Gabriele Ruth Eckart

Background

Eckart, Gabriele Ruth was born on March 23, 1954 in Falkenstein, Germany. Came to the United States, 1987.

Education

Master of Arts, Humboldt University, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1993.

Career

She concluded her studies with the completion of her Staatsexamen. In 1979 she took part in a writing course at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. After publishing two collections of her own poetry and a collection of travel memoirs, her next publication was supposed to have been a collection of interviews with people in Havelland.

Small excerpts appeared in 1983 and 1984 in literature magazines in the German Democratic Republic, but the publication of the entire text, which contained numerous passages critical of relations in the German Democratic Republic, was prevented by government censorship.

The book So sehe ick die Sache was therefore published openly only in West Germany. In 1987, Eckart used a visit to the Frankfurter Buchmesse to relocate to the Federal Republic of Germany.

She remained, however, a citizen of the German Democratic Republic. In 1988 she emigrated to the United States, where she continued her studies.

In 1993 she earned her Master of Arts at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Minnesota.

She has worked as a Professor of German and Spanish at the Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau.

Achievements

• Gabriele Ruth Eckart has been listed as a noteworthy German language educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Hitchhiking: Twelve German Tales (European Women Writers)

    ( First published in East Germany in 1982 and in West Ger...)

  • Hitchhiking: Twelve German Tales (European Women Writers)

    ( First published in East Germany in 1982 and in West Ger...)

  • Sprachtraumata in den Texten Wolfgang Hilbigs (Ddr-Studien/East German Studies, Vol 10) (German Edition)

    (Wolfgang Hilbigs kritisches Sprachbewußtsein, welches in ...)

  • Der Seidelstein: Eine Novelle
  • Der gute fremde Blick: Eine (Ost)deutsche entdeckt Amerika (KiWi) (German Edition)
  • So sehe ick die Sache: Protokolle aus der DDR : Leben im havellandischen Obstanbaugebiet (KiWi) (German Edition)
  • So Sehe Ick Die Sache Protokolle Aus Der DDR

Membership

Member Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers of German, German Studies Association.

Interests

• Avocations: traveling, outdoor activities.

Connections

Daughter of Siegfried and Ruth (Reuter) est. Married Harry Winter, May 23, 1988 (divorced 1993).

Father:

Siegfried Eckart

Mother:

Ruth (Reuter) Eckart

Spouse:

Harry Winter