Anna Hofheinz-Gysin

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Anna Hofheinz-Gysin , née Anna Gysin (born March 18, 1881 in Hornberg , † November 14, 1928 in Oberprechtal ) was a German poet, pastor's wife and housewife.

Life

After elementary school in Hornberg, Anna Gysin went to the teacher training college in Freiburg im Breisgau . She worked as a teacher at the Sankt Georgen elementary school near Freiburg . In 1909 she stopped teaching for health reasons. In the same year she married the municipal vicar Rudolf Hofheinz from Müllheim . He became a Protestant pastor in the Oberprechtal in 1917. With her literary work in Alemannic dialect , she enriched the cultural life of the Prechtal community. Anna Hofheinz-Gysin died at the age of 47 after a long illness.

Works

  • The best thing about Christmas, a children's Christmas game.
  • Christmas at war, Christmas festival game.
  • Toem holy owe, Christmas wisdom and sayings in Black Forest dialect.
  • About the golden frog - a Black Forest legend
  • The sick man in autumn - a poem
  • 's Annemeile - in dialect in the book Der Schwarzwald im Spiegel deutscher Lyrik.
  • The prodigal son - lost work
  • The veil of the Zoraeid - novel

Honors

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In 1928 a memorial service was held at the University of Freiburg . In 1932, the Badische Schwarzwald-Verein and the Landesverein Badische Heimat dedicated a well between Landwassereck and Büchereck on the road connecting the Oberprechtal with the Kinzig valley to her. The design came from the Freiburg gardening director Robert Schimpf, the construction of the fountain was carried out by the Freiburg company Brenzinger & Cie. In 1997 a fountain and in 2001 the parlor in the Protestant rectory in Oberprechtal was inaugurated in her honor.

literature

  • German Biographical Yearbook. Vol. 10. 1928. List of the dead (335)
  • My home country (Badische Heimat). Vol. 16, I, pp. 23-24
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Nekrolog 1901-1935. 1936 (496)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baden Biographies NF 4, 141–142.
  2. ^ Freiburger Zeitung of October 18, 1932, No. 285, Third Evening Gazette, accessed on June 20, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Hofheinz-Gysin, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gysin, Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, pastor's wife and housewife
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Hornberg
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1928
Place of death Oberprechtal