Caroline Muhr

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Caroline Muhr (born May 20, 1925 in Essen , † January 13, 1978 in Bad Godesberg ; actually Charlotte Klemp, married Puhl) was a German writer and songwriter .

Youth and education

The author grew up as Charlotte Klemp in Essen, where she passed the final exam at the Maria Wächtler secondary school on March 12, 1943.

After completing her labor and military service , she was able to study one semester at the University of Marburg in 1944 . Then she was conscripted to work in a munitions factory and a laboratory until 1945.

After the end of the war she attended a language school and completed courses in shorthand and typing. She then worked as an interpreter for the Allied Coal Control Commission ( National Coal Control Commission ), which had resided in Villa Hügel since April 1945 .

In the winter of 1947, she resumed her studies in Cologne , graduating with a major in philosophy and minor subjects in sociology and history of literature on February 27, 1954. She did her doctorate on Nietzsche and transcendence under Karl-Heinz Volkmann-Schluck .

Employment and Marriage

She then devoted herself to political opinion research and the dubbing of American documentaries. Several study visits took her to England. She worked for the US Information Service in Bonn for twelve years .

In the summer of 1955 she married the economist Dr. Hans Puhl, who later became the managing director of the German watch industry, with whom she initially lived in Essen-Stadtwald, Sundernholz 41.

Literary work

When she began to write, she may have chosen the pseudonym Caroline Muhr, based on the (male) protagonist of Rudolf Jakob Humm's novel Carolin (Zurich 1944).

Your first publication Depression. Diary of a Disease (1970) was autobiographical. The reviewer of the SPIEGEL already predicted that all psychiatric experiences speak against the described spontaneous healing : "The next depression will definitely come."

The book was filmed for ZDF under the direction of Herbert Vesely (first broadcast on July 25, 1975). Walter Jens judged at the time in the ZEIT : “There was no sign of the consistency of the confusions (as presented in the original for the film, Caroline Muhr's diary). Instead of consequence: coincidence and arbitrariness. Instead of horror: an artistic spectacle, technical magic and so-called artistic design. "

Caroline Muhr also wrote poetry, radio plays and two other novels.

Engagement in the women's movement

In 1973 she founded the eight-member song group Bonner Blaustrüumpf in the Bonn Women's Forum . For this group she wrote numerous popular songs on topics of the women's movement , which were set to music by Inge Latz , and appeared as a singer . She described her experiences in the Women's Yearbook '77 .

Despite her successes as a songwriter and writer, Muhr fell ill again with severe depression. She died of suicide on January 13, 1978 .

Works

  • (as Charlotte Klemp) Nietzsche and the Transcendence. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty in Cologne. Diss. Masch., Cologne 1954
  • Depressions. Diary of an illness. Kiepenheuer u. Witsch, Cologne, Berlin 1970 (Pocket Vol. 14), ISBN 3-462-01121-9 ; Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1978 (Fischer Taschenbuch 2035), ISBN 3-596-22035-1 ( filmed )
  • Girlfriends . Schneekluth, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7951-0276-6
  • Hubert's Journey or No Evil is greater than the fear of it . Literarischer Verlag Braun, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-88097-103-X
  • The Bonn blue stockings. Story of a feminist song group. In: Women's Yearbook '77 . Frauenoffensive, Munich 1977, pp. 117-124, ISBN 3-88104-023-4

Songs set to music by Inge Latz

  • for raising hair. songs of protest and mockery for the new women's movement. Songbook for the Year of Women (texts by Gisela Meussling and Caroline Muhr). Frauen-Verlag, Koblenz 1975
  • Who only lets the dear man rule ; Whoever believes will be saved ; Partnership . In: Walter Heimann, Ernst Klusen (Ed.): Critical songs of the 1970s. Texts and notes with accompanying chords. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1978 (Fischer Taschenbuch 2950), ISBN 3-596-22950-2
  • To a man ; The song from the women's shelter ; A man in his prime ; Women's party. In: Women's songs. Texts and notes with accompanying chords. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980 (Fischer Taschenbuch 2957), ISBN 3-596-22957-X
  • The song about the women's shelter . In: We were silent for far too long. Songs for, by and about women. Verlag Jugend & Politik, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-88203-056-9

Sound carrier

  • The Bonn blue stockings sing songs of protest and mockery. (LP, with Inge Latz, Ulrike Dumrese, Christel Fischer and Gisela Meussling.) Bonn 1977 (Text by Caroline Muhr: Die neue Frau ; Who only lets the dear man rule ; Psychology ; Heimchen, stay at your stove ; Partnership - a song from the kitchen ; The song of the women's shelter ; Whoever believes will be saved )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cf. on this section the curriculum vitae in Nietzsche and the Transcendence , Appendix.
  2. Chronicle . In: Die Zeit , No. 25/1955
  3. ^ Educated sick people . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1971 ( online ).
  4. momos (Walter Jens): Report on Josefine K. In: Die Zeit , No. 32/1975