Half a life’s work was completed for her, as she stood in front of the wrapped Reichstag, “in the green of the meadow like a frozen waterfall. Or a giant diamond fallen from all heavens, bulky in size, delicate in cut and in the contours”. She had studied German, in Kiel with Erich Trunz, in Munich with Hermann Kunisch, and did her doctorate on Karl Kraus when nobody was doing it yet. With a hitchhiker she drove to Hamburg once to see Will Quadflieg and of course Gründgens in “Faust”, so it was inevitable that she would eventually go to the Time came. Nevertheless, Petra Kipphoff was not a higher daughter, but a real Hamburg merchant’s daughter; her father had his office on Kattrepel right next to the press building.
Obituary for the art critic Petra Kipphoff – Culture
