Christa Dericum

Christa Dericum (also: Christa Pross-Dericum , Christa Dericum-Wambolt , born May 21, 1932 in Rheinberg am Niederrhein ; † December 8, 2014 ) was a German writer .

Life

Christa Dericum completed a study of the history and sociology at the universities of Heidelberg and Ann Arbor . 1964 doctorate it to the University of Heidelberg with a work on a theme from the history of Burgundy to the Doctor of Philosophy . After an internship at the Westdeutsche Zeitung in Düsseldorf , she worked as a journalist , radio editor and publisher's editor. From 1968 on she was a freelance writer and translator. Dericum's first marriage was to the social scientist Harry Pross , with whom she was based in Weiler / Allgäu . From 1998 she lived with her second husband Philipp Wambolt von Umstadt in Heidelberg .

Christa Dericum was the author of historical , essayistic and narrative works; next translated them from English and French .

Christa Dericum was a member of the Association of German Writers and the PEN Center Germany , of which she was Secretary General from 1993 to 1995. In 2001 she received a scholarship from the Villa Decius in Krakow.

Works

• Keysers Antiques Lexicon , Heidelberg [u. a.] 1961 (together with Peter-Wilhelm Meister)
• The image of cities in Burgundian historiography of the 15th century , Heidelberg 1964
• Belgium, Luxembourg , Olten [u. a.] 1971 (together with Josef Rast)
• Holland , Olten [u. a.] 1973 (together with Josef Rast)
• Fritz and Flori , Munich 1976
• Maximilian I. , Munich 1979
• Des Geyer's black heaps , Munich 1980
• Fascination of Fire , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1996
• Burgundy , Stuttgart 2000
• The time and the time after , Berlin 2003

Editing

• Rudolf Walter Leonhardt : Zeitnotizen , Munich 1963
• Burgundy and its dukes in eyewitness reports , Düsseldorf 1966
• Alfred Weber : Did we Germans fail after 1945? , Munich [u. a.] 1979
• Homeland and Homelessness , Berlin 1987 (edited with Philipp Wambolt)

Translations

• Margaret Lavinia Anderson : Windthorst , Düsseldorf 1988 (translated together with Hildegard Möller)
• Stanislav Andreski : The sorcerers of the social sciences , Munich 1974
• Carl J. Friedrich : Tradition and Authority , Munich 1974
• Denis Hay : History of Italy in the Renaissance , Stuttgart 1962
• Jean Héritier : Katharina von Medici , Stuttgart 1964
• John H. Plumb : The future of history , Munich 1971
• The Russian Intelligentsia , Stuttgart 1962

Web links

• Christa Dericum on the website of the Heidelberg City Library
• Interview with Christa Dericum from 2002