Helga Schütz

Helga Schütz (1993)

Helga Schütz (born October 2, 1937 in Falkenhain , Goldberg district , Lower Silesia ) is a German writer and screenwriter.

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Helga Schütz is the daughter of a metal former who grew up with her grandparents in Dresden from 1944 . After elementary school, she completed an apprenticeship as a gardener and worked as a landscape gardener . From 1955 to 1958 she attended the workers and farmers faculty in Potsdam , from 1958 to 1962 she studied dramaturgy at the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg ; she completed this course with a diploma. Since 1962 she worked as a freelance screenwriter for DEFA , initially mainly in the documentary field . From 1965 she worked closely with the director Egon Günther , with whom she also had a private relationship for many years. Schütz wrote numerous scripts for documentaries and feature films , and occasionally directed them herself. Since 1993 she has held a professorship for screenwriting at the University of Film and Television in Potsdam. Since the 1970s, Helga Schütz has also emerged as the author of prose works , in which some of her own childhood and youth experiences are portrayed in a poetically alienated form. The author is strongly influenced by scriptwriting in her scenic and dialogic narrative style.

Schütz received the following awards: 1968 the Heinrich Greif Prize 1st class, 1973 the Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR , 1974 the Theodor Fontane Prize of the Potsdam district , 1991 the Stadtschreiber Prize of the City of Mainz , 1992 the Brandenburg Literature Prize , 1998 Dr. Manfred Annual Fair of Honor from the German Schiller Foundation and in 2003 the Calw Hermann Hesse Scholarship . In accordance with a resolution of the city council on December 6, 2017, she was made an honorary citizen of the city of Potsdam with the handover of the certificate of appointment on January 26, 2018 . On November 30, 2018, she was honored by the DEFA Foundation for her life's work in film art.

Schütz lives in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Prehistory or beautiful area Probstein , Berlin 1971; Benziger, Zurich 1972 ISBN 3-545-36181-0
The earthquake near Sangerhausen and other stories . Berlin 1972
Festive lighting . Berlin 1974
Jette in Dresden . Berlin 1977
Julia or education for choir singing . Berlin 1980
Martin Luther. A story for the film . Berlin 1983
In Anna's name . Structure, Berlin 1986 ISBN 3-630-61831-6 ; Assembly paperback 1586, Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-7466-1586-0
Home sweet home . Berlin 1992
From the shine of the Elbe . Berlin 1995
Limit to yesterday . Berlin 2000 ISBN 3-351-02384-7 ; Construction paperback 1839, Berlin 2002 ISBN 3-7466-1839-8
with Rainer J. Fischer (photos): Dahlias in the sand, my garden in Brandenburg . Structure, Berlin 2002 ISBN 3-351-02939-X
Knee-deep in paradise . Novel. Structure, Berlin 2005 ISBN 978-3-351-03031-5
Sepia . Novel. Structure, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-351-03505-1
The cherry thief . Narrative. Structure, Berlin 2017 ISBN 978-3-351-03675-1
Of garden rooms and magic gardens . Structure, Berlin 2020 ISBN 978-3-351-03475-7

1974: Le Rossignol means nightingale - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
1980: Jette im Schloss - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)

Brigitte Böttcher (Ed.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Helga Schütz, p. 96 f .
Wolfgang Gabler: Helga Schütz. In: Literature of the German Democratic Republic. Individual representations. Volk und Wissen, Berlin 1987, pp. 369–385
HMB ( Hans-Michael Bock ): Helga Schütz. In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film. LG. 17th edition text + kritik, Munich 1990, D1 – D5
Jurgita Dapkute; Beatrice Sandberg: love between dream and reality. Investigation of imagery and structures in Helga Schütz's novel In Anna's Name. German Institute of the University of Bergen, Bergen 2000
Leonore Krenzlin , Ingrid Kirschey-Feix: Schütz, Helga . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Margarete Schilling : Vivos voco - I call the living. The forbidden movie. Photos, contracts, letters, contemporary documents. Material for the DEFA documentary film from 1981. New edition Apolda 2016
Cornelia Geißler: Helga Schütz: Stayed in the country. In Emma. , 335, November – December 2017, p. 18f. (with photo).

↑ Helga Schütz's membership entry at the Academy of Sciences and Literature
^ Peer Straube, Henri Kramer: First woman: Helga Schütz becomes an honorary citizen . In: Potsdam's latest news . December 7, 2017 ( pnn.de [accessed December 7, 2017]).
↑ Klaus Büstrin: The good spirit of Potsdam increased . In: Potsdam's latest news . January 27, 2018 ( pnn.de [accessed January 27, 2018]).
↑ Claudia Palma: Potsdam's honorary citizen Helga Schütz honored . In: Märkische Allgemeine . November 30, 2018 ( maz-online.de [accessed November 30, 2018]).
↑ She wrote the scenario , which, however, was not implemented for reasons that are not clear. So the film remained unfinished. (See Horst Dähn: Luther und die DDR. Berlin, 1996: ISBN 3-929161-81-8 , page 102 f.) Your book for the planned film, however, appeared under the title: Helga Schütz: Martin Luther - Ein Erzählung für the film (see also above under works)

personal data
SURNAME	Schütz, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 2, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Falkenhain , District of Goldberg , Province of Lower Silesia