Doris Runge (born July 15, 1943 in Carlow) is a German writer.
She was the daughter of a manufacturer whose business was expropriated after World War II. Her family moved to Neukirchen in Schleswig-Holstein in 1953, and he attended schools in Oldenburg and Lübeck before following high education in Kiel where she became a teacher. She married the painter Jürgen Runge (1929–1992) and they divorced in 1981. They couple used to live partially in Ibiza during the 1970s. Runge moved back to Germany where she lives in the so-called Weiße Haus (White House) in , Holstein. She organizes there readings with important contemporary authors. Runge has been continuously publishing poetry books since 1981. She has an international standing (translations into Portuguese, American and Czech).
Prizes
1985, Friedrich-Hebbel-Preis for Jagdlied
1997, Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis
1998, Kunstpreis des Landes Schleswig-Holstein
1998, Poetry Liliencron Lecturer University of Kiel
1999, Poetik-Professur an der Universität Bamberg
2007, Ida-Dehmel-Literaturpreis
2009, Honorary Professor in Schleswig-Holstein
Works
Kunst-Märchen, Berlin, 1977
Liedschatten, Cismar, 1981
Jagdlied, Stuttgart, 1985
Der Vogel, der morgens singt, Cork, 1985
Kommt Zeit, Stuttgart, 1988
Wintergrün, Stuttgart, 1991
Grund genug, Stuttgart, 1995
Welch ein Weib ! , Stuttgart, 1998
Trittfeste Schatten, Stuttgart, 2000
Du also, Munich, 2003
Die Dreizehnte, Munich, 2007
Was da auftaucht. Gedichte, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2010, Zwischen Tür und Engel, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2013, man könnte sich ins blau verlieben Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017,