Helga Unger (literary scholar)

Helga Unger (born March 15, 1939 in Brno ) is a former German senior library director, literary scholar and writer.

Life

After the expulsion, she lived in Vienna in 1945 and in Bavaria from 1946. She grew up in Chieming am Chiemsee and Traunstein. In 1958 Unger graduated from high school in Traunstein. From 1958 to 1963 she studied German and Romance languages ​​(French) at the University of Munich. In 1963 the state examination for teaching at grammar schools took place. In 1966 she received her doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on a work on German-language Franciscan literature of the Middle Ages; From 1963 to 1968 Unger was a research assistant at the Department of German Philology at the University of Munich. From 1966 to 1971 she was teaching there for German language and literature of the Middle Ages. From 1968 to 2002 she worked in the higher library service in Bavaria: from 1968 to 1970 she was trained as a library trainee, 1970 to 1978 Unger was a consultant in the subject catalog of the Bavarian State Library in Munich, 1978 to 1988 as deputy director of the Bamberg University Library, 1988 to 1995 as Consultant for public libraries in Bavaria at the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Libraries, active from 1995 to 2002 as director of the newly established department for preservation of the Bavarian State Library. Unger has been a freelance writer since 2003.

Scientific publications (selection)

• Eduard Mörike: All works in two volumes . Edited with comments by Helga Unger. Munich 1967–1970
• Emperor Maximilian I: Thank you very much . With an afterword ed. by Helga Unger. Munich 1968
• Spiritual heart Bavngart. A Middle High German book of religious instruction from the Augsburg Franciscan Circle . (Diss.) Munich 1969
• Preambles of German non-fiction literature from the Middle Ages as an expression of literary awareness. In: Ingeborg Glier (Ed.): Work - Type - Situation. Studies on poetological conditions in older German literature. Festschrift Hugo Kuhn . Stuttgart 1969, pp. 217-251
• Twelve centuries of literature in Bavaria . Exhibition of the Bavarian State Library. Munich 1975
• Text and image in the Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts from five centuries in facsimile editions . Exhibition of the Bamberg University Library. Graz 1986
• The mountain of love. European women's mysticism . Edited and introduced by Helga Unger. Freiburg i. Br. 1991
• The Beguines. A story of the awakening and oppression of women . Freiburg i. Br. 2005
• Our pastor is a woman. Experiences and consequences. An ecumenical assessment . Edited by Lea Ackermann and Helga Unger. Freiburg i. Br. 2012

Literary book publications (selection)

• Back light . Poems. Goettingen 1987
• Unwritten letter from Frieda Braun to Lily von Gizycki . With a zinc engraving by Heinzreiber. Pfaffenweiler 1990
• Voices and stone . Poems. With three etchings by Setsuko Ikai. Andernach 1993
• The eyes of the pictures . Poems. With an afterword by Jakob Lehmann. Bamberg 1999
• Burn mark of touch . Poems. Illustrations by Alfons Holtgreve. Marburg 2001
• Mrs. Sanders dreams . Stories. With illustrations by Katrin Bach. Munich 2001
• No other than you . Poems. With pictures by Hans Wolff. Munich 2005
• The heretics of Rocailles . Novella. Munich 2010
• The verses of the dreaming pictures . Poems. Together with Doris Stößlein and Helmut Preußler. Nuremberg 2011.
• We dancers on the crater rim . Poems. With an afterword by Hans Unterreitmeier. Wurzburg 2017.
• Publications in magazines and anthologies.

Prices / memberships

• 1984: Award of the Christian Literature (Novel) competition of the Styria publishing house and the weekly newspaper “Die Furche” for the novel “Distances. The letters of Dorothea F. "
• 2002: Sudeten German Culture Prize for Literature
• 2005: Member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts, Class of Arts and Art Studies
• 2009: Member of the Künstlergilde eV
• 2010: First prize in the literary competition, lyric section, the Esslingen Artists' Guild
• 2012: First prize in the poetry competition Inge Czernik-Förderpreis Lyrik
• 2018: Nikolaus Lenau Prize for dancers on the crater rim

literature

• Paul Konrad Kurz, in: Sudetenland (Zs.) 3/1993; 1/2000; 3/2002; 1/2007;
• Erich Pillwein / Helmut Schneider, in: Lexicon of important Brno Germans. 1800-2000. Schwäbisch Gmünd 2000;
• Richard Exner, in: Sudetenland 3/2001;
• Franz Peter Künzel, in: Sudetenland (Zs.) 2/2002;
• Erich Jooß in: Authors in Bavaria. 20th century. Dachau 2004;
• Ilse Tielsch in: The literary wren. Journal of the Erika Mitterer Society 1/2011;
• Renée Rauchalles, in: Literatur in Bayern (Zs.) 2/2014.