Barbara Ehrt

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Barbara Ehrt (born 1953 in Elbingerode, Harz ) is a German writer.

Life

Barbara Ehrt grew up in Elbingerode in the GDR as the daughter of a sawmill owner. During the school holidays in July 1961, Ehrt and her mother left the GDR, hiding in their aunt's VW Beetle, to visit their grandparents in the western Harz. The building of the wall on August 13, 1961 made the return to the GDR a problem that Ehrt's parents could not do otherwise than to separate. Mother and daughter stayed in the West, the mother was divorced in absentia as a refugee from the republic, the daughter was given to the father, which made regular contact with the father in the GDR impossible. Ehrt did not come to terms with the loss of her entire environment, she dropped out of school and went to enclosed West Berlin . She began to study art at what was then the Academy for Graphics, Printing and Advertising, then switched to the Kassel University and, following a special Hessian decree, received the general university entrance qualification for her degree in graphics / design.

She later studied pedagogy at the Philipps University in Marburg / Lahn and also successfully completed this course. She worked for a few years as a social worker in Amsterdam and returned to Goslar, where she worked in adult education. a. at the educational institute of the Lower Saxony economy, the Prague school and from 1993 to 2000 at the Arbeiterwohlfahrt as a social worker for refugees until the AWO stopped the project. Since then Ehrt has been working as an artist, also ran an art gallery for a short time and has dedicated herself to writing for several years. She published a short guide about the Harz with a view of the miners' wives, several historical novels, short stories whose plot is always located in the Harz and which can be assigned to the genre of fiction. The art historical consideration of the paintings in Goslar town hall was published on the website of the University of Erlangen under the title “A twelfth emperor in the tribute hall”.

Works

  • The bizarre between heaven and Harz: short stories . Goslar, 2016
  • The Venetian: An Amanda Adventure. Harz novel . Clausthal-Zellerfeld: Paper Airplane, 2015
  • The dead in the old shaft: Harz crime novels . Clausthal-Zellerfeld: Paper Airplane, 2012
  • The Harz woman. Novel . Clausthal-Zellerfeld: Paper Airplane, 2011
  • The maid from Bodfeld. The heart of the emperor: short stories . Clausthal-Zellerfeld: Paper Airplane, 2010
  • A little history of the Harz Mountains . Clausthal-Zellerfeld: Papierflieger Verlag GmbH, 2009

literature

  • Sabine Kebir: The classmates called me the red east zone . Interview, in: Friday , January 19, 2016, p. 22

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personal data
SURNAME Honor, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Elbingerode (Harz)