Clara von Arnim

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Clara von Arnim (born von Hagens; born September 14, 1909 in Kassel , † May 17, 2009 in Idar-Oberstein ) was a German author.

Life

Clara von Arnim was on 14 September 1909 in Kassel, the daughter of the late Court of Appeal President Walter von Hagens was born, and his wife Ilse Ratjen. After graduating from high school, she first began studying law, but then trained as a physiotherapist with Hede Teirich-Leube, among others . On September 19, 1930, she married the great-grandson Achim and Bettina von Arnim , Herr auf Wiepersdorf, Bärwalde and Zernikow, Friedmund Ernst Freiherr von Arnim (1897–1946) in Berlin . She lived in Zernikow with her husband and children. Her mother-in-law Agnes geb. from Baumbach in Wiepersdorf. After the end of the Second World War , the family was “expropriated without compensation” as landowners. Clara von Arnim fled to the West with her 6 children in 1945. Although her husband was not a soldier and the war was already officially over, her husband was deported to the Soviet Union in 1945, where he died on January 13, 1946 in a prisoner-of-war camp in Tula. Frau von Arnim built in 1947/48 in Kupfer near Schwäb. Hall a settlement house. From there she worked in her learned profession as a physiotherapist in Schwäbisch Hall, among others, and was then temporarily director of the private boarding school and grammar school Birklehof in Hinterzarten. Later she worked again as a physiotherapist in Eschborn am Taunus and in Kronberg im Taunus. At the age of 81 she began to write down her memories of her experiences as a landlady in the Brandenburg region. Her first, very successful book, "The Green Tree of Life" was published in 1998 and spanned the time from her wedding in 1930 to her flight from Gut Zernikow in 1945. Clara von Arnim died on May 17, 2009 at the age of 99 in Idar-Oberstein and was buried in the cemetery of the village church in Zernikow.

Works

  • The green tree of life, new edition 2013, Verlag der Kunst Dresden.
  • The colorful ribbon of life, Droemer 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ date of birth and -place
personal data
SURNAME Arnim, Clara von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagens, Clara von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2009
Place of death Idar-Oberstein