Ute Leukert

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Ute Leukert (born July 27, 1954 in Eisenach , Thuringia ) is a German poet , theologian and women's and civil rights activist . In the 1980s, with the then married name of Ute Kämpf, she belonged to the organized resistance in the GDR and was a co-founder of the Leipzig group Women for Peace .

Life

Private and professional career

Ute Leukert was born as the daughter of Horst and Renate Arndt. After school she completed an apprenticeship as a saleswoman. She succeeded in completing the Abitur at the adult education center. In 1974 she gave birth to her first son. She broke off her direct studies at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management in 1975 for political reasons. His marriage from 1978 to 1988 with the road builder Matthias Kämpf in Leipzig resulted in two daughters. From 1983 to 1988 Leukert was employed as a buyer for used goods at the consumer cooperative. In 1989 she married Bernd Leukert, who came from Eisenhüttenstadt. She began a distance learning course in theology, which she completed in 1993 with the ability to freely proclaim the word. After that, the Hans Böckler Foundation granted her a scholarship from 1993 to 2000 to study art history, comparative literature and psychology at the University of Leipzig . From 1996 she was a guest student at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden. In 2001 she began training as a specialist in women's project work at the State Office for Women's Education and Project Consulting in Dresden. After moving to the city of Freiberg (Saxony) in 1999, she worked for the city's equal opportunities officer for two years. She volunteered to take on educational work in women's projects and associations in Freiberg. Today she lives in Seifersdorf, a district of the city of Großschirma.

Political-subversive engagement in the GDR

Since 1983 Ute Kämpf has participated in events of the Peace Decade. The GDR Military Service Act of 1982 provided for the first time to call up women when mobilizing. Ute Kämpf founded, inspired by Bärbel Bohley and Heidi Bohley , together with Gabriele Heide , the Leipzig group Women for Peace in May 1984 , which was directed against the increasing militarization of public life in the GDR , against military education in kindergarten and school. This group developed working materials for a peace workshop, took part in peace decades and church events, took part in supraregional meetings and in the "Olof Palme Peace March". The Leipzig group Women for Peace existed until 1991. Ute Kämpf represented the group in various church bodies and in events of the GDR peace movement critical of the state. For example, specifically during peace , during the women's night prayers, during fasting campaigns in the St. Luke parish in Leipzig with Pastor Christoph Wonneberger or on the day of action School in Motion . She established contacts with other peace and women groups. On the part of the Ministry for State Security Service of the GDR, the group Women for Peace in (Central Operational Process) ZOV "Wespen" / TV Leipzig was processed, an OPK file (Operative Personal Control) was also kept on Ute Kämpf within this personal context from 1984 to 1989 .

Ute Kämpf's role models were Bärbel Bohley and Jürgen Fuchs . As a writer, Jürgen Fuchs published a portrait of Ute Kämpf in his novel Magdalena .

Political engagement since German unification

After the dissolution of the Leipzig group Women for Peace , Ute Leukert joined the working group “Law and Reconciliation” in Leipzig under the organization and moderation of Pastor Rolf-Michael Turek . It was in this group that she was encouraged to do long-term research on the (Central Operational Process) ZOV "Wespen" / TV Leipzig . Based on the documents of the Ministry for State Security Service of the GDR, she made a contribution to the processing of the history of the GDR with special consideration of the activities of women's groups. She often went public as a contemporary witness. From 1994 to 2000 Ute Leukert was a scholarship holder in the nationwide women working group of the Hans Böckler Foundation.

Artistic work

Ute Kämpf published her first literary texts in the sheets of the autonomous literary scene of the GDR, e. B. in the second person . From 2001 to 2011 she was a member of the AG Wort eV in Freiberg until its dissolution and published in the Freiberg reading books . From 2012 to 2015 she worked in the Sächsische Lyrikgesellschaft e. V. took over the design of artistic programs and organized readings, wrote introductory contributions to artist catalogs and spoke about the opening of art exhibitions.

The first volume of poetry "Augenbaum" by Ute Leukert was published in 2001 by Passage Verlag in Leipzig, the second ten years later by Peter Segler Verlag under the title "Umblaute Zeit". Both volumes of poetry were artistically designed by the painter Michele Cyranka (Tharandt). Ursula Kurz (Dresden) set a selection of the poems to music.

Honor

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IFM-Archiv eV: Ute Leukert: Leipzig group "Women for Peace" 1984-1991 .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Fuchs: Magdalena. MfS, Memfisblues, Stasi, the company, VEB Horch & Gauck . Berlin, Rowohlt, 1998, ISBN 3-87134-051-0 , pp. 227-229, 233, 240 and 262-265.
personal data
SURNAME Leukert, Ute
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ute Kämpf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, poet and GDR civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach , Thuringia