Jutta Voigt

Jutta Voigt, 2012

Jutta Voigt (born June 5, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and author.

Life

Jutta Voigt grew up in the east of Berlin and studied philosophy at Humboldt University . From 1966 to 1990 she worked as an editor and film critic for the weekly newspaper Sonntag . An unpublished interview conducted in 1976 with the singer and artist Sanije Torka was provided by Voigt Wolfgang Kohlhaase, for whom it served as a real basis for the script for the film Solo Sunny . Sanije Torka is not mentioned in the film, but Jutta Voigt is mentioned as a consultant in the opening credits.

After the end of the magazine Sonntag , she initially worked as an editor for its successor Friday , then for the Wochenpost . At the end of 1996 the weekly post was discontinued as an independent magazine and initially appeared as a supplement to the magazine Die Woche . Jutta Voigt was one of the employees who were taken on by the week . In 2002 the week was also discontinued. Jutta Voigt then switched to the magazine Die Zeit as a freelance columnist .

Jutta Voigt also works as a book author. In 1989 she published a volume with reports about people on Kollwitzplatz in Berlin , which she wrote together with Fritz-Jochen Kopka , who also worked on Sundays . In 2005 Wahlfreundschaft was published , a series of columns about encounters in a café that had appeared at the time . Together with authors such as Cees Nooteboom , she wrote the text accompanying an anthology with photographs by Sibylle Bergemann . Her later works such as The Taste of the East or Visiting the West deal with everyday culture in the GDR.

In 2000 she received the Theodor Wolff Prize for a report about her personal German-German experiences during the week . and in 2004 the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. Jutta Voigt is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Fonts (selection)

• Left charm. 10 reports from Kollwitzplatz , Schneekluth, Munich 1989, ISBN 978-3-7951-1130-4 (together with Fritz-Jochen Kopka )
• The tiger is crying. Real Stories , Transit, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-88747-118-7
• Elective acquaintances. People in the café , Ch. Links-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-86153-351-1
• The taste of the east. On eating, drinking and living in the GDR , Kiepenheuer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-378-01076-5
• West visit. On life in the times of longing , construction, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-351-02675-2
• The sun is rising on the east side. Reports from other times , be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86124-635-0
• Late performance. From the adventures of getting older , construction, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-351-02752-0
• Despair and crime. People in front of the court , construction paperback, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7466-3183-7
• Bull blood years. Die Boheme des Ostens , Aufbau, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-351-03611-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Jutta Voigt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview im Stern (2006)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website ( memento of July 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) of the BDZV with the award-winning text