Helga Schubert

Helga Schubert, born in Berlin in 1940, studied psychology at Humboldt University in Berlin and worked as a psychotherapist (until 1987) and as a writer. Since the mid-1970s, she has mainly published short prose, but also radio plays, theatre plays, film scripts, documentary works, essays, columns and children’s books. In 1980, Schubert was invited to read at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt, but was not granted an exit permit from the GDR; the same ban prevented her from receiving the Hans Fallada Prize from the city of Neumünster, which had been awarded to her as early as 1983 but was not presented until ten years later. From 1987 to 1990, Helga Schubert was a member of the jury for the Bachmann Prize – and, thirty years later, she did indeed read as an author and won the 2020 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize with her text Vom Aufstehen. The collection of short stories of the same name was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize one year later.

Vom Aufstehen. Ein Leben in Geschichten
Munich, 2021

Judasfrauen. Zehn Fallgeschichten weiblicher Denunziation im Dritten Reich
Munich, 2021

Lauter Leben. Erzählungen
Munich, 2022

Der heutige Tag. Ein Stundenbuch der Liebe
Munich, 2023

Luft zum Leben. Geschichten vom Übergang
Munich, 2025