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Helga Schubert

Helga Schubert, born in 1940 in Berlin, was a psychotherapist and writer in the GDR. She had withdrawn from public literary life until she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2020 with her story ‘On Getting Up’. The eponymous volume of short stories was published by dtv in 2021 and was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. ‘This Day. A Book of Hours on Love’ was published in 2023, and in 2024, Helga Schubert was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit.

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Author events

Veranstaltung

16.05.2026
18:00 (CEST)
Grand Hotel Heiligdamm
Prof.-Dr.-Vogel-Str. 6
18209 Bad Doberan-Heiligendamm
€20.00
Veranstaltung

11.06.2026
18:00 (CEST)
A&O Shearman
Große Gallusstraße 14
60315 Frankfurt am Main