Heike Schmitz

lives in Berlin and Harøy, Norway

Writer

 

Heike Schmitz studied German language and literature, psychology and sociology at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She worked there for several years as a research assistant. With a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, she wrote a doctoral thesis on selected works by Bachmann and Lispector in connection with mystical ways of thinking. After completing her doctorate, she lived in Berlin as a freelance author and lecturer in German and was a temporary fellow of the Friedrich Nietzsche Centre in Weimar. For several years, she dealt with the (after-)effects of war and National Socialism on children and grandchildren. With her book “Unsereiner Kriegsundführerkinder” (Our Children of War and Leaders), she published a literary answer to the questions of transgenerational transmission. In collaboration with the sculptor and graphic artist Herbert Eugen Wiegand, she has published a “scroll book” titled “SJØ-LAND” with the publisher “round not square”. She lives in Berlin and on the Norwegian island of Harøy.

© Heike Schmitz
© Heike Schmitz

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