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Christa Reinig (6 August 1926, Berlin – 30 September 2008, Munich) was a German poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and dramatist. She began her career in the Soviet occupation zone which became East Berlin, was banned there after publishing in West Germany, and moved to the West in 1964, settling in Munich. She was openly lesbian. Her works are marked by black humour and irony. ==Life and career== Reinig was raised in eastern Berlin by her mother, Wilhelmine Reinig, who was a cleaning woman.〔Madeleine Marti, tr. Joey Horsley, (Christa Reinig ), Biographies, FemBio〕 After the end of the Second World War, Reinig was a ''Trümmerfrau'' and worked in a factory.〔 She also sold flowers on the ''Alexanderplatz'' in the 1940s.〔("Vergessene Ikone der feministischen Literatur: Zum Tod der Schriftstellerin Christa Reinig" ), Deutschlandradio, 6 October 2008, revised 15 April 2009 〕 In the 1950s she obtained her Abitur at night school and went on to study art history at Humboldt University,〔 after which she took a job at the Märkisches Museum, the museum of the history of Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg, where she worked until she left Berlin for the West.〔 She made her literary début in the late 1940s in the satirical magazine ''Ulenspiegel'',〔Katrin Hillgruber, ("Nachruf: Christa Reinig—Ich träume von meiner Verkommenheit" ), ''Der Tagesspiegel'', 7 October 2008 〕 at the urging of Bertolt Brecht; she had been working there as an editor.〔("Lakonische Lyrikerin: Christa Reinig ist tot" ), ''Der Spiegel'' 6 October 2008 〕 In 1956, her "Ballade vom blutigen Bomme" ("Ballad of Bloody Bomme", first published in 1952)〔Martin Lüdke, ("Von schnodderigem Charme: Die vergessene, große Dichterin Christa Reinig ist tot. Sie starb im Alter von 82 Jahren" ), ''Frankfurter Rundschau'', 7 October 2008 〕 was included in Walter Höllerer's poetic anthology ''Transit'', which brought her to the attention of readers in the West; one writer in 1963 referred to its "strange mix of benevolent cynicism and bottomless sadness".〔("Mein tiefstes Herz heißt Tod" ), ''Die Zeit'', 7 June 1963 : "()ieses eine Gedicht in seiner unheimlichen Mischung aus freundlichem Zynismus und bodenloser Traurigkeit ließ einen großen Teil der über dreihundert von Höllerer zusammengetragenen Gedichte junger deutscher Autoren als gegenstandsloses Kunstgewerbe hinter sich." - "()his single poem, in its strange mix of benevolent cynicism and bottomless sadness, outclassed a large part of the more than three hundred poems by young German writers assembled by Höllerer, (them ) as artifice lacking all substance."〕 However, she was largely forbidden to publish in the East beginning in 1951,〔〔 while she was still a student.〔(Neuer Vorlass in Marbach: Die Schriftstellerin Christa Reinig hat ihre Papiere dem Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach übergeben ), Press Release, German Literature Archive, 8 August 2008 〕 She was already involved in the West Berlin ''Gruppe Zukunftsachlicher Dichter'' (group of future-reasoning writers)〔Madeleine Marti, (Christa Reinig ), Biographien, FemBio 〕 and continued to publish both poetry and stories with West German publishers. In 1964, after her mother's death,〔 Reinig travelled to West Germany to receive the Bremen Literature Prize and stayed there, settling in Munich.〔〔 She suffered from ankylosing spondylitis; she left her desk at the museum empty except for an X-ray of her crooked spine.〔 In 1971, she broke her neck in a fall on a spiral staircase; inadequate medical care left her severely disabled〔Ricarda Schmidt, "Sockelfigur am 'gußeisernen Paradepferd der Weltgeschichte': Christa Reinigs autobiographischer Roman ''Die himmlische und die irdische Geometrie'' als 'Weibsgeschichte' aus der Zeit des kalten Krieges", ''The German Quarterly'' 72.4 (Fall 1999) 362–76, (p. 362 ) 〕 and having to survive on a government pension.〔 She could not use a typewriter again until being fitted with specially made prismatic spectacles in 1973, after which she wrote her first novel, the autobiographical ''Die himmlische und die irdische Geometrie'' (The Heavenly and the Earthly Geometry), which she completed in 1974.〔〔〔 Reinig died on 30 September 2008 in the Catholic care home where she had moved at the start of that year.〔 She left her papers to the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christa Reinig」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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