Helga M. Novak Explained

Maria Karlsdottir
Pseudonym:Helga M. Novak
Birth Date:8 September 1935
Birth Place:Berlin
Death Place:Rüdersdorf
Nationality:German, Icelandic

Helga M. Novak (pseudonym for Maria Karlsdottir; 8 September 1935 – 24 December 2013) was a German-Icelandic writer.

Novak was born in Berlin. She grew up in East Germany, studied journalism and philosophy at the University of Leipzig. She resigned from the East German Socialist Unity Party (SED) in 1957 in protest for the Soviet invasion of Hungary, which had taken place in 1956.[1]

She moved to Iceland in 1961, where she married and had two children before her divorce.

She traveled to Spain, France, and the U.S., before returning to East Germany. When her citizenship was revoked for writing and publishing critical texts, she moved between Iceland, Germany, Poland, and Bulgaria. For a short period, she was an informer ("inoffizieller Mitarbeiter") for the East German Stasi.[2] In 2004, German authorities denied her German citizenship.[3] [4] Novak died in 2013 in Berlin.[5]

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  1. Web site: Ungebunden, ungehorsam, ungezügelt. Zum Leben und Werk der Dichterin Helga M. Novak. Ulmer. Konstantin. 7 March 2014. BPB. 8 January 2020.
  2. http://bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/wer-war-wer-in-der-ddr-%2363%3B-1424.html?ID=2538 Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung
  3. Web site: Ungebunden, ungehorsam, ungezügelt. Zum Leben und Werk der Dichterin Helga M. Novak. Ulmer. Konstantin. 7 March 2014. BPB. 8 January 2020.
  4. News: Helga M. Novak Ausgebürgert, zehn Jahre vor Biermann. Rohlf. Sabine. 25 November 2013. Berliner Zeitung. 8 January 2020.
  5. Book: Kaleidoskop: Kultur, Literature, Und Grammatik. 2015. 9781305886001. Canada. 18 . Moeller . Jack . Berger . Simone . Wieden . Anja .