Career
Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui comes from an entrepreneurial family in Remscheid. After the basic studies (Philosophy, History, German) in Cologne, she moved to West Berlin. A medical condition ended her studies.
Following her recuperation, she could "fulfill her desire to leave Adenauer Germany, something she had wished to do for some time."
She continued her studies in French Literature and German studies in Paris and obtained her Licence (French academic grade) at the Faculté de Lettres of the University of Montpellier.
lieutenant was not possible for her to take the necessary Agrégation ( a required competitive exam in France) for a University teaching commission because the French authorities refused to naturalize her in spite of her fulfillment of the formal admission criteria. The reason was that her research involved close contact with authors in East Germany.
She then received the naturalization and took the Agrégation. After the tenure, an academic position would continually be refused to her.
Finally, she received a position as Maître de conférences at the Jean Monnet University.
De Jauregui saw in the East German dramatist Peter Hacks the legitimate foundations of the German classics and the descendant of Goethe, Hegel and Heine. She devoted her dissertation and many essays to his creative activity. From 1975 on, she personally visited him regularly and maintained a continual correspondence until Hack"s death in 2003.