Christoph Meckel

Christoph Meckel (born 12 June 1935 in Berlin) is a German author and graphic artist.[1]

Life

Christoph Meckel spent his youth in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he attended Gymnasium. In 1954/55 he studied graphic art at the Academy of Art in Freiburg im Breisgau, and in 1956 at the Academy of Art in München.

Since 1956 he has worked as both an author and graphic artist. He has traveled extensively through Europe, Africa, and America and lived in Oetingen in Markgräflerland, in Berlin, in the south of France, and in Tuscany.

His graphic work has appeared in numerous exhibitions. Until his withdrawal in 1997, Meckel was a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is a member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz and the Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt.

In her book "For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Childrearing and the Roots of Violence" Alice Miller provides quotes Meckel on his childhood: Punishment followed on a grand scale. For ten days, an unconscionable length of time, my father blessed the palms of his child's outstretched four-year-old hands with a sharp twitch. Seven strokes a day on each hand: that makes one hundred and forty strokes and then some. This put an end to the child's innocence. Whatever it was that happened in Paradise involving Adam, Eve, Lilith, the serpent, and the apple, the well-deserved Biblical thunderbolt of prehistoric times, the roar of the Almighty and His pointed finger signifying expulsion - I know nothing about all that. It was my father who drove me out of paradise.

Awards

Meckel has received numerous literary prizes, including:

Works

Exhibition Catalogs

Publications

Translations

Illustrated Works

Literature

References

  1. "Hoffnung auf Hoffnung - Christoph Meckel liest aus seinen Texten über Roger Loewig" (in German). Märkische Allgemeine. 9 November 2010. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
  2. "Ehrung für Müller, Weinrich und Meckel". Mitteldeutsche Zetung (in German). mz-web.de. 7 May 2003. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
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