is a prolific writer for radio and the stage. Her first novel, Joëmis Tisch, was published by Suhrkamp in 1988 and was followed by the novel Merryn (1992), two volumes of essays, several volumes of poetry and a collection of short stories. The founder of the avant-garde project WordMusic, Dischereit has also worked as a curator for various projects in contemporary art / new media. Her film A Dress from Warsaw – a co-production with director Mihal Otlowski – was shown at the Ashkelon Film-Festival »Jewish Eye« in 2008 and nominated for the Prix Genève in 2007. Dischereit was a Fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European and Jewish Studies and the DAAD Chair for Contemporary Poetics at New York University (2019) and frequently gives lectures and appears at readings in the USA, Canada, the Middle East, the Americas and Europe. In 2009 she received Austria’s prestigious Erich Fried Prize for her writing.
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Alfred Gruber Preis 2024
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Year of Publication: 2007
Esther DischereitYear of Publication: 2007
The Morning the Paperboy
Even when they are absent and unfulfilled, they still control life, the body, the rhythm: passion and love. They are standing behind the door that a woman closes, are locked out like stray mutts. What remains is the individual, standing in the world as though she didn’t belong. One who marvels like children or strangers marvel. Phantasies of violence beset the woman in The Morning...
Year of Publication: 1998
Esther DischereitYear of Publication: 1998
Exercises in Being Jewish
This book deals with approaching being Jewish after the normality of origin, family, tradition and faith has been lost with the people killed in the genocide. How does one live a Jewish life in which one can no longer hum the melodies for the holidays? Some of the essays address the connections of Jewish issues with the moral system of human rights: How should we evaluate the treatment of the...
Year of Publication: 1988
Esther DischereitYear of Publication: 1988
Joëmi‘s Table
A woman acknowledges that she is Jewish, reluctantly and late in life. Thus begins Joëmi’s Table. This newly found and at once regained identity transports the mother’s shadows and the story of her persecution into the woman’s own present and past. The traces of the past catch up with her. And even when looking at other peoples, particularly the Arabic culture in Northern Africa,...