Renate Rasp

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Renate Rasp


Born
in Berlin, Germany
January 03, 1935

Died
July 21, 2015


Renate Rasp was the daughter of German actor Fritz Rasp. After attending a high school (Gymnasium) in Berlin, she began studying acting in 1954. She then studied painting for at the Berlin University of the Arts and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She worked as a commercial graphic artist and started writing in 1965.

She gained attention in 1967 at the last meeting of the so-called Gruppe 47 with her irreverent and provocative poems; in 1968, she caused a stir again at the Frankfurt Book Fair by giving her reading topless. Her debut novel, Ein ungeratener Sohn—a "pitch-black parable" about "educational torture"—was generally well received by critics. However, her subsequent publications, which often dealt with sadistic and masoch
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Kuno

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Das kleine Mädchen, das ich...

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Zickzack: Roman

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Guida all'esercizio pratico...

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Junges Deutschland

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New Writers, No. 9: The Wal...

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