Karla Höcker

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Karla Alexandra Höcker (1 September 1901 – 15 October 1992)[1] (also used the pseudonym Christiana Rautter[2]) was a German writer and musician.

Biography[]

Karla Höcker's father Paul Oskar Höcker was already a best-selling author when Karla was born, in Charlottenburg. Her grandfather, Oskar Höcker, and her great-uncle, Gustav Höcker, were likewise writers. Karla was initially trained as a musician; she studied at the Berliner Musikhochschule and became a musical director. Soon, however, she began to work as a writer, especially after her father fell ill and she had to assist him.[3] She worked as a journalist and a writer about music, before becoming a professor of music in Berlin. She received an honorary degree in 1977.[4]

In the 1920s and 1930s, she was a member of the , a circle of architects, musicians, writers, and other artists and intellectuals; the nucleus of the Bornimer Kreis consisted of landscape architects Karl Foerster, , and Herta Hammerbacher. Members included pianist and composer Wilhelm Kempff, conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwängler (whom Höcker later went on tour with), and architects Otto Bartning and Hans Poelzig.[5]

She spent World War II in Berlin, and published a war memoir, Beschreibung eines Jahres: Berliner Notizen 1945, in which she noted, with surprise, that the Red Army did not kill or deport the majority of the civilian population,[6] and, like other authors of the period, spoke of how Berlin in 1945 and 1946 was felt to be in an "in-between" time.[7] After the war, she became friends with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, one of the greatest Lieder performers of the post-war period, and later collaborated with him in his writings.[8]

Works[]

Höcker wrote novels and biographies of artists and musicians, and did interviews for German radio.[9] She published some of those interviews in Gespraeche mit Berliner Kuenstlern ("Conversations with Berlin artists").

Books authored (selection)[]

  • Erlebnis in Florenz. Novel. Velhagen & Klasings Feldpost-Lesebogen, without Nr., Bielefeld 1943[10]
  • Gespräche mit Berliner Künstlern. Stapp, 1964
  • Die letzten und die ersten Tage: Berliner Aufzeichnungen 1945. Hessling, 1966.
  • Johannes Brahms: Begegnung mit dem Menschen. Mit 79 zeitgenössischen Bildern, Notenbeispielen und Dokumenten. (Introduction by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau). Klopp, 1983
  • Beschreibung eines Jahres: Berliner Notizen 1945. Arani, Berlin 1984.[11]
  • Franz Schubert in seiner Welt. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, München 1984. ISBN 978-3-423-07946-4

References[]

  1. ^ Jochens, Birgit; Sonja Miltenberger; Claudia Schoppmann (1999). Zwischen Rebellion und Reform: Frauen im Berliner Westen. Jaron. p. 100. ISBN 978-3-89773-003-8. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
  2. ^ Schulz, Eckhard. "Höcker, Paul Oskar". Neue Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
  3. ^ Neue Deutsche Biographie Vol. 9. Duncker & Humblot. 2003. p. 305.
  4. ^ "Höcker, Karla Alexandra". Berlin ehrt Persönlichkeiten. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
  5. ^ Go, Jeong-Hi (2006). Herta Hammerbacher: (1900–1985) : Virtuosin der Neuen Landschaftlichkeit – der Garten als Paradigma. Univerlagtuberlin. p. 26. ISBN 978-3-7983-2013-0.
  6. ^ Grossman, Atina (2003). "Trauma, Memory, and Motherhood". In Richard Bessel, Dirk Schumann (ed.). Life after death: approaches to a cultural and social history of Europe during the 1940s and 1950s. Cambridge UP. pp. 93–128. ISBN 978-0-521-00922-5. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
  7. ^ Grossman, Atina (2009). Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany. Princeton UP. pp. 272 n.7. ISBN 978-0-691-14317-0.
  8. ^ Neunzig, Hans Adolf (1998). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: a biography. Hal Leonard. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-57467-035-6.
  9. ^ "Literaturarchiv: Karla Höcker Archiv". Akademie der Künste. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
  10. ^ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart meets Thomas Linley the younger in Firenze 1770–71
  11. ^ Guenther, Irene (2004). Nazi chic?: fashioning women in the Third Reich. Berg. pp. 433 n.563. ISBN 978-1-85973-717-0.

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