Holde-Barbara Ulrich

Holde-Barbara Ulrich (* 1940 in Templin ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Holde-Barbara Ulrich was born in Templin in the Uckermark in 1940 . In 1944, as a result of air raids, her family was evacuated to the nearby village of Flieth , where they stayed after the war. There her father was able to work as a new teacher after returning from American captivity . After graduating from high school, Ulrich worked in agriculture for a year in order to be admitted to study in spite of her bourgeois and intellectual background, which in the eyes of the GDR rulers was flawed . She then studied philosophy and African studies at the East Berlin Humboldt University . Ulrich about her studies:

“It was five years of mental confinement. Mutual distrust among the students, the resulting denunciations and constant justifications were the order of the day. Unbearable, and only got through for the sake of the father. "

After graduating, she worked in the foreign department of the state news agency ADN until the fall of the Wall , but without ever being able to travel to western countries herself. In 1990 Ulrich left the ADN , published her first volume of poetry and went to the women's magazine Für Dich , which she left after a short time. Since then she has been working as a freelance writer, a. a. for Zeit , Spiegel , Elle , Focus and Brigitte .

Holde-Barbara Ulrich is married and lives partly in Berlin, partly in a village in Havelland .

Prizes and awards

• 1990 Emma Journalist Prize .
• 1995 Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for the portrait Then sit down! about a teacher who is paraplegic after an accident, published in Zeit Magazin .
• 2002 Golden Hedgehog , media prize of the reservists' association for the report With the weapons of a woman about Dutch professional soldiers in Kosovo, published in Focus .

Works

• Margret's husband - novel. Orlanda Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936937-22-2 .
• Shadow mothers - adoption - of mothers and their children. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02049-8 .
• Home is not a place - Roman. Ullstein, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-548-24825-X . (About her own Afro-German daughter Chioma.)
• The naked and the possessed - artist portraits. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-320-01965-1 . (Portraits by Hannelore Elsner , Ulrich Mühe , Hannelore Hoger , and Bernd Eichinger, among others .)
• Better to be a cockroach - stories from the edge of the abyss. Quell-Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-7918-3403-7 .
• Images of women - life before '89, with photographs by Katja Worch. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-320-01884-1 .
• Wasted lusts - poems. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-320-01851-5 .
• Knife in a dream - transsexuals in Germany. Konkursbuch-Verlag, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-88769-076-1 .
• Fire in the head - of love, lust and death. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-320-01809-4 . (Portraits and reports about the Gysi family , Heiner Müller , Markus Wolf , and Manfred von Ardenne, among others. Also includes a self-portrait of the author.)
• Pain threshold - 11 portraits in conversation, u. a. by Bärbel Bohley . Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-320-01745-4 .

References and footnotes

1. ^ Holde-Barbara Ulrich: curriculum vitae . In Vita on the author's homepage, online at http://www.lake-side-medienagentur.de/holde_barbara_ulrich/vita/inhalt_vita.html#leben  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Holde-Barbara Ulrich: COME TO ME - IT'S COLD - poems. With six hand-signed drypoint etchings by Heidrun Hegewald, bibliophile edition, Lemme-Presse, Berlin 1990.
3. ↑ Egon Erwin Kisch Prize: An overview of all winners , online at http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/buecher/509895.html
4. ↑ Uwe Barfknecht: Two FOCUS journalists receive an award - the news magazine FOCUS receives the “Mitteldeutsche Journalistenpreis” and “Goldenen Igel”. In: FOCUS press release of June 24th, 2002, online under archive link ( Memento of the original of February 10th, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Literature by and about Holde-Barbara Ulrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Holde-Barbara Ulrich