Alma Holgersen

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Alma Holgersen , née Ptaczek (born April 27, 1899 in Innsbruck ; † February 18, 1976 there ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Holgersen grew up in Vienna; the mother came from a Zillertal farming family, the father was a councilor at the Supreme Audit Office in Vienna. She studied music herself (with Emil Sauer , among others ), but also painted and eventually began to write. She lived as a freelance writer alternately in Vienna , Innsbruck, Alpbach and most recently in Kitzbühel. She also won several awards as a skier.

Her extensive literary work consists mainly of books for children and young people with a Christian-conservative tendency; she also wrote poems , plays and radio plays . In 1936 she received the Julius Reich Prize of the University of Vienna , the Dramatist Prize in 1937 and 1948, the City of Vienna Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Austrian State Prize for Children's Books in 1961 .

Works

  • The uprising of the children (story, Leipzig 1935)
  • The Closed Hearts (play, 1936)
  • The Miracle Worker (Leipzig 1936)
  • Two thousand meters above hell. A ski diary (Berlin 1937; under a new title 1953: Bergfrühling )
  • You have not lost sight of your servant (Roman, Berlin 1938)
  • Children's crusade (novella, Berlin 1940)
  • The golden meadows (Berlin, 1942)
  • Ride in the snow. A young girl's book (Paderborn, 1943)
  • The journey of the great-grandmother (Roman, Berlin 1943)
  • Big city legend (Vienna 1946)
  • Guide them, angels! (Stories, Berlin 1948)
  • O man where? (Novel, Einsiedeln 1948)
  • Mountain children. A story for boys and girls (Recklinghausen 1949)
  • Sky and forests roar (Roman, Innsbruck 1949)
  • The Great Journey (Vienna 1949)
  • Sursum corda (poems, Vienna 1949)
  • Berghotel (Roman, Vienna 1951)
  • Francis (Vienna 1951)
  • Rejoice every day! (Vienna 1952)
  • Toni's adventure. A story from the mountains for young girls (Vienna 1952)
  • Holidays like never before. A story for young girls (Vienna 1953)
  • Song of the Source (Roman, Vienna 1953)
  • The Book of Fatima (Vienna 1954)
  • The three shepherd children of Fatima. Story for the youth based on factual reports (Vienna 1954)
  • Three stick together (Vienna 1955)
  • The rich starve (Roman, Vienna 1955)
  • The book by La Salette (Vienna 1956)
  • The children of La Salette. Story for the youth (Vienna 1956)
  • A gate opens. Novel for young girls (Vienna 1956)
  • Robber romance (novel, Hamburg 1957)
  • The girl from Lourdes. Story for the youth (Vienna 1958)
  • Pietro writes to God (Vienna 1959)
  • Dino and the Angel (Vienna 1962)
  • Snowstorm in June (Vienna 1962)
  • Young grass in the snow (Vienna 1963)
  • Nobody is a stranger (Vienna 1963)
  • White dove in the night (Roman, Innsbruck 1963)
  • Maximilian. The Youth of the Last Knight , Tale for the Young (Vienna 1965)
  • A deer as guest (Graz 1965)
  • The Little Indian and Our Lady (Vienna 1967)
  • Thomas Seeks the Dear God (Vienna 1968)
  • Carlo and the Little Lion (Vienna 1969)
  • Black and white. »Little Rock« (book for young people, Vienna 1970)
  • Adventure in the Mountains (Vienna 1972)
  • One year with Elisabeth (Vienna 1973)
  • Little brother Kim (Vienna 1973)

literature

  • Ulrike Fritzl: The uprising of the children. The work history of the Austrian author Alma Holgersen (1899–1976) . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2012. - Full text online (PDF; 2.9 MB).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In a letter dated May 20, 1942 from Paul Zsolnay Verlag to Mr. Karl Heinrich Bischoff, it is confirmed that Holgersen's year of birth is not 1896, as can be found in some encyclopedias, but that the writer was born in 1899. From: Franz Lennartz : German writers of the 20th century in the mirror of criticism . Volume 2 ( Habe - Novak ). Kröner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 352082101X , p. 788. In: Fritzl: Der Aufstand der Kinder , p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Holgersen, Alma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ptaczek, Alma (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH 18th February 1976
Place of death innsbruck