Ursula Werner-Böhnke

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Ursula Werner-Böhnke (real: Ursula Böhnke-Kuckhoff née Werner; born May 17, 1927 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; † August 7, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German children's book author and editor-in-chief of the children's magazine Bummi .

Life

Ursula Werner-Böhnke was born as the daughter of a tram conductor . Her mother was a housewife. After 1945, the father became the technical director of the BVG in West Berlin . Both were of the Catholic faith. Ursula Werner attended middle school from 1933, then trained as a stenographer at a commercial school and then spent her compulsory year in households in Berlin and Bad Kissingen . She then worked as a secretary at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and at the stage and music publisher Dr. Sikorski , who had been relocated from Berlin to Bad Kissingen.

After the end of the Second World War, she returned to Berlin. She attended a course for new teachers in 1945/46 and joined the SED in 1946 . She later started studying pedagogy at the Humboldt University in Berlin, specializing in German and history. At the same time, from February 1947, she worked as an editor of the daily newspaper Junge Welt , which was published by the newly founded FDJ publishing house Neues Leben . There she was responsible for girls and youth issues. In 1947/48 she attended a journalism course. When the children's magazine Our Newspaper (from 1949 Der Junge Pionier , from 1958 drum ) was published, the publishing house appointed Ursula Werner as deputy editor-in-chief. At that time she lived in West Berlin, in 1953 she moved to East Berlin . In 1957 she took the initiative to develop a magazine for preschool children and became the founder of the magazine Bummi , of which she remained editor-in-chief until 1990. On the occasion of the magazine's first anniversary, she wrote the lyrics for the Bummi song, which was popular in the GDR . In addition, Ursula Werner was editor-in-chief of the ABC newspaper from 1957 to 1959 . In 1965 she married the anti-fascist and cultural attaché Werner Böhnke , who died in 1997.

When the children's magazine Bummi was taken over by the Pabel-Moewig publishing house in 1990 , Ursula Werner-Böhnke remained a freelancer and author until 2008. She continued to write all the stories of the title character Bummi as well as fairy tales, songs, verses and contemporary historical texts. Then she turned to setting up her internet blog for children Huxlipux , which she ran until her death. She also headed a children's office in Glienicke / Nordbahn for many years .

From 2000 until his death in 2002 Ursula Böhnke-Kuckhoff was married to the theater scholar Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff . She had five children.

Awards

Publications

  • Bummi in Africa. Leipzig 1967
  • Wiggle tooth travels by train. Leipzig 1977
  • with Horst Irrgang : Bummi at the North Pole. Leipzig 1983
  • Bummi and his friends. Berlin 2006
  • Who doesn't want to stay in life ... Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt, 2006

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Overview of children's magazines in the Soviet zone of occupation and the GDR. In: orlandos.de. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Those who stand in eternity ... Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff tells - notes - publishes , Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2005, p. 225.
  3. ↑ High awards given . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 29, 1980, p. 6.
  4. ↑ High awards given . In: Berliner Zeitung, May 2, 1987, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Werner-Böhnke, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böhnke-Kuckhoff, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German children's book author, long-time editor-in-chief of the children's magazine Bummi
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 2020
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg