Helga Schubert

Helga Schubert ( pseudonym of birth or name of Helga Helm, born January 7, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German writer and psychologist.

Life

Helga Schubert is the daughter of a librarian working as an economist and a 1941 fallen Court Assessors and grew up in East Berlin. She put her matriculation examination in 1957 and then worked for a year at a Berlin industrial plant on the tape. From 1958 to 1963 she studied psychology at the Humboldt University and earned the degree of a licensed psychologist. She was next to professionally active from 1963 to 1977 in the main profession and from 1977 to 1987 as a clinical psychologist: Until 1973, she worked in adult psychotherapy from 1973 to 1977, she was scientific - with the aim of promotion - at the Humboldt University operates. She has not completed this promotion. From 1977 to 1987 she was involved in the training of therapists and conversation in a marriage counseling center in Berlin. Since 1977 she is a freelance writer. From December 1989 to March 1990 she was non-party press officer of the Central Round Table in East Berlin. Today the author lives with the painter and former Professor of Clinical Psychology John Helm in New Meteln in Schwerin - also known as an artist colony Drispeth.

Helga Schubert, who already began writing in the sixties, published in the GDR in addition to a series of children's books of prose texts in which on stylistic unusually precise nature fates are described from the GDR life. In addition, Schubert wrote plays, radio plays, television plays and film scenarios. After the turn she was best known for her documentary work " Judas women ", which dealt with on the basis of document studies the issue of " informers in the Third Reich ".

Helga Schubert, who belonged to the Writers' Union of the GDR and since 1987 the PEN center of the GDR since 1976, was in 1987 a member of the jury of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize; In 1991, she moved over to the PEN center of the Federal Republic of Germany. Schubert received include the following Awards: 1982 Screenplay Award at the 2nd National film festival of the GDR for the concern, in 1983 the Heinrich Greif Prize, the 1986 Heinrich Mann Prize in 1991 an honorary doctorate ( Doctor of humane letters ) Purdue University and 1993 Hans Fallada prize.

Works

  • Lauter life. Stories, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1975.
  • Bimmi and the high-rise ghost, children's book publishing house Berlin 1980
  • Bimmi and Victoria A, children's book publishing house Berlin 1981 ( together with Jutta Kirschner )
  • The disquiet. Film scenario, Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982.
  • Bimmi and the black day, children's book publishing house Berlin 1982 (together with Jutta Kirschner )
  • The Forbidden Room. Stories, Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, Darmstadt, 1982.
  • The Tale of the happy sad people.
  • Bimmi and her afternoon, children's book publishing house Berlin 1984 (together with Jutta Kirschner )
  • Angle. Stories, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
  • Anna can German. Stories of women Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Darmstadt, 1985.
  • And tomorrow ..., Berlin 1985
  • Beautiful travel. Stories, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1988.
  • Talking about feelings? Berliner Verlag, Berlin 1988.
  • Walking women to their knees? , Zurich 1990 (together with Rita Süssmuth )
  • Judas women. Ten case histories of female denunciation in the Third Reich, Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1990.
  • Pay women the reunion? Piper Verlag, Munich 1992 (together with Rita Süssmuth )
  • Bimmi from the high house, Berlin 1992 (together Cleo Petra Short ).
  • The dissenters, German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1994.
  • The cracked heart. Life, in contrast, German paperback publishing house, Munich 1995.
  • The world in there. A German psychiatric hospital and the delusion of the " unworthy of life ," Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt, 2003.
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