Adele Gerhard

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Adele Gerhard , née Adele de Jonge , (born June 8, 1868 in Cologne ; † May 10, 1956 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Adele de Jonge was the daughter of the Jewish businessman Adolph de Jonge and his wife Caroline, née Hess (from the family of a Cologne sugar manufacturer). She spent her youth in Cologne, where she was born in Hohe Pforte No. 17 and later attended a secondary school for girls . After her marriage to the judiciary and notary Stephan Gerhard, Adele Gerhard moved to Berlin with her husband in 1889 . Their daughter Melitta (later a literary historian) was born in 1891 and their son Dietrich was born in 1896. In Berlin, Adele Gerhard cultivated contacts with the workers' and women's movement and was committed to the cooperative idea . She was a founding member of the " Society for Ethical Culture ". In addition to her writings on the cooperative issue and the problem of working mothers , Adele Gerhard had already published works of fiction since the 1990s ; from 1901 she was mainly active as a writer .

Adele Gerhard's literary work consists mainly of novels and short stories . The works published until 1917 deal with social problems, the fate of women and families and are influenced by naturalism . After that, Gerhard increasingly used a symbolist narrative style to express her religious-philosophical world of thought; stylistically, it moved closer to Expressionism during the 1920s .

With the beginning of the Third Reich , Adele Gerhard was exposed to repression by government agencies , even though she had converted to Protestantism with her children in 1911 . After her husband died in 1936, she followed her children into American exile in 1938 . Since the author had only a limited readership in Germany in her final years , her works in German in the United States remained unpublished. Adele Gerhard returned to Germany in 1955 and lived in Cologne again. She died at the age of 87 in her apartment in Cologne-Nippes .

Her estate is in the German Literature Archives in Marbach and in the Archives of the State University of New York in Albany .

Works

  • Consumer cooperative and social democracy , Nuremberg 1895
  • Confession , Berlin 1899
  • with Helene Simon : Motherhood and intellectual work , Berlin 1901
  • Pilgrimage , Berlin 1902
  • The story of Antonie van Heese , Braunschweig 1906
  • The Vanderhouten family , Berlin 1909
  • Encounter and other short stories , Leipzig 1912
  • On sinking and becoming , Berlin 1912
  • Magdalis Heimroth's ordeal , Berlin 1913
  • The Ring of the Living , Braunschweig [u. a.] 1915
  • At the old ditch , Berlin 1917
  • Language of the Earth , Berlin 1918
  • Lorelyn , Leipzig 1920
  • Path and Law , Chemnitz 1924
  • Pflüger , Leipzig 1925
  • Via Sacra , Berlin 1928
  • The hand of God , Leipzig 1929
  • The picture of my life , Wuppertal 1948

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Death certificate no. 592 from May 11, 1956, registry office Cologne Nippes. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gerhard, Adele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jonge, Adele de (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1956
Place of death Cologne