Dagmar of Mutius

Dagmar von Mutius (born October 17, 1919 in Oslo ; † November 5, 2008 in Heidelberg ) was a German writer .

Life

Dagmar von Mutius came from the noble family von Mutius . Her parents were the diplomat Gerhard von Mutius and Marie, née von Bethmann . Because of her father's job, Dagmar von Mutius spent her childhood and youth abroad. She lived in Oslo , Copenhagen , Bucharest and later in Berlin and on the family estate in Gellenau in the County of Glatz , which she took over management during the Second World War and which she had to leave in 1946 after expropriation and forced labor.

Since she got to know flight and expulsion from her own experience, these topics, which she deals with without assigning blame or complaint, play a prominent role in her works. The grief over the loss of family property and home is borne by the will to reconcile and the desire for a peaceful future. In 1963 she received the Eichendorff Prize for Literature for the autobiographical work Weather Lights , in which she describes the fate of some Germans who stayed behind in her Silesian homeland .

Your literary estate is kept in the Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien, Würzburg.

Awards

1963 Eichendorff Literature Prize
1965 Honorary gift of the Andreas Gryphius Prize
1967 Prize from the Hermann Sudermann Foundation
1973 Radio play and storytelling award from the East German Cultural Council Foundation
1987 Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (April 2, 1987)
1988 Special Prize for the Silesian Culture Prize of the State of Lower Saxony
1990 Pro arte medal from the Esslingen Artists' Guild

Works

Weather lights. Chronicle of a Silesian Province 1945/46 . Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1961. (3rd edition: Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Würzburg 1988, ISBN 3-87057-111-X .)
Border routes . Publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1963.
Change of game . Publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1966.
Hideout without stop . Werner Jerratsch publishing house, Heidenheim / Brenz 1975.
Invitation to an old house . Werner Jerratsch publishing house, Heidenheim / Brenz 1980, ISBN 3-921519-40-3 .
Outside the night wind . Bergstadtverlag Korn, Würzburg 1985, ISBN 3-87057-105-5 .
Lessons of silence . Bergstadtverlag Korn, Würzburg 1989.
Visit on the edge of days . Bergstadtverlag Korn, Würzburg 1994.
Eleonore Haugwitz ( pseudonym ): 1945/46 on an estate in the County of Glatz . In: My homeland Silesia . Weltbild-Verlag, Augsburg 1990, ISBN 3-7844-1910-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Office of the Federal President

personal data
SURNAME	Mutius, Dagmar of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 17, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oslo
DATE OF DEATH	November 5, 2008
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] Office of the Federal President