Hedwig Voegt

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Hedwig Therese Dorothea Henriette Voegt (born July 28, 1903 in Hamburg , † March 14, 1988 in Leipzig ) was a German literary scholar and university professor .

Life

Hedwig Voegt was born in the Hamburg district of St. Pauli . After attending school, she trained as an office clerk . From 1920 she worked for the Deutsche Reichspost . In 1925 she joined the KPD , was a workers correspondent for the Hamburger Volkszeitung and published the illegal company newspaper of the telephone exchange in Hamburg.

During the period of National Socialism was politically persecuted and in 1931 was arrested for the first time. On September 12, 1933, she was dismissed from the postal service under the Civil Service Restoration Act . She worked illegally for the KPD and was sentenced in 1934 to a two-year prison term for preparation for high treason , which she served in the Lübeck-Lauerhof women's prison . The Gestapo arrested her in 1938, after which Hedwig Voegt was imprisoned in Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp until the end of March 1939 . She was taken hostage when Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941 .

After the end of World War II , Hedwig Voegt resumed her political work for the KPD and was a member of the Wasserkante district leadership; she worked at the state employment office in Hamburg.

In 1948 the KPD delegated Hedwig Voegt to study in the Soviet occupation zone . She was a research assistant at the Goethe and Schiller Archives in Weimar and from 1949 studied journalism in Leipzig. In the same year she became a member of the SED . At the University of Jena was in 1952 with the thesis The democratic patriotism in the German Jacobean literature 1790-1800 to Dr. Phil graduated with cum laude . Your doctoral supervisor was Gerhard Scholz .

In 1953 she received a teaching position for the history of German literature at the University of Leipzig . In 1955 she moved from the Philosophical Faculty to the Faculty of Journalism , became a professor in 1959 and taught literary journalism and style . At the same time she headed the Institute for Literary Journalism and Stylistics and from 1961 was Vice Dean for the next generation of academics. In 1963 she was on duty entpflichtet . In the summer semester of 1986, she gave a lecture on Jacobean travel literature at the invitation of Inge Stephan from the literary studies seminar at the University of Hamburg . In March 1988 her urn was buried in the Leipzig South Cemetery.

Hedwig Voegt published works and letters by Georg Friedrich Rebmann , Rebmann's Hans Kiekindiewelts Reisen in all four parts of the world and other writings , Johann Heinrich Voss ' works in one volume and Knigges Der Traum des Herr Brick .

Awards

Works

  • Edith Braemer, Hedwig Voegt: The demand of the day. A picture of Goethe for the German working people . Verlag der Tälichen Rundschau, Berlin 1949
  • German Jacobean literature and journalism. 1789 to 1800 . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1955.
  • Georg Friedrich Rebmann: Hans Kiekindiewelts travels in all four parts of the world and other writings . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1958.
  • Johann Heinrich Voss: works in one volume . Selected and introduced by Hedwig Voegt. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1966. (2nd edition 1972; 3rd edition 1983)
  • Rebmann, Georg Friedrich . In: Biographical Lexicon on German History . Edited by Karl Obermann , Heinrich Scheel , Helmuth Stoecker a . a. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1967, pp. 387–388.
  • Georg Friedrich Rebmann: Cosmopolitan walks through a part of Germany . Edited and introduced by Hedwig Voegt. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1968.
  • Adolph Freiherr von Knigge: The dream of Mr. Brick. Essays, satires, utopias . Edited by Hedwig Voegt. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1968. (2nd edition 1979)
  • Ceremonial address on the occasion of the reopening of the Schillerhäuschen in Leipzig-Gohlis on September 7, 1968 . Leipzig City Archives, Leipzig 1969.
  • Johann Heinrich Merck: I have enough bile in my blood. Fables, satires, essays . Edited by Hedwig Voegt. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1973.
  • Georg Kerner: Jacobin and poor doctor, travel letters, reports, testimonies of life . Edited by Hedwig Voegt. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1968
  • Georg Friedrich Rebmann: Holland and France written in letters on a trip from the Lower Elbe to Paris in 1796 and the fifth of the French Republic . Edited by Hedwig Voegt. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1981.
  • Georg Friedrich Rebmann: Works and Letters . 3 volumes. Edited by Hedwig Voegt, Werner Greiling and Wolfgang Ritschel. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1990.

literature

  • Voegt, Hedwig . In: Irene Uhlmann (Ed.): The woman. Small encyclopedia . Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1961, p. 722.
  • Voegt, Hedwig. In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 9th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin 1961, p. 2162.
  • Voegt, Hedwig . In: Kurt Böttcher: Writer of the GDR . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1974, p. 575.
  • Ursula Suhling: Rebellious literature - source of moral strength. Hedwig Voegt (1903 to 1988). Memories and biographies . With a contribution by Dr. Evamaria Nahke. Epilogue Dr. Wolfgang Beutin. Hamburg 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Suhling, p. 30; Ralph Jessen: Academic Elite and Communist Dictatorship. The East German university teaching staff in the Ulbricht era . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, p. 343.
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , July 5, 1973, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Voegt, Hedwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voegt, Hedwig Therese Dorothea Henriette (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1988
Place of death Leipzig