Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner

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Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner (born May 1, 1937 in Halberstadt ; † November 24, 2008 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German author, translator and publicist.

Live and act

Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner completed an apprenticeship in glass painting in Ulm, studied painting in Kassel and Munich as well as art history , theater history and journalism in Berlin. She lived in Rome for a long time before moving to Haunetal - Kruspis in East Hesse or Frankfurt am Main. She had two sons from her divorced marriage to the writer and lawyer Peter O. Chotjewitz . The younger of the two, David Chotjewitz , also works as a writer.

Publications

As a translator, she translated, among other things, the plays of Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame into German. Her publications also include essays, stories and poems in anthologies, magazines and newspapers, as well as features for the radio. In her studies she dealt with rural Jewry in Hesse, with local history, the question of women and searching for literary traces. So she gave z. In 1999, for example, the City of Literature Frankfurt was published, which lists the homes and places of work of important poets, philosophers and publishers, and in 2006 the photo and text volume Hessian Literature in Portraits , which, in addition to the texts by Hessian authors, mainly contained 52 artistic portraits by the photographer Ramunė Includes Pigagaitė .

Social Commitment

From the mid-1970s Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner was involved in the women's movement and in cultural initiatives, then in the Association of German Writers (VS). From 1988 to 1991 Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner was chairwoman of the Hessen State Association in the Association of German Writers. In addition, from 1984 to 1986 she was an assessor on the federal board of the VS. As a member of the provisional federal board in 1988/1989, during an extremely difficult phase, which was characterized by the spectacular resignations of well-known colleagues, she led the association into the newly founded IG Medien , whose cultural and political affairs were Face she has decisively shaped. She was the spokeswoman for the VS History Commission established in 1991, which dealt with the processing of the history of the two German writers 'associations VS and the German Writers' Association (SV / DSV) in the GDR. In this function, together with Carsten Gansel , she gave the documentation of the VS Congress of 1984 in Saarbrücken under the title Verfeindete loner. Writers argue about politics and morals .

In Frankfurt she was a co-founder and source of ideas for a number of literary projects. She was one of the initiators of the Roman Factory and the Frankfurt Literature Office (today: Hessisches Literaturforum ) and founded the Frankfurter Literaturtelefon in 1990. In 1996 she was one of the founding members of the Hessen Literature Society. V. Since 2007 Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner was the deputy chairwoman of the VS Hessen and an assessor on the board of the Hessian Literature Council.

Posthumous honor

Since 2011, on the anniversary of her death, the Renate-Chotjewitz-Häfner sponsorship award “in memory of this committed, clever, sometimes rebellious artist and writer” has been awarded annually to women authors from the Frankfurt area . In his will, Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner had a sum of money for the promotion of women authors from the Frankfurt area, with which this award is endowed.

bibliography

Non-fiction

  • Feminism is not pacifism - documents from the Italian women's movement . Verlag Freie Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main 1977. ISBN 3-88215-011-4
  • Literary Frankfurt - writers, scholars and publishers; Places of residence, work and works . Together with Robert Brandt. Verl. Jena 1800, Jena u. Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-931911-07-1

Together with Peter O. Chotjewitz

  • Those who sow with tears - Israeli travel journal . Verlag Authors Edition, Munich 1980. ISBN 3-7610-0567-9
  • The Jews of Rhina - from the chronicle of an East Hessian village . Edited by "Die Grünen" Landkreis Hersfeld-Rotenburg u. "Riedmühle eV" Oberellenbach. VGD (Verl. Geisteswiss. Documentation), Oberellenbach 1988 ISBN 3-9802016-0-0

Editions

Editions and translations

Translations

Editorial editing

  • Neukirchen - between Haune and Stoppelsberg . 100 years of village history. Edited by the community council of the Haunetal community. Haunetal market town, Haunetal 2005. ISBN 3-9808816-5-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Chotjewitz Häfner is dead , short obituary on fr-online.de, November 28, 2008, accessed on May 29, 2013
  2. ^ A b Association of German Writers , State Association of Hesse: Between the River and the Skyline , for the Renate-Chotjewitz-Häfner sponsorship award
personal data
SURNAME Chotjewitz-Haefner, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, translator and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 2008
Place of death Frankfurt