Katherina Holzheuer

Katherina Holzheuer (* 1941 in Posen ) is a German librarian.

Life

After finishing school, she studied library science at the library school in Berlin. After graduating, she came to the Munich bookstore Kubon & Sagner. In July 1966 she sent her to Prague for a two-month internship with the aim of establishing a Czech second-hand bookshop in Munich to establish contacts with booksellers. During further study trips to Prague, she deepened her knowledge of Czech literature. After marrying a librarian from the Würzburg University Library in 1972, she moved to the Würzburg suburb of Gerbrunn and worked as a librarian in the Würzburg City Library .

In over 30 years of work, she has compiled a unique selection of around 1000 works by German-speaking Bohemian and Czechoslovak writers from the period 1900 to 1990, mainly from Prague second-hand bookshops. In 2005 she decided to donate her collection to the newly emerging Prague House of Literature for German-Language Authors , the basis of which her collection represents today. It is currently the most complete collection of its kind in the Czech Republic kept in one place.

Honors

• September 30, 2007: Honorary citizenship of Černošice
• July 10, 2009: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

• Katherina Holzheuer: How my collection came about (PDF; 155 kB)