Ulla Berkéwicz

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Ulla Berkéwicz (2004)

Ulla Berkéwicz ( Ursula Unseld-Berkéwicz ; * November 5, 1948 in Gießen as Ursula Schmidt ) is a German actress , writer and publisher .

Life

Ulla Berkéwicz is the daughter of the doctor and author Werner Schmidt (1913–2007) and the actress Herta Stoepel . The name Berkéwicz, which she later adopted as a stage name, is derived from the name of her Jewish grandmother, Berkowitz . After finishing high school, Ulla Berkéwicz attended the Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt am Main .

In the 1970s she had engagements as an actress at stages in Munich , Stuttgart , Cologne , Hamburg , Bochum and West Berlin . During this time she translated individual pieces by Calderón , Shakespeare and Synge for the stage. In 1979/80 she played the leading role in the award-winning historical film Birth of the Witch (in the film as Ulla Berkévicz ), staged by her husband at the time, the set designer and director Wilfried Minks . In 1987 she moved to Frankfurt am Main.

In 1990 she married the publisher Siegfried Unseld . After his death in 2002, she was accepted into the management of Suhrkamp Verlag . In October 2003 she took over the chairmanship of the management. Berkéwicz's divorce lawyer Heinrich Lübbert also became Unseld's executor and was appointed by her as a member of the foundation's board of directors and as legal advisor at Suhrkamp Verlag.

With effect from December 10, 2015, she withdrew from the operating business of the publishing house and now forms the supervisory board of the Berlin publishing house Suhrkamp , which she chairs, together with Rachel Salamander and Sylvia Ströher .

Ulla Berkéwicz is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

As a writer she received the following awards:

Works

literature

  • David-Christopher Assmann: Poetologies of the literary business. Scenes at Kirchhoff, Maier, Gstrein and Händler (studies and texts on the social history of literature 139). Berlin u. Boston: de Gruyter 2014.
  • Hahn, Hans-Joachim: Representations of the Holocaust. On the West German culture of remembrance since 1979 (= Problems of Poetry 33), Heidelberg: Winter 2005.
  • Tilmann Moser : literary criticism as a witch hunt. Ulla Berkéwicz and her novel “Angels are black and white”. A polemic . Piper, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-492-11918-2 ( Piper series 1918).
  • Postma, Heiko: Principle of empathy. On Ulla Berkéwicz 'stories and the novel "Angels are black and white" , in: Der Deutschunterricht. Contributions to his practice and scientific foundation, 1993, No. 1, pp. 70-80.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Commercial register Frankfurt am Main , HRB 53776 - January 22, 2002: MWW Achtundachtzigste Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH, commercial register report, available at http://www.handelsregister.de/
  2. Commercial register Berlin-Charlottenburg , HRB 126556 B: Suhrkamp Verlagsleitungs-Gesellschaft mit LIMITED Liability, commercial register report, available at http://www.handelsregister.de/
  3. Felicitas von Lovenberg : Will death be abolished one day, Mrs. Berkéwicz? FAZ, April 18, 2008, interview
  4. Hubert Spiegel: Suhrkamp on the high seas , FAZ, December 13, 2006
  5. A new era is dawning In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 10, 2015 : faz.net, accessed on December 10, 2015