Huch, Ricarda

Ricarda Huch was born in Braunschweig on 18 July 1864. The writer, poet, philosopher and historian was culturally at home in many places. She was one of the first women to gain a doctorate in philosophy in Zurich. She first worked in the city library, then as a teacher at the municipal lyceum in Zurich, and later in Bremen. Married twice, both marriages ended in divorce. She had one daughter. In Munich, where she became an honorary senator, Huch made her first contacts with the women's movement, with whose pioneers she corresponded. The author lived in Berlin from 1927 to 1932. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, she resigned from the Prussian Academy of Arts in protest against the growing sympathy for the National Socialists. From 1934, the author lived with her daughter and her husband Franz Böhm in Freiburg and Jena. She died on 17 November 1947 in Schönberg im Taunus. Her grave of honour is in Frankfurt's main cemetery.