Hedwig Rohde

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Hedwig Marie Rohde (born April 10, 1908 in Berlin-Lankwitz , † August 3, 1990 in Berlin-Steglitz ) was a German writer and publicist .

Life

The daughter of a violinist and an architect, she grew up in Jena , where she attended the municipal lyceum from 1914 to 1922 and then from 1922 to 1923 the municipal business school. She completed an acting and dance training and gained first experience at the theater. In addition, she, who was a descendant of the Berlin writer and journalist Adolf Glaßbrenner , combined her interest in literature with a job at Eugen-Diedrichs-Verlag .

She later moved to Bremen with her father , married the actor and director Gunther Nauhart and worked for the Bremer Nachrichten . After a short time in Hanover , where she worked as a dramaturge , the couple moved to Berlin.

From 1931 to April 1933 she worked as a secretary in a Berlin law firm and then moved permanently to the Berlin editorial office of the Kölnische Zeitung for a year . In 1934 she decided to become a freelance writer and journalist. In this way she continued her work at the Kölnische Zeitung . Since 1933 she was a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer . In 1936 her first short story, Das dunke Herz , was published. After Nauhart's death (1940) he married the composer and conductor Horst Günther Schnell (died in 1943). Their son Wolfgang Amadeus was born in 1941. After the evacuation of the editorial office of the Kölnische Zeitung , Hedwig Rohde lived with her son in Pomerania .

In 1945 she managed to escape with the child via Rostock to Worpswede , where she returned to writing, especially dramatic work, from November onwards. On the side she wrote about theater, dance and literature for the Weser Kurier . In 1947 the novel The detoxified apple appeared , which Heinz Ohff placed in the tradition of Stefan Zweig . She got to know the painter Richard Oelze , whom she married in 1951 and from whom she separated again in 1954. The divorce took place in 1957.

In 1954, immediately after the separation, she returned to her native Berlin (West) . There she worked as a cultural correspondent until 1990, mainly writing literary, theater and ballet reviews as well as portraits of writers. She made contributions in particular for the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , the Tagesspiegel , the Sender Freies Berlin and the RIAS . From 1965 to 1987 she was a member of the board of the Association of German Critics.

Hedwig Rohde died on August 3, 1990 in her Steglitz apartment. Her literary estate is in the Akademie der Künste, Berlin .

About Hedwig Rohde

“Your author portraits show empathetic thinking and your book reviews show a sharpened linguistic sensory. As a poet [she moves] in the intermediate realm between being awake and sinking into the realm of daydreams [...]. The precipitates retain their relation to reality, they are formally free, dialogical and also monological, and yet move away into the conscious unconscious. HR remains [...] tangible and yet is never used, used up, worn out in its language. "

- Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, 1977

"She crosses the border between the arts and critical craft."

- German General Sunday Gazette , 1988

"Thoroughly unsentimental like her poems, she remains unforgettable as a personality in difficult times, graceful, almost dance-like, in appearance reminiscent of a bird that always knows how to soar high."

- New German Issues , 1990

“R's texts are characterized above all by a strict sense of form, which channels and channels the depth psychological content. designed. Searching for traces in the world between reality and The unconscious, influenced by the work of CG Jung , is the big theme of her literature. For example, in her volume of poetry Traummaterial (Bln. 1977), the reality fragment of the dream can structure the individual poem. "

- Killy Literature Lexicon , 2010

Works (selection)

  • 1936: The Dark Heart (short story), S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin.
  • 1939: Der Polyp (continuation story), Kölnische Zeitung , November 1939.
  • 1941: Spring in October (novella), H. Goverts Verlag, Hamburg.
  • 1942: Drachensee (story), Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin.
  • 1946: Another Land (drama), WP: 1950 in Witten.
  • 1947: The detoxified apple (novel), Friedrich Trüjen Verlag, Bremen.
  • 1947: Heraklit - Fragments (publication), Parus Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg.
  • 1950: The woman who read the "Times" (story), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 16, 1950, features section, unpaginated. The same story under the title The woman behind the newspaper , Der Tagesspiegel , No. 2787, November 9, 1954, Feuilleton, p. 3.
  • 1952: The radio play becomes independent (essay), Die Literatur. Sheets for literature, film, radio and stage , issue 11/1952, pp. 7–8.
  • 1957: The Man with the Magnifying Glass , SDR , June 11, 1957.
  • 1963: Orestes and the whale (novel), Gallimard publishing house, Paris / Limes, Wiesbaden.
  • 1964: In den Staubkammern (radio play), RIAS, January 6, 1965.
  • 1966: Between two doors (radio play), RB , April 21, 1967.
  • 1967: For no apparent reasons (radio play), RIAS 2 , June 2, 1969.
  • 1970: Dream Material (radio play), RB, October 19, 1970.
  • 1977: dream material. lyrisch / dialogisch (poetry), Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (= LCB Editions , No. 48), Berlin, ISBN 3-920392-55-8 .
  • 1987: Looking for an apartment (poetry), Galerie Wannsee Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-930923-08-3 .
  • 1989: Full moon and balcony (poetry). In: Neue Deutsche Hefte , Vol. 36, Issue 2/89, pp. 250, 258.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Heinz Ohff: How to build a tower. Hedwig Rohde on her eightieth . In: Der Tagesspiegel . No. 12,932 . Berlin April 10, 1988, features section, p. 5 .
  2. ↑ a b s. s .: Hedwig Rohde for the seventieth . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . No. 80/1978 . Heidelberg April 10, 1978, p. 8 .
  3. ↑ a b c dR: Hedwig Rohde is 80 . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . No. 81/1988 . Heidelberg April 8, 1988, p. 2 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Detlef Krumme: Rohde . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area . 2nd, completely revised edition. tape 9 : Os - Roq. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022044-5 , pp. 705 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Hedwig-Rohde-Archiv. Short biography / history of the institution. In: adk.de. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e Heinz Ohff: On the death of Hedwig Rohde . In: Barbara Günther (Ed.): Neue Deutsche Hefte . No. 204, 4 / 1989-90 . Verlag Neue Deutsche Hefte, Berlin 1989, Chronik, p. 766 f .
  7. ↑ Heinz Ohff: From the secret of love . In: Nordsee-Zeitung . No. 21/1947 , December 15, 1947.
  8. ↑ a b s. s .: The other HR In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . No. 272/1977 . Heidelberg November 25, 1977, literature and life, p. 39 .
  9. ^ Herbert Glossner: What she would like to read ... Hedwig Rohde, 80: Writing as a job . In: German General Sunday Gazette . No. 15/1988 , April 10, 1988, Horizonte, pp. 22 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rohde, Hedwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohde, Hedwig Marie (full name); Quick, Hedwig Marie (temporary name); Oelze, Hedwig Marie (later name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Lankwitz
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1990
Place of death Berlin-Steglitz