Author and literary scholar
“The intellectual life of the Federal Republic co-shaped”: Inge Jens is dead
Inge Jens (archive picture from 2017) died at the age of 94
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The literary scholar Inge Jens has died. She was 94 years old. Your publishing house praised Walter Jens’ wife as a “great author”.
The literary scholar Inge Jens is dead. According to her son, Christoph Jens, she died on Thursday at the age of 94. She fell asleep peacefully. Inge Jens was the wife of the Tübingen rhetoric professor Walter Jens, who died in 2013.
“We say goodbye to a great author who has shaped the intellectual life of the Federal Republic in many ways with her books and lectures,” said a statement from Rowohlt Verlag on Friday.
Inge Jens: burial next to her husband
As can be seen from the communication from their son, Inge Jens will be buried next to her husband Walter Jens in the honorary grave of the Tübingen city cemetery.
Inge Jens studied at the Universities of Hamburg and Tübingen. Later she also worked as a lecturer at the University of Tübingen. Inge Jens’s scientific and journalistic commitment is complemented by civil society. Together with her husband Walter, Inge Jens became a figurehead of the peace movement in the 80s. In 1984 she took part in sit-ins in front of the Mutlangen nuclear weapons depot (Ostalbkreis). During the Gulf War in 1990, the couple hid deserted US soldiers in their house and were tried for aiding and abetting deserters.