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

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 at the University of Frankfurt, the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

and the

University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Academy of Sciences'', ...

. She also studied at the

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and

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in Britain. She first came to

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom ...

as a tourist. She worked at

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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 Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart (8 July 192916 December 2010), known professionally as A. T. Q. Stewart or Tony Stewart, was a Northern Irish historian, teacher and academic, and a best-selling author on the subject of the politics of Ulster and N ...

. 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. She was a member of the

Arts Council of Northern Ireland The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Irish: ''Comhairle Ealaíon Thuaisceart Éireann'', Ulster-Scots: ''Airts Cooncil o Norlin Airlan'') is the lead development agency for the arts in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1964, as a successor to ...

until 1994 and she was appointed to the Board of the

Tyrone Guthrie Centre The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, often known as ''Annaghmakerrig'', is a residential facility for creative artists. Located at Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, County Monaghan, Ireland, it was founded in 1981. The house was the family home of theatrical dir ...

by the Arts Councils of Ireland.

Bibliography

Poetry

* ''Miranda'' (1993) * ''Tin Drum Country'' (1995) * ''Sharing Darwin'' (1999) * ''Taganrog'' (2004)

Non fiction

* ''Northern Ireland Since 1945'' * ''The British Left and Appeasement: Political Tactics or Alternative Policies?'' * ''The Northern Ireland Conflict: New Wine in Old Bottles?'' * ''The role of nationalism in the Northern Ireland conflict'' * ''Northern Ireland: The Context for Conflict and for Reconciliation''

References and sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wichert, Sabine 1942 births 2014 deaths People from Grudziądz German emigrants to Northern Ireland Writers from Belfast 20th-century poets from Northern Ireland 21st-century poets from Northern Ireland Historians from Northern Ireland Alumni of the London School of Economics Academics of Queen's University Belfast Deaths from lung cancer in Northern Ireland 20th-century women writers from Northern Ireland 21st-century women writers from Northern Ireland