Helga Schubert

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Helga Schubert (born January 7, 1940 in Berlin ) is the maiden name and pseudonym of the German writer and psychologist Helga Helm, who was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2020 .

Life

Helga Schubert is the daughter of an economist who worked as a librarian and a court assessor who died as a soldier in World War II in 1941 . She grew up in East Berlin . In 1957, she put her matriculation examination from long and then worked for a year in a Berlin industrial company on tape . From 1958 to 1963 she studied psychology at the Humboldt University and obtained a degree in psychology. She worked full-time from 1963 to 1977 and part-time as a clinical psychologist from 1977 to 1987 . Until 1973 she worked in adult psychotherapy , from 1973 to 1977 she worked scientifically - with the aim of obtaining a doctorate - at the Humboldt University. She did not complete this doctorate. From 1977 to 1987 she participated in the training of talk therapists and in a marriage counseling center in Berlin.

Helga Schubert started writing in the 1960s. In addition to a series of children's books in the GDR, she also published prose texts in which the fates of everyday life in the GDR are described in an unusually precise style. In addition, Helga Schubert wrote plays , radio plays , television plays and film scenarios . After the fall of the Wall, she was best known for her documentary work Judas women , which deals with the topic of " denunciators in the Third Reich " on the basis of file studies .

From December 1989 to March 1990 she was independent press spokeswoman for the Central Round Table in East Berlin during the period of transition and the peaceful revolution in the GDR . In preparation for the 1994 federal elections , as a non-party member of the CDU party group from Berlin-Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg, she was asked within one day and was also elected to run against Stefan Heym (PDS) and Wolfgang Thierse (SPD) in the Mitte-Prenzlauer Berg constituency . She withdrew this candidacy after three days for personal reasons.

Helga Schubert belonged since 1976 to the Writers' Union of the GDR and since 1987 the PEN -Zentrum the GDR on. From 1987 to 1990 she was a member of the jury of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for four years. After German reunification, she moved to the PEN center of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1991 .

She has lived with the painter and former professor of clinical psychology Johannes Helm in Neu Meteln near Schwerin since 2008 - also known as the Drispeth artists' colony .

Ingeborg Bachmann literary competition

In 1980, at the suggestion of Günter Kunert , Schubert was invited to the Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt, where the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize was awarded. However, she did not receive a permit to leave the GDR for Austria. One of the reasons for the decision was that there was no such thing as “German literature”; the company "Bachmann Prize" is only there to promote this phenomenon in German literature. Also was Marcel Reich-Ranicki jury chairman; the Stasi saw him as a “notorious anti-communist”.

In 1987 and in the following years - Reich-Ranicki was no longer chairman - she was a member of the jury.

In 2020, at the age of 80, she was invited to participate again at the suggestion of Insa Wilke and thus became the oldest participant in the competition, which she also won with her text Vom Aufstieg . It is a homage to Ingeborg Bachmann's story The Thirtieth Year , which begins with a reflection on getting up and which prompts the protagonist to get up at the end - I tell you: get up and go! You haven't broken a bone - said Schubert in her acceptance speech, which she gave live in a video broadcast from home. Originally she wanted to call the text, alluding to her own age and Ingeborg Bachmann's text, The Eightieth Year , but then rejected the idea.

honors and awards

Works

  • Lots of life. Stories. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1975.
  • Bimmi and the high-rise ghost . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1980.
  • Bimmi and Victoria A . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1981 (together with Jutta Kirschner).
  • The concern . Film scenario . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982.
  • Bimmi and the black day . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1982 (together with Jutta Kirschner).
  • The forbidden room. Stories . Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, Darmstadt 1982.
  • The fairy tale of happy sad people.
  • Bimmi and her afternoon . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1984 (together with Jutta Kirschner).
  • Point of view. Stories . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
  • Anna can speak German. Stories of women . Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Darmstadt 1985.
  • And tomorrow again ... , Berlin 1985.
  • Nice trip. Stories . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1988.
  • Talk about feelings? Berliner Verlag, Berlin 1988.
  • Do women bend their knees? Zurich 1990 (together with Rita Süssmuth ).
  • Judas women. Ten case histories of female denunciation in the Third Reich . Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Frankfurt / Main 1990.
  • Do women pay for reunification? Piper Verlag, Munich 1992 (together with Rita Süssmuth).
  • Bimmi from the high house . Berlin 1992 (together with Cleo-Petra short).
  • The dissident . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1994.
  • The cracked heart. Life in contrast . Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1995.
  • The world in there. A German mental hospital and the madness of the "unworthy life" . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt 2003.

Filmography

literature

  • Brigitte Böttcher (Ed.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Helga Schubert, p. 92 f .
  • Alessandro Bigarelli: Ethics and discourse in female writing using the example of Helga Schubert's stories . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1998.
  • Siegmar Faust:  Schubert, Helga . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "I had to turn 80 to be able to write that" , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, broadcast on June 21, 2020 (moderation: Eckhard Roelcke), accessed on June 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Helga Schubert wins Bachmann Prize , sueddeutsche.de, published and accessed on June 21, 2020.
  3. ^ Leonore Lötsch: At the age of 80 for the Bachmann competition. NDR.de, June 17, 2020, accessed on June 17, 2020.
  4. ↑ Helga Schubert wins Bachmann Prize. DER SPIEGEL, June 21, 2020, accessed on June 21, 2020 .
  5. ^ Marie Schmidt: Win the prize. Continue to care for the man. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 21, 2020, accessed June 22, 2020 .
  6. ^ Christiane Oelrich: Late appreciation for Helga Schubert. Berliner Morgenpost, June 21, 2020, accessed on June 21, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Johanna Steiner: Loud life, loud pain . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 27, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 14 ( taz.de [accessed June 27, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Original article in the anthology by Horst Heidtmann, ed .: The improvement of people. Fairy tale. Contribution by Franz Fühmann et al. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1982. pp. 102-108. The other contributions in this collection are excerpts from larger works by the respective authors.
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helm, Helga (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin