Karla Höcker

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Karla Alexandra Höcker (born September 1, 1901 in Berlin ; † October 15, 1992 there ; pseudonym Christiana Rautter ) was a German writer , journalist and musician .

Live and act

Karla Höcker was born as the daughter of the writer Paul Oskar Höcker . The Höckers were a patriotic family. When her father made himself available as a soldier for the First World War in 1914 and was drafted, Karla, then 13 years old, wrote about the "German from the Wasserkant" who set fire to the Russian sea fortress Libau with the naval cruiser Augsburg :

“With his ship, a cruiser only small, / he bravely urged into the harbor. / The Russians watched him in amazement / When he laid the mines in full rest. "

From 1923 to 1927 she studied in Berlin at the Staatl. Academ. University of Music. As a violist , she played in the Bruinier Quartet between 1927 and 1937 . She worked as a dramaturge for the Berlin Chamber Opera . She published artist portraits in various magazines until 1945, and from 1946 onwards she mainly wrote composer biographers. She also published in the Telegraf . As the first of the Berlin authors, she describes the psychological problems of men returning home after the Second World War .

Höcker belonged to the so-called Karl Foerster - or "Bornimer Circle", a circle of friends of progressive intellectuals. The landscape architects Herta Hammerbacher , Hermann Mattern , Gottfried Kühn , the architects Otto Bartning , Hans Scharoun and Hans Poelzig , the pianists Wilhelm Kempff and Edwin Fischer and the art historian Edwin Redslob met there . In 1949 she was one of the founding members of the Berlin Writers' Association (BSV-Berlin). Between 1957 and 1990, Höcker was one of the recipients of Hermann Sudermann's donations 14 times .

In 1927, Hans Chemin-Petit set her Der gefangene Vogel - A lyrical game for people or puppets to music. A one-act name, unknown , written by her on behalf of the Berliner Festwochen , was performed with two other plays on the refugee topic under the collective title Unterwegs 1955 in the Hebbel Theater . Her statements are quoted in Walter Kempowski's echo sounder .

Works (selection)

Fonts

  • Experience in Florence. Novel. Velhagen & Klasings Feldpost reading sheet, without number, Bielefeld 1943.
  • Conversations with Berlin artists. Stapp, 1964
  • The last and the first days: Berlin records 1945. Hessling, Berlin 1966.
  • Johannes Brahms : Encounter with people. With 79 contemporary pictures, music samples and documents. (Foreword by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ). Klopp, 1983.
  • Description of a year: Berlin Notes 1945. Arani, Berlin 1984.
  • Of consolation on earth. 20 prose texts (essays). Lothar Blanvalet, Berlin 1946.
  • Franz Schubert in his world. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 978-3-423-07946-4 .
  • The life of Clara Schumann , geb. Wieck. ISBN 978-3781707610 .
  • Wilhelm Furtwängler : Encounters and Conversations. Rembrandt, 1961.

Sound carrier

  • As a violist in the Bruinier Quartet. Ultraphone , recorded in Berlin, January 1931:
  • Karla Höcker reads from her own works: 'The sounds never forgotten' and 'A child from that time' . Music: Friedrich Zehm: Tre Ricordanze. Piano: Irma Hofmeister. LP: Mars 307909 / EMI, 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Jochens, Sonja Miltenberger: Between Rebellion and Reform: Women in the West of Berlin . Jaron Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-89773-003-8 , pp. 100 .
  2. ↑ Image 3 of World War history: daily records and comments as appeared in American and foreign newspapers, 1914-1926 ([New York]), October 2, 1914, (1914 October 2-5). Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ursula Heukenkamp (ed.): German memories: Berlin contributions to the prose of the post-war years (1945-1960). Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-503-04948-7 . P. 122.
  4. ↑ Garden of the residential building Falckensteinstrasse 10. From the monument database of the Senate Department for Urban Development Berlin, accessed on August 8, 2013.
  5. ↑ The Bornimer Circle. Retrieved from the Karl Foerster Foundation on August 8, 2013.
  6. ↑ Ursula Heulenkamp (ed.): Under the emergency roof. Post-war literature in Berlin 1945–1949. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-503-03736-5 , p. 85.
  7. ↑ History of the Prize. At the Hermann Sudermann Foundation Berlin, accessed on August 8, 2013.
  8. ↑ Catalog of works - stage works ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the composer, accessed on August 8, 2013.
  9. ^ Hans Chemin-Petit - On his 100th birthday on July 24, 2002. Retrieved from Robert Lienau Musikverlag on August 8, 2013.
  10. ↑ Festival weeks / theater - topic refugees. In: Der Spiegel of October 10, 1955, accessed on August 8, 2013.
  11. ↑ Martin Pfeideler: Berliner Festwochen and the German East - A critical consideration. In Das Ostpreußenblatt , October 29, 1955, p. 3. (PDF file; 10.6 MB). In Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung called up on August 8, 2013.
  12. ↑ Michael Rutschky: The pacifist as an angry god. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 23, 2009. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  13. ^ Also as the main text of a radio version: The last and the first days - Berlin 1945. Retrieved from the audio game database hoerdat.de on August 8, 2013.
  14. ↑ Ursula Heulenkamp (ed.): Under the emergency roof. Post-war literature in Berlin 1945–1949. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-503-03736-5 , p. 131.
  15. ↑ Catalog raisonné on the composer's website, accessed on August 8, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Hump, Karla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höcker, Karla Alexandra (full name); Rautter, Christiana (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1992
Place of death Berlin