Jutta Hecker

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Jutta Hecker (born October 13, 1904 in Weimar ; † July 26, 2002 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Jutta Hecker was the daughter of the Goethe philologist Max Hecker (* April 6, 1870; † April 9, 1948) and his wife Lili geb. Emperor. She studied German and English at the University of Munich and graduated in 1930 with the dissertation The Symbol of the Blue Flower . Immediately afterwards she worked at the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar from 1930 to 1935 . From 1935 to 1937 she studied pedagogy at the University of Jena and in 1937 got a job as a study assessor in Hamburg for two years . In 1940 Hecker switched to teaching German at a teachers' seminar in Schneidemühl and later in Bad Honnef . In the last years of the war she was promoted to rector of this seminary.

After Hecker worked in a craft business in the first post-war years, she settled in Weimar again in 1954. Since then she has only devoted herself to her literary work. She wrote biographical novels and stories about important people from the classical Weimar period.

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In autumn 1989 the Verlag der Nation Berlin, which has published most of Hecker's works since 1965, published the anthology Wunder des Worts - Leben im Banne Goethe, with biographical texts on Grand Duchess Sophie , Bernhard Suphan , Rudolf Steiner and hers on the author's 85th birthday Father Max Hecker . The circulation of her books published by this publisher was then 400,000 copies; the circulation of all books in which she was involved up to then was around 600,000 copies.

She is buried in the historical cemetery in Weimar .

Awards

In 1988 she was presented with the Winckelmann Medal from the city of Stendal . In 1990 Jutta Hecker was awarded the Weimar Prize . Four years later she received honorary citizenship of the city of Weimar for her services to the city and for her life's work . On June 9, 1995, Jutta Hecker was honored with the highest award of the Goethe Society Weimar, the Golden Goethe Medal .

Works

literature

  • Jutta Hecker - as a reminder. * October 13, 1904 in Weimar, † July 26, 2002 in Weimar . Hamecher, Kassel 2003 (collection of articles).
  • Dieter Fechner : Personal encounters with Thuringian authors in the 20th / 21st Century . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2014, ISBN 978-3-86777-718-6 , Jutta Hecker (1904-2002), p. 76-81 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Brandl: “And everything is fruit! And everything is seeds! ” , Pp. 133-139 in: Jutta Hecker: Miracle of the Word - Life under the Spell of Goethe . Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-373-00322-9
  2. ↑ http://www.goethe-gesellschaft.de/docs/460.html

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personal data
SURNAME Hecker, Jutta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2002
Place of death Weimar