Karla Alexandra Höcker (1 September 1901 – 15 October 1992)[1] (also used the pseudonym Christiana Rautter[2]) was a German writer and musician.
Karla was initially trained as a musician; she studied at the Berliner Musikhochschule and became a musical director.
[4] In the 1920s and 1930s, she was a member of the Bornimer Kreis, a circle of architects, musicians, writers, and other artists and intellectuals; the nucleus of the Bornimer Kreis consisted of landscape architects Karl Foerster, Hermann Mattern, and Herta Hammerbacher.
[7] After the war, she became friends with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, one of the greatest Lieder performers of the post-war period, and later collaborated with him in his writings.
[8] Höcker wrote novels and biographies of artists and musicians, and did interviews for German radio.