Helga Königsdorf

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Helga Königsdorf at the 10th GDR Writers' Congress, 1987

Helga Königsdorf , married Bunke (born July 13, 1938 in Gera ; † May 4, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician and writer .

Education and university career

After her doctorate in 1963 (with her thesis on the stability of stochastic differential equation systems ) and her habilitation in 1972, she worked from 1974 until her early retirement in 1990 as a professor of mathematics at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in East Berlin , where she worked in the department for probability theory and headed statistics . As a mathematician, she published under the name Helga Bunke.

Literary career

Königsdorf published her first stories in the GDR in 1978 . Like Christa Wolf , Brigitte Reimann and Maxie Wander , she dealt with the consequences of the equality of women practiced in the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1990, she documented her departure from the GDR in 18 minutes of conversations ( Adieu GDR ) and later reflected on the history of the GDR in several essays. Many of her stories deal with the scientific community in the GDR. Königsdorf was a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Private

Königsdorf was married to the mathematician Olaf Bunke . The mathematician Ulrich Bunke is their son, the German- Argentinian guerrilla Tamara Bunke was their sister-in-law. Helga Königsdorf suffered from Parkinson's disease for more than 30 years .

Works (fiction)

  • My improper dreams (stories, 1978), Aufbau-Verlag
  • The course of things (stories, 1982), Aufbau-Verlag
  • Disrespectful interaction (story, 1986), Aufbau-Verlag
  • Light conditions (stories, 1988), Aufbau-Verlag
  • Inconvenient finding (story, 1990), Aufbau-Verlag
  • Adieu GDR (Protocols, 1990)
  • Right next to Africa (narration, 1992), Rowohlt Verlag , Berlin
  • In the shadow of the rainbow (novel, 1993), Aufbau-Verlag
  • About the immediate salvation of the world (Essays, 1994), Aufbau-Verlag
  • On the way to Germany (Protocols, 1995), Rowohlt Verlag , Reinbek b. Hamburg
  • The disposal of the grandmother (Roman, 1997), Aufbau-Verlag
  • Landscape in changing light (memories, 2002), Aufbau-Verlag

Fonts (mathematics)

  • Helga Bunke: Ordinary differential equations with random parameters . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972.
  • Olaf Bunke, Helga Bunke (Eds.): Statistical methods of model building . Berlin 1986.
  • Olaf Bunke, Helga Bunke (eds.): Nonlinear regression, functional relations and robust methods . 2 volumes. New York 1989.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Helga Königsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helga Königsdorf. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, pp. 549-550, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  2. ↑ Helga Königsdorf in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ Helga Königsdorf , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 16/2003 of April 7, 2003, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
  4. ↑ Janina Fleischer: Dream Worlds Against Internal Censorship Helga Königsdorf died at the age of 75. In: Märkische Allgemeine . May 6, 2014, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ mxw / dpa: Professor and publicist: GDR writer Helga Königsdorf is dead. Spiegel Online , May 5, 2014, accessed on May 5, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Horst Haase: From mathematics to (beautiful) literature - Helga Königsdorf. In: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society, vol. 85 (2006), pp. 117–130. - Full text in http://leibnizsozietaet.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/10_haase.pdf
  7. ^ GDR essayist: writer Helga Königsdorf is dead. Zeit-online literature, May 5, 2014, accessed on May 6, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Königsdorf, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bunke, Helga (civil)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2014
Place of death Berlin