Hilka Koch

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Hilka Koch (* 1938 in Oldenburg as Hilka Buscher) is a German author .

Life

Hilka Koch is the daughter of the NSDAP training leader and later SS leader Heinrich Buscher and has (te) several siblings. Her father, who was interrogated as a witness in the Nuremberg trials after the Second World War , founded a textile mail order business in Oldenburg in 1949 and also worked as a writer under a pseudonym. Around 1950 the family moved from Oldenburg to Bad Zwischenahn . Her father died in 1954 when she was 15 years old. After graduating from high school, Koch studied history, education and political science. She then worked as a teacher in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.

In addition, from 1980 Koch worked as a freelance journalist for the Nordwest-Zeitung . In addition, she has published three books so far, two of which she illustrated with her own photographs, as well as numerous anthology articles. She had her first photo exhibition in 1998. Hilka Koch worked on literary projects and was involved in founding the Oldenburg authors' group Wortstatt , among other things . From 2012 to 2013, she took over the management of a writing workshop as an executive lecturer , which had been initiated on the occasion of the 100th International Women's Day 2011 by the Equal Opportunities Commissioner of the Ammerland district .

In addition, Koch volunteered in the social field, such as with the children's aid organization terre des hommes . In 1981 she founded the terre des hommes Oldenburg / Ammerland working group , which still exists today. At the end of the 1990s she traveled with a small selected delegation from the children's aid organization to Bolivia and Peru to help on site and to get an idea of ​​the living situation there. She processed her experiences in her 1999 illustrated book The White Condor .

Koch is critical of her father's Nazi past and advocates reconciliation between Jews and Germans. Among other things, she wrote together with the Jewish poet Rahel Renate Mann the book I give you my hand , published in 2005 .

She is the mother of two children and lives in Bad Zwischenahn. Her son is the screenwriter and writer Jando .

Works

Books
  • together with Rahel Renate Mann : I offer you my hand. Poems - thoughts - texts. Schardt, Oldenburg 2005, ISBN 3-89841-177-X .
  • Shore row. Rostrup. Zwischenahner Meer. Texts and photos. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2002, ISBN 3-89598-857-X (illustrated book).
  • The white Condor. A slightly different journey. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1999 / unchanged new edition 2005, ISBN 3-89598-644-5 (illustrated book).
Anthology articles
  • Despite that (and another five contributions). In: Friday workshop “Telling and Writing” / Association Dialog e. V. (Ed.): Look at the beginning. Stories, poems, narrative reports. Self-published by Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-95488-691-3 , pp. 134-138.
  • A pug came ... In: Gisa Kossel, Christian Meyer (ed.): Meyers Saal & Meyers Küche. 9 literary and culinary menus. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89995-857-7 , p. 37 ff.
  • pre-spoken (2nd price) In: Uta Fleischmann: WortReich. Anthology of the first writing competition 2012 of the LiteraturKabinett in the Künstlerhaus Staublau. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89995-914-7 , pp. 13-15.
  • Unopened. In: Reinhard Rakow (Ed.): ZwischenZeiten. The anthology of the First Bern Book Weeks. 2nd Edition. Geest-Verlag, Vechta-Langförden 2008, ISBN 978-3-86685-150-4 , pp. 200-202.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Lilla (arrangement): The deputy Gauleiter and the representation of the Gauleiter of the NSDAP in the "Third Reich" . Ed .: Federal Archives , Koblenz (=  materials from the Federal Archives . Issue 13). Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Bremerhaven 2003, ISBN 3-86509-020-6 , p. 9-10 .
  2. ↑ a b See information from and about Hilka Koch in: Relationship crisis. Home in uncertain times. (PDF; 86 kB) Radio feature by Rosemarie Bölts. Deutschlandradio Kultur , January 28, 2013, pp. 10–11 , accessed on January 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c (ujo): Reading: Writer takes listener on a poetic journey. In: nwzonline.de . June 8, 2012, accessed January 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ See publication with the results of the writing workshop: Hannelore Ilsemann-Arends u. a .: 100 years of women's life in Ammerland . With a foreword by Hilka Koch. Ed .: Kreisvolkshochschule Ammerland, in cooperation with the Equal Opportunities Officer of the Ammerland district. Ammerland district, Westerstede June 2013 ( digitized on apen.de [PDF; 670 kB ] Brochure with the texts of the 16 participants in the writing workshop).
  5. ↑ Andreas Berger: A Jewish woman and the daughter of an SS man want to free themselves from hatred. In: braunschweiger-zeitung.de . March 15, 2005, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  6. ↑ (LD): Reading: Writing together as a dialogue between cultures. In: nwzonline.de . January 3, 2011, accessed January 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Cook, Hilka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buscher, Hilka (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg