Jutta Heinrich

Jutta Heinrich (born in Berlin – in Hamburg) was a German feminist writer.

Biography Jutta Heinrich was born on in Berlin. She grew up in Bavaria, attended primary and secondary school and then worked in various wholesale and retail businesses. She was the daughter of a lawyer, entrepreneur and artist by training, whose veneer and plywood factory she ran for a time.

After obtaining her Abitur (A-levels), she studied social pedagogy at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences from 1972 and German literature and studies at the University of Hamburg from 1975.

Alongside her studies, she began to publish literary works. In 1987, she took part in the Festival of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt. From 1988, she was a lecturer in literature, politics and history at the universities of Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin. In 2005, she was invited to take part in a conference at the Berlin University of the Arts. Heinrich lives in Hamburg. She is also a member of the board of the Kulturstiftung in Lower Saxony.

Analysis of her works Jutta Heinrich wrote prose, essays, plays and radio drama. Her book Das Geschlecht der Gedanken is regarded as a feminist essay in which she argues for the legitimacy and value of the female sex, not only independently of the male sex, but above all against the male principle. Several books have been based on her theses. She began writing the book in 1966, but at the time it was unthinkable for publishers to allow a woman to publish suchan radical essay. So she had to wait until 1977 to publish it .

Commenting on the publication of Jutta Heinrich's Das Geschlecht der Gedanken, Lottemie Doormann wrote:

She was not the only one to react. The newspaper Die Zeit wrote that it was the victim's revenge, while Der Spiegel mentioned a book about "dead souls". Professor Renate Möhrmann wrote in the . One of the most exciting, poetic and precise books on the interaction between oppression and violence. Finally, author Jürgen Strasser wrote for the PEN-Zentrum, of which Jutta Heinrich has been a member since 1999: "She has been an important pioneer of feminism and has often challenged traditional roles with a sharp mind".

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