Marie-Luise Scherer

Marie-Luise Scherer (15 October 1938 – 17 December 2022) was a German writer and journalist.

Marie-Luise Scherer
Born(1938-10-15)15 October 1938
Saarbrücken, Gau Saar-Palatinate, Germany
Died17 December 2022(2022-12-17) (aged 84)
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Writer
Journalist

Biography

Scherer began her career as a reporter for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and later wrote for Berliner Morgenpost and Die Zeit. She was a journalist at Der Spiegel from 1974 to 1998, where she became known for her literary reports. More recently, she wrote autobiographical pieces for Sinn und Form, a bimonthly literature journal of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.[1]

In her writing, Scherer wrote a form she characterized as "syllable work", explaining that "two good sentences in one day are lucky".[2] For more than 20 years, she wrote a maximum of two reports a year for Der Spiegel.[3]

In 2012, Scherer received the Kunstpreis des Saarlandes for literature.[4] Her works have been translated into French, Italian, and Spanish. She lived in Damnatz[5] and died on 17 December 2022, at the age of 84.[6]

Awards

Works
  • Ungeheurer Alltag. Geschichten und Reportagen (1988)
  • Der Akkordeonspieler. Wahre Geschichten aus vier Jahrzehnten (2004)
  • Die Bestie von Paris und andere Geschichten (2012)[8]
  • Die Hundegrenze (2013)
  • Unter jeder Lampe gab es Tanz (2014)
  • Der Akkordeonspieler (2017)

References
  1. Winkler, Willi (19 December 2022). "Geschenk an die Sprache". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  2. Pohle, Julia (10 December 2004). "Silbe um Silbe wächst der Text". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  3. Teutsch, Katharina (18 December 2022). "Die Radikale". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  4. "Kunstpreis des Saarlandes an Marie-Luise Scherer". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). 22 March 2012.
  5. "Marie-Luise Scherer". Academy of Arts, Berlin (in German).
  6. "Frühere SPIEGEL-Reporterin Marie-Luise Scherer gestorben". Der Spiegel (in German). 18 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  7. "Neue Mitglieder der Akademie der Künste". Academy of Arts, Berlin (in German). 1 July 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  8. Böttiger, Helmut (10 December 2012). "Paris ganz nüchtern – und grausam". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
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