Anna Hilaria Preuss

Anna Hilaria Preuss (born January 26, 1873 in Trieste as Anna Hilaria von Eckhel, † October 30, 1948 in Eisenach ) was a German writer .

Life

Anna Hilaria von Eckhel was born in Trieste as the daughter of the merchant Johann Georg von Eckhel and a country nobility . Her father aroused her artistic interest in childhood. She first received home tuition before she was taught as an external student at the Notre Dame de Sion monastery . In 1906 she married Julius Preuß, with whom she moved to Oeynhausen that same year. Two years later, the Preuss couple moved to Eisenach, where Julius Preuss had got a job as a high school teacher . Preuss lived there until her death in 1948.

Act

She published her writings mostly under her maiden name Anna Hilaria von Eckhel. She wrote her first works around 1900. Thematically, she dealt in an entertaining way with the mother role of women, the barren landscape of her homeland and the people living there. She also wrote poems about Eisenach and promoted the painter Erich Windbichler . Some of their writings were colored nationalistically .

Works

• In the Karst , Dresden 1904
• Nanni Gschaftlhuber , Breslau [a. a.] 1919
• Between waves and stones , Breslau 1920
• Under the hammer of time , Breslau [u. a.] 1921
• On the bilge ride of life. Diary of a wandering bird , Breslau [u. a.] 1922
• Around a string quartet , Breslau 1924
• Swanhild , Breslau 1925
• The seven vultures , Breslau 1928
• The Kingdoms of Trine Hansen , Breslau 1929
• The Frohmeier family , Breslau 1933
• Carinthian diary , Breslau 1934
• Under the Mirabelle tree , Breslau 1939

swell

• Urania cultural and educational association Gotha eV (Ed.): Eisenacher personalities . A biographical lexicon. RhinoVerlag, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-932081-45-5 , p. 108 f .

Web links

• Literature by and about Anna Hilaria von Preuss in the catalog of the German National Library