Sabine Wichert


Sabine Wichert, was a German born poet and historian from Northern Ireland

Biography

Born Sabine Wichert in 8 June 1942 in Graudenz, West Prussia which is now Grudziadz, Poland, Wichert was educated in West Germany. She studied in Frankfurt, Marburg, FU Berlin and Mannheim. She also studied in Britain in the London school of Economics and Oxford. Her first introduction to Belfast was a visit to the city as a tourist.
She worked in Queen's University, Belfast from 1971 teaching history but with an interest in the visual arts. She wrote poetry about her adopted homeland and edited the work of historian ATQ Stewart.She retired in 2007. She died of lung cancer in Belfast in 8 September 2014. Wichert was cremated at Roselawn and was returned to Germany by her brothers Peter and Christian.
She was a member of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland until 1994 and she was appointed to the Board of Annaghmakerrig by the Arts Councils in Ireland.

Poetry