Ute Erb

| birth_place = Scherbach (Rheinbach), Köln-Aachen, Germany | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist
poet
translator
kommune 1 activist | party = SPD
SEW | known_for = | alma_mater = | spouse = 1. Michael Pampuch
2. Hermann Schürrer (1928–1986) | father = Ewald Erb (1903–1978) }}

Ute Erb (born 25 December 1940) is a German writer, poet and translator. She grew up in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany); but when she was 16 she escaped illegally to the west, without telling her parents, and ended up living in Cologne "with friends". She was driven to it, as she later explained, "by a homesickness for a Germany that simply did not exist". It would not be the last time she would display a well-honed rebellious streak. Provided by Wikipedia