Dagmar Scherf

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Dagmar Scherf (born June 21, 1942 in Danzig ) is a German writer and journalist .

Dagmar Scherf (2007)

Life

Dagmar Scherf spent the first three years of her life in Gdansk. After the family fled in 1945, she grew up in the Altmühltal in Central Franconia . She earned a degree at the then still independent, but since 1972 in the Ludwig-Maximilians-University integrated Pedagogical University Munich and completed his doctorate at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz for Dr. phil. She then taught at the University of Bristol for a year and worked as a publishing editor in Frankfurt am Main for another eight years . She has lived with her husband, the journalist Günther Scherf, in the Seulberg district of Friedrichsdorf since 1977 and has been working as a freelance writer and journalist since 1981. She is a member of the Association of German Writers (at the ver.di union ), of which she was chairman in Hesse from 1982 to 1984.

Literary focus

Memorial plaque for the witch hunt

Dagmar Scherf has published books ( poetry and short stories, novels , children's and non-fiction books) and a number of radio plays and plays . In particular, she delved into the individual fates and backgrounds of the witch hunt in the Homburg office , which at that time also included Seulberg and Köppern . Between 1603 and 1656 62 women and 14 men were executed in the Homburg office, most of them between 1652 and 1654. Dagmar Scherf's concern is to use literary means to explain the sociological and psychological background. Through its initiative, the city of Bad Homburg vdH announced in 2012 that the victims of the local witch trials should be rehabilitated. In July 2017 a plaque with the title "Justice after 400 years" was finally installed next to the old town hall tower.

In recent years, the author has concentrated on writing numerous libretti for musicals (including for children) and works closely with musicians (for example Jochen Schimmelschmidt and Bertram Schattel ). The Requiem for a Witch was premiered on November 1, 2013 in the English Church of Bad Homburg (text: Dagmar Scherf, music: Laurie Reviol).

Publications (selection)

  • Dissertation: Dagmar Deskau: darkness and commitment. On the design of the historical reference in the poetry of Johannes Bobrowski , Mainz 1973. - Revision published by Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1975.
  • The ride on the fence. Witch texts. Edition Gisela Meussling, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-922129-12-9
  • Witch heart and pot belly. Stories. Cologne 1988, now Edition Gisela Meussling, Bonn, ISBN 3-88142-436-9
  • Homburg witch hunt or when is tomorrow? VAS Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2000, ISBN 3-88864-301-5
  • The devil and the woman. Aspects of a Cultural History of Evil. VAS Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2002, ISBN 3-88864-338-4
  • The rain ticket. Poems. Edition Octopus, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-937312-30-7
  • Oh, your laugh, Lorelei! Underground narratives. Edition Octopus, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-86582-268-0
  • Violet bleeding. What the war did to me and what I made of it. A literary autobiography. VAS Verlag, Bad Homburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-88864-512-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heidrun Lembach-Küster, in: BA 4/91 (basic service and information sheet of the lecturing cooperation for public libraries), without page number.
  2. ↑ Martina Propson-Hauck: Homburger witches rehabilitated . Ed .: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 24, 2012 ( HTML [accessed June 13, 2012]).
  3. ↑ Torsten Weigelt: witch hunt in Homburg . Ed .: Frankfurter Rundschau . July 14, 2017 ( witch hunt in Homburg [accessed August 2, 2017]).
  4. ↑ The pieces are in the Deutsches Theater Verlag Weinheim, [1] and in the theater market, http://www.theaterboerse.de/ published

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personal data
SURNAME Scherf, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig