Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui

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Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui (* 1940 in Remscheid ) is a professor emeritus for German literature at the University of Saint-Étienne (France) and an essayist.

Life

Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui comes from a Remscheid entrepreneurial family. After starting her studies (philosophy, history, German studies) in Cologne , she moved to West Berlin . After dropping out of her studies due to illness, she was able to realize her “long-cherished wish to leave Adenauer Germany”.

She led her studies in Paris with French literature and German studies and graduated its license at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Montpellier from.

She was unable to take the agrégation (a competition test required in France) required for a university teaching position , as the French authorities refused her naturalization despite meeting the formal admission criteria . The reason for this was their close research-related contacts with writers in the GDR . So she went to the University of Lyon to do a dissertation there on the poet Peter Hacks and obtained her doctorate. Later she was naturalized and dropped the Agrégation.

After serving as civil servant, she was refused an academic teaching post because her main theses on German literature were not accepted. In particular, they mistrusted their argument that Peter Hacks was not a GDR dissident , but a socialist classic who affirmed and supported the GDR as a whole. Eventually she received a position as Maître de conférences at the University of Saint-Étienne .

Today she lives in Montpellier with her husband, the Spanish biochemist Juan Jauregui-Adell , who is doing research at the local CNRS .

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Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui mainly works in essays. In France she has the reputation of being a proven connoisseur of German and, in particular, of GDR literature . She never followed academic rules in her publications. Her main interest was the representatives of classical literature in Germany, in particular Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Thomas Mann , Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht .

In 1986 she received the Heinrich Mann Prize from the Academy of Arts in East Berlin .

Friendship with Peter Hacks

Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui saw in the GDR playwright Peter Hacks the legitimate heir of German classical music and the descendants of Goethe, Hegel and Heine. She dedicated her dissertation and several essays to his work. She visited him regularly from 1975 onwards and maintained a continuous correspondence until Hacks' death in 2003.

Working on Heinrich Heine

A substantial part of the essays by Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui deals with the work of Heinrich Heine . In 2009, after intensive research into the history of literature, she presented a biographical novel on the life and work of the writer Elise Krinitz , Heine's last lover, known as “the Mouche”.

Publications

  • Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui: Between the chairs. The poet Peter Hacks . Eulenspiegel, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-359-01657-2 .
  • Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui: Poet's love. Life and work of Heinrich Heine's last mistress, the "Mouche" . VAT Verlag André Thiele , Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-940884-02-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Urbahn de Jauregui, Heidi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jauregui, Heidi Urbahn de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Germanist, professor of German literature and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid