Christine Brückner
| Christine Brückner | |
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| Born |
December 10, 1921 Bad Arolsen, Hesse |
| Died | December 21, 1996 (aged 75) Kassel |
| Language | German |
| Nationality | German |
| Notable works | Before the Traces Disappear (Ehe die Spuren vergehen) |
| Spouse |
Werner Brückner Otto Heinrich Kühner |
Christine Brückner (10 December 1921 Schmillinghausen, Bad Arolsen, Hesse – 21 December 1996 Kassel) was a German writer.
Christine Brückner was born in Schmillinghausen near Arolsen in Hesse, Germany, the daughter of the pastor Carl Emde and his wife Clotilde. She lived there until 1934 when she moved to Kassel. She attended high school in Arolsen and Kassel, completing her Abitur (highschool graduation) in 1941. During the war years, she was drafted for service in the General Command in Kassel, and then as a bookkeeper in an aircraft factory in Halle. After the war, she received a diploma as librarian in Stuttgart. She studied economics, literature, art history and psychology in Marburg, where for two semesters she was director of the Mensa Academica. During that time, she wrote articles for the magazine Frauenwelt (Women's World) in Nuremberg. From 1948 to 1958, she was married to the industrial designer Werner Brückner (1920–1977). In 1960 she returned to Kassel, where, from 1967, she lived with her second husband and fellow writer Otto Heinrich Kühner (1921–1996), with whom she collaborated on several works.
From 1980 to 1984, she was Vice-President of the German PEN Center. She is an honorary citizen of the city of Kassel. She died in 1996, ten weeks after her husband. The couple is buried in Schmillinghausen. In 1984, they established the Brückner-Kühner Foundation, which since 1985 has awarded the Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor. The Foundation, now located in the house in which Christine Brückner and her husband lived, functions today as a center for comic literature and as a small museum that can be visited by appointment.
Christine Brückner is one of the most successful women writers of the Federal Republic of Germany. Many of her books sold in the millions, which has led to the judgement of her writing as "popular literature" in the negative sense. But this is undeserved; she writes about fundamental human problems, especially from a woman's point of view, in an entertaining fashion, and reflecting the author's Protestant worldview.
Brückner's first novel, Before the Traces Disappear (Ehe die Spuren vergehen, Gütersloh, 1954) was a great success, allowing her to make a living as a freelance writer. The manuscript won a competition run by the publisher Bertelsmann. In its first year it sold 376 thousand copies, and has since been translated into several languages. It tells of the life crisis of a man who is involved in the accidental death of a young woman.
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