Jutta Heinrich Explained

Jutta Heinrich
Birth Date:April 4, 1940
Death Date:July 23, 2021 (aged 81)
Occupation:writer.
Notable Works:Das Geschlecht des Gedankens
Birth Place:Berlin
Death Place:Hamburg
Nationality:German
Language:German

Jutta Heinrich (born 4 April 1940 in Berlin - in Hamburg) was a German feminist writer.

Biography

Jutta Heinrich was born on 4 April 1940 in Berlin. She grew up in Bavaria, attended primary and secondary school and then worked in various wholesale and retail businesses. She was the daughter of a lawyer, entrepreneur and artist by training, whose veneer and plywood factory she ran for a time.[1]

After obtaining her Abitur (A-levels), she studied social pedagogy at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences from 1972[2] and German literature and studies at the University of Hamburg from 1975[2].[2]

Alongside her studies, she began to publish literary works. In 1987, she took part in the Festival of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt. From 1988, she was a lecturer in literature, politics and history at the universities of Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin. In 2005, she was invited to take part in a conference at the Berlin University of the Arts. Heinrich lives in Hamburg. She is also a member of the board of the Kulturstiftung in Lower Saxony.

She has been a member of the PEN Centre Germany since 1998. In addition to various scholarships, she was awarded the Würzburg Literature Prize in 1989 and the Biermann-Ratjen Medal (de) in 2017.[3] [4]

Analysis of her works

Jutta Heinrich wrote prose, essays, plays and radio drama. Her book Das Geschlecht der Gedanken is regarded as a feminist essay in which she argues for the legitimacy and value of the female sex, not only independently of the male sex, but above all against the male principle. Several books have been based on her theses.[5] [6] She began writing the book in 1966, but at the time it was unthinkable for publishers to allow a woman to publish suchan radical essay. So she had to wait until 1977 to publish it [3].[7]

Commenting on the publication of Jutta Heinrich's Das Geschlecht der Gedanken, Lottemie Doormann wrote:[8]

She was not the only one to react. The newspaper Die Zeit wrote that it was the victim's revenge, while Der Spiegel mentionned a book about "dead souls". Professor Renate Möhrmann wrote in the . One of the most exciting, poetic and precise books on the interaction between oppression and violence. Finally, author Jürgen Strasser wrote for the PEN-Zentrum, of which Jutta Heinrich has been a member since 1999: "She has been an important pioneer of feminism and has often challenged traditional roles with a sharp mind".[9]

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Notes and References

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  2. Web site: Jutta Heinrich . 1 January 2023 . S. Fischer Verlage . de. .
  3. Web site: 12 January 2023 . Jutta Heinrich erhält die Senator-Biermann-Ratjen-Medaille . hamburg.de . de. .
  4. Web site: 9 November 2017 . Biermann-Ratjen-Medaille für Jutta Heinrich . 12 January 2023 . www.abendblatt.de . Hamburger Abendblatt. .
  5. Book: Eidukevičienė . Jenseits des Geschlechterkampfes : traditionelle Aspekte des Frauenbildes in der Prosa von Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Gabriele Wohmann und Brigitte Kronauer . 2003 . Röhrig Universitätsverlag . 978-3-86110-345-5 . 53332224.
  6. Book: Di Lenardi, Andreas . Gewalt ausübende Frauenfiguren in der neueren deutschen Frauenliteratur am Beispiel von Jutta Heinrichs Roman Das Geschlecht der Gedanken Eine interdisziplinäre Werkinterpretation und Diskursanalyse . 2015 . 978-3-7386-9631-8 . 904829855.
  7. News: Schellen . Petra . 31 July 2021 . Feministische Kämpferin gestorben: Rebellin wider den Zeitgeist . 10 January 2023 . Die Tageszeitung: taz . de . 0931-9085. .
  8. Book: Spooren, Dagmar . Unbequeme Töchter, entthronte Patriarchen : deutschsprachige Bücher über Väter von Autorinnen . 2001 . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag . 978-3-663-09070-0 . de . 1112389735.
  9. News: Schellen . 31 July 2021 . Feministische Kämpferin gestorben: Rebellin wider den Zeitgeist . live . Die Tageszeitung: taz . de . 0931-9085. .

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