Helga Schubert

Helga Schubert (pseudonym for Helga Helm, born 7 January 1940 in Berlin) is a German psychologist and author.

Life

Helga Schubert is a daughter of a librarian, who was also active in economics, and of a 1941 favored Gerichtsassessor and grew up in East Berlin. She took her Reifeprüfung (secondary school examination) and worked afterwards a year in a Berlin industrial plant on the assembly line. From 1958 to 1963, she studied psychology at the Humboldt University and acquired the degree of a diploma in psychology. From 1963 to 1977, she was in the main profession and from 1977 through 1987 in a second occupation as an active clinical psychologist: until 1973, she worked in adult psychotherapy. Then from 1973 to 1977, she was active scientifically at the Humboldt University with the aim of a Doctorate. She did not attain the doctorate. From 1977 until 1987 she contributed to the teachings of Gesprächstherapeuten (psycho therapy with a focus on speech) and at a marriage advice center in Berlin. Since 1977, she is an author. From December 1989 until March 1990, she was a neutral spokesperson of the Central Round Table in East Berlin. The author lives today together with painter and leading clinical psychologist Johannes Helm in Neu Meteln in Schwerin - also known as Künstlerkolonie Drispeth (Artist Colony Drispeth).

Schubert, who began preparations in the sixties with the writing, published in the DDR beside a series of children's literature prose text, in which would be portrayed from unusual stylistic precise stylish art sale from the East German everyday life. Beside it, Schubert wrote Theater Dramas, Radio Dramas, Television Plays and Movie Scenes. After die Wende, she would be known through her documentary work "Judasfrauen" which dealt with the theme "Denunciation in the Third Reich" from the foundations of file study.

Schubert, who has belonged to Schriftstellerverband der DDR (Writer's Union of East Germany) since 1976 and the P.E.N.-Central of East Germany since 1987 though moved to the P.E.N.-Central of Germany in 1991, received among others the following awards: 1982 Script Prize at the second National Film Festival of the DDR for Die Beunruhigung (The Worry), 1983 Heinrich Greif Prize, 1986 Heinrich Mann Prize, 1991 Honorary Doctorate - Doctor of Humane Letters from Purdue University, 1993 Hans Fallada Prize and 2020 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.

Works

• Lauter Leben (Louder Lives), Berlin 1975
• Bimmi und das Hochhausgespenst (Bimmi and the Multi-story Building Ghost), Berlin 1980
• Bimmi und die Victoria A (Bimmi and the Victoria A), Berlin 1981 (together with Jutta Kirschner)
• Die Beunruhigung (The Worry), Berlin 1982
• Bimmi und der schwarze Tag (Bimmi and the Black Day), Berlin 1982 (together with Jutta Kirschner)
• Das verbotene Zimmer (The Forbidden Room), Darmstadt [et al.] 1982
• Bimmi und ihr Nachmittag (Bimmi and her Afternoon), Berlin 1984 (together with Jutta Kirschner)
• Blickwinkel (Eye Angle), Berlin [u. a.] 1984
• Anna kann Deutsch (Anna can speak German), Darmstadt [et al.] 1985
• Und morgen wieder ... (And the morning again ...), Berlin 1985
• Schöne Reise (Beautiful Trip), Berlin [u. a.] 1988
• Über Gefühle reden? (Speak about Feelings?), Berlin 1988
• Gehen Frauen in die Knie? (Does the Woman walk in the Knee?), Zürich 1990 (together with Rita Süssmuth)
• Judasfrauen, Berlin [u. a.] 1990
• Bezahlen die Frauen die Wiedervereinigung? (Do Women pay the Runification?), Munich [et al.] 1992 (together with Rita Süssmuth)
• Bimmi vom hohen Haus (Bimmi of the High Hause), Berlin 1992 (together with Cleo-Petra Kurze)
• Die Andersdenkende (The Dissenter), Munich 1994
• Das gesprungene Herz (The Sprung Heart), Munich 1995
• Die Welt da drinnen (The World here Inside), Frankfurt am Main 2003

Literature

• Alessandro Bigarelli: Ethik und Diskurs im weiblichen Schreiben am Beispiel von Helga Schuberts Geschichten (Ethics and Discourse in the Female Writer on the Example of Helga Schubert's History), Frankfurt a. M., Lang, 1998.

External links

• Literature by and about Helga Schubert in the German National Library catalogue
• Author Circle of Germany - Schubert page (German)