Maria Beig

Maria Beig (8 October 1920–3 September 2018) was a German school teacher and author.

Maria Beig
Born(1920-10-08)October 8, 1920
DiedSeptember 3, 2018(2018-09-03) (aged 97)
OccupationAuthor
NationalityGerman
Notable awardsAlemannischer Literaturpreis
Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis

Life and career

Beig was born on 8 October 1920[1] near Lake Constance in the German region of Swabia.[2]

Beig published her first novel, Rabenkrächzen (Raven's Croak) in 1982. It followed the fictional lives of four families from Meckenbeuren.[1] While it was unpopular in her home region of Swabia,[2] it did win the Alemannischer Literaturpreis in 1983.[3]

Her second novel Hochzeitlose (Lost Weddings) was published in 1983[1] and follows four women from Swabia during the World War I and II. It is set out as four novellas, each focusing on a different woman; Babette, Helene, Klara and Martha, and their refusal to marry. It was translated into English by Jaimy Gordon and Peter Blickle.[2]

Her novel, Hermine: An Animal Life, centers around a fictional woman and her interactions with 64 species of animal on her family's farm. It was also translated by Gordon and Blickle.[2]

In 1996, she won the Johann-Friedrich-von-Cotta-Literatur- und Übersetzerpreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart award[4] and was awarded with the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis in 2004.[5]

Her success as a writer was in part aided by the encouraging support she received from the German novelist Martin Walser who directed her to publish with Suhrkamp, a major publisher in Germany. In 2009 she published her autobiography called Ein Lebensweg.[1]

gollark: In CS, we have a few examples of *provably* secure systems.
gollark: For example, if the court system was terrible and just asked the defendant whether they had broken the law and trusted them to be right, that would obviously be nonrobust.
gollark: No. There are robust systems and less robust ones.
gollark: Intentions don't matter very much if the outcomes are bad.
gollark: They might be designed to be. That doesn't mean they *actually are*.

References
  1. Kopitzki, Siegmund (7 September 2018). "Konstanz: Die Stimme Oberschwabens: Zum Tod der Autorin Maria Beig". Südkurier (in German). Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  2. Null, Matthew Neill (16 October 2015). "No Judgment, No Message, No Mercy". The Paris Review. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  3. "Literaturpreis Gewinner". Alemannischer Literaturpreis (in German). Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  4. Leckey, Susan (2015). The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes. Routledge. p. 164. ISBN 9781135356323.
  5. Mürner, Christian (2010). Erfundene Behinderungen: Bibliothek behinderter Figuren (in German). AG SPAK Bücher. p. 169. ISBN 9783940865045.
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