Sabine Wichert

Sabine Wichert (8 June 1942 – 8 September 2014), was a German born poet and historian from Northern Ireland

Sabine Wichert
Born8 June 1942
Graudenz, West Prussia
Died8 September 2014
Belfast

Biography

Born Sabine Wichert on 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.[1][2][3][4]

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 on 8 September 2014. Wichert was cremated at Roselawn and was returned to Germany by her brothers Peter and Christian.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

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.[1][2]

Bibliography

Poetry
  • Miranda (1993)
  • Tin Drum Country (1995)
  • Sharing Darwin (1999)
  • Taganrog (2004)

Non fiction
  • Northern Ireland Since 1945

References and sources
  1. Wichert, Sabine. "Authors". Lagan Press. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  2. "OBITUARY: Sabine Wichert came as a tourist, and made NI home". Belfast News Letter. 2014-11-02. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  3. "Sabine wichert". Troubles Archive. 2014-09-08. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  4. "Obituary: Lecturer and poet Sabine Wichert fell in love with city". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. 2014-10-01. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  5. Wilson, Erin K. (2014-10-16). "Sabine Wichert, 1942-2014". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  6. "Sabine Wichert". Ricorso. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  7. Wichert, Sabine (1993-01-01). "The role of nationalism in the Northern Ireland conflict". History of European Ideas. 16 (1–3): 109–114. doi:10.1016/S0191-6599(05)80108-1. ISSN 0191-6599. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
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