Ute Erb

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Ute Erb in Berlin (2017)

Ute Erb (born December 25, 1940 in Scherbach ) is a German writer , poet and translator .

Live and act

Ute Erb is one of three daughters - including the writer Elke Erb - of the literary scholar Ewald Erb (1903–1978), who in 1949 brought his family from the Rhineland ( Federal Republic of Germany ) to Halle ( GDR ). The daughters first came to the Francke Foundations . In 1955 Ute Erb joined the FDJ . In 1957 she left the GDR without her parents knowing and moved to Cologne with friends.

She describes her motives for fleeing the GDR in the autobiographical novel The Chain on Your Neck , which she began to write at the suggestion of Joseph Scholmer . The book was published in 1960 while she was working in Kibbutz Gal'ed (a settlement of former members of the Berlin Union Youth) and has been translated into several languages.

She moved to West Berlin and in 1962 married the worker, interpreter and singer Michael Pampuch (divorced in 1966), with whom she translated the Lyndon B. Johnson biography of Booth Mooney. Their two sons were born in 1961 and 1963.

In 1967 her membership in the SPD was revoked after four months because she was instrumental in disrupting a US troop parade in Berlin-Neukölln as part of the fight against the Vietnam War .

Erb graduated from high school in May 1968 on the second path of education . She frequented municipality 1 , was a co-founder, eponym and main tenant of municipality  99 and was active in the children's shop movement. She received a scholarship from the Pädagogische Hochschule Berlin , but as a single parent gave up her studies for financial reasons. In 1970 she joined SEW at the PH .

In her second marriage, Ute Erb was married to the Austrian poet Hermann Schürrer for a year and thus also became an Austrian (Ute Schürrer).

In 1976 and 1979 she published two volumes of poetry. In 1976 she was in charge of organizing the II. Berliner Autorentag (subject: "Write that down, woman") and brought together the literature section in the Association of Democratic and Socialist Artists (VDSK). She worked on the board of the West Berlin Association of German Writers (VS), in the work group literature in the world of work , in the Standing Committee on Culture Days, Progressive Art West Berlin e. V. and in the Lebanon aid with. She is a member of the Graz authors' assembly (GAV) based in Vienna .

From 1974 onwards she worked in composer substitution (English typesetting ), for example from 1978 for the "Research focus on theory and history of building, space and everyday culture in Berlin at the University of the Arts in West Berlin" and proofreader , founded the "Writer Ute Erb & Collective ”and remarried; this marriage was divorced in 1986. As a publisher , she produced some rarities (such as the Landwehr Canal ) and brought a book by Sigrun Casper onto the market. In 1996 she retired due to chronic mercury poisoning .

Ute Erb has lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg since 2001 .

Works (selection)

literature

  • Cross and cross trips. Biography of a German . In Kürbiskern (magazine) 4, 1974: Culture & Nation, 25 years of the FRG
  • BStU 000310. MfS Central Archive, Allg. S, volume 101/77.
  • Susan L. Cocalis (Ed. And translation into English): The Defiant Muse: German Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present , Feminist Press, New York 1986, pp. 121-122.
  • Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German . Bertelsmann Lexikon, Gütersloh 1989
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2002
  • Ute Erb: The chain on your neck . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1960 ( online ).
  • Unite . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1969 ( online ).
  • Rolf Michaelis : We fearful rabbits . In: Die Zeit , No. 19/1977

Web links

Commons : Ute Erb  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Rieck : Also known in the East - Fritz Teufels Handel with the Vopos . In: Die Zeit , No. 50/1967.
  2. ^ Entry "Erb, Ute (mated Ute Pampuch, Ute Schürrer)". In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2012/2013. Walter De Gruyter, Berlin, p. 239.
  3. ↑ See the imprint of the abridged edition by Philip S. Foner, Reinhard Schultz: Das Andere Amerika. Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst und Elefanten Press, Berlin (West) 1983, published by The Journeyman Press, London / West Nyack 1985.
  4. ^ Johann Friedrich Geist and Klaus Kürvers : The Berlin tenement house 1740–1862. Prestel-Verlag , Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7913-0524-7 , p. 8.
  5. ^ Johann Friedrich Geist and Klaus Kürvers: The Berlin Tenement House 1862-1945. Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7913-0696-0 , front cover.
  6. ↑ Johann Friedrich Geist and Klaus Kürvers: The Berlin tenement house 1945–1989. Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7913-0707-X , p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Erb, Ute
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schürrer, Ute (married name); Pampuch-Erb, Ute (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Scherbach , Bonn-Land, now Rheinbach , Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (Voreifel)