Dana Horáková

Dana Horáková (born March 27, 1947 in Grünbach (Saxony) ) is a German - Czech journalist . From 2002 to 2004 she was a non-party Hamburg Senator for Culture in the Senate of First Mayor Ole von Beust .

Life

Dana Horáková grew up in Prague as the daughter of a German mother and a Czech father . After studying philosophy at the Charles University in Prague was in 1971 with the dissertation Meister Eckhart as a prelude to Martin Heidegger doctorate . During her studies in Prague, she was a member of the student group around Milan Machovec , which initiated the “Dialogue between Marxists and Christians” in what was then Marxist-atheist Czechoslovakia.

From 1968 to 1969 she studied at the Union Theological Seminary in New York and wrote a thesis on Dietrich Bonhoeffer . Since 1971 she has been teaching philosophy at the Technical University of Prague . Since 1973 she was part of the circle of friends around the playwright and later President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel . In her apartment - a meeting place for poets, theologians, actors, etc. critical of the regime - she and Havel became the publisher of the illegal samizdat publishing house Edice Expedice in 1975 , which published works by dissidents . After Charter 77 was published, it was terminated without notice. She was then banned from working and was finally forced to leave the country.

In 1977 she married the film director Pavel Juráček (1935–1989).

After leaving Czechoslovakia in 1979, she worked first in Munich and from 1992 in Berlin as an author and journalist. a. for the Westermann publishing house . She was also head of the cultural department for Bildzeitung , BZ and Bunte, and from 2000 to 2001 she was deputy editor-in-chief of Welt am Sonntag . In 1993 she moved to Hamburg, where she was a non-party Senator for Culture from 2002 to 2004 . She was instrumental in the creation of Germany's first International House of Photography.

Works

Books

• Your name is your destiny. 3 volumes. Langen-Müller, Munich 1982.
  • Anna , ISBN 3-7844-1937-2 .
  • Helene , ISBN 3-7844-1936-4 .
  • Maria , ISBN 3-7844-1935-6 .
• Monuments in Germany. What old stones tell us. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1996, ISBN 3-404-60430-X .
• The Christophorus Project. The duty of the elderly to save our children. New Europe, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-86695-360-7 .
• Role models. Famous Germans tell who is important to you. Marix, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-86539-147-6 .
• When women love younger men. And why these relationships are so fulfilling. Zabert Sandmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89883-246-5 .
• Strong women - adored, loved, demonized. Quadriga 2011, ISBN 978-3-86995-016-7 .
• How do I explain to my dog ​​that he is not human? Lau-Verlag, Reinbek 2012, ISBN 978-3-941400-42-9 .
• 101 Top Dogs - From unrecognized dogs from known people and vice versa. Kynos-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-95464-050-8 .

Radio plays

• Death No. 44.047 (via Edith Stein )
• Sylvia (via Sylvia Plath )

script

• Day of Idiots , feature film (D 1981)

Prices

• "Culture Prize" from Radio Klassik (as cultural mediator, together with August Everding )
• Medal for bravery in the fight against communism (Prague 2018)

Web links

• Literature by and about Dana Horáková in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dana Horakova - Hamburg Senator for Culture with Czech roots

Individual evidence