Helga Königsdorf
Helga Königsdorf was an East German author and physicist.Life
She was born in Gera, a farmer's daughter. She went into academia and was appointed to the East Berlin Academy of Sciences of the GDR from 1961 to 1990. Since 1974, she headed the Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. At age 40, she published her first short-story collection Meine ungehörigen Träume.
Her writing peers included Christa Wolf, Brigitte Reimann and Maxie Wander, who worked on woman's rights issues in the GDR in the 70s and 80s. In 1990 she left academia to devote herself to writing full-time. Helga suffered from Parkinson's disease for more than 30 years.Awards
Fiction
- Meine ungehörigen Träume, Aufbau-Verlag
- Der Lauf der Dinge, Aufbau-Verlag
- Respektloser Umgang, Aufbau-Verlag
- Lichtverhältnisse, Aufbau-Verlag
- Ungelegener Befund, Aufbau-Verlag
- Adieu DDR
- Gleich neben Afrika, Rowohlt Berlin Verlag
- Im Schatten des Regenbogens, Aufbau-Verlag
- Über die unverzügliche Rettung der Welt, Aufbau-Verlag
- Die Entsorgung der Großmutter, Aufbau-Verlag
- Landschaft in wechselndem Licht, Aufbau-Verlag
Math
- Helga Bunke: Gewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen mit zufälligen Parametern. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972.
- Olaf Bunke, Helga Bunke : Statistical methods of model building. Berlin 1986.
- Olaf Bunke, Helga Bunke : Nonlinear regression, functional relations and robust methods. 2 Bände, New York 1989.
English translations
Few of her fiction works have been translated into English. Fission was published by Northwestern University Press.
