Helga Königsdorf

Königsdorf in 1987

Helga Königsdorf (July 13, 1938 – May 4, 2014) was an East German author and physicist.[1][2][3]

Life

She was born as Helga Bunke in Gera, a farmer's daughter.[1] She went into academia and was appointed to the East Berlin Academy of Sciences of the GDR from 1961 to 1990.[2] Since 1974, she headed the Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. At age 40, she published her first short-story collection Meine ungehörigen Träume ("My Indecent Dreams").[1]

Her writing peers included Christa Wolf, Brigitte Reimann and Maxie Wander, who worked on woman's rights issues in the GDR in the 70s and 80s.[1] In 1990 she left academia to devote herself to writing full-time. Helga suffered from Parkinson's disease for more than 30 years.[1]

Awards

Works

Fiction

Math

English translations

Few of her fiction works have been translated into English. Fission was published by Northwestern University Press.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Schriftstellerin Helga Königsdorf ist tot". Die Zeit (in German). 5 May 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Professorin und Publizistin: DDR-Schriftstellerin Helga Königsdorf ist tot". Der Spiegel (in German). 5 May 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
  3. "Schriftstellerin Helga Königsdorf mit 75 gestorben". Freie Presse (in German). 5 May 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
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