Dorothea Hollatz

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Dorothea Marie Hollatz , pseudonym: Theo Holl (born January 20, 1900 in Stralsund as Dorothea Maß ; † December 19, 1987 in Darmstadt ) was a German writer .

Life

Dorothea Hollatz grew up in various German cities and attended the women's school in Erfurt . Here she married the constitutional law teacher Hollatz, who however died early.

In 1930 she went to Darmstadt, where she published her first work in 1931. In addition to her writing activities, she was active in telephone counseling. She published novels, short stories, books for young people and children, poems and stories. In 1960 she was awarded the Novella Prize by Bertelsmann Verlag. For her work, the German Social Services , for which she wrote and read, awarded her honorary membership.

She died in Darmstadt in 1987.

Dorothea Marie Hollatz was buried in the Darmstadt forest cemetery (grave site: R 8d 37).

Works

  • The Seeker for the Essential (1930, novel)
  • A girl goes straight ahead (1933, children's book)
  • Kilian and the Winds (1933, novel)
  • Who Among You Is Without Sin (1951, novel)
  • The cuckoo palm (1953, short story)
  • When in doubt, straight ahead (1958, youth book)
  • Love in our time (1961, anthology with other authors)
  • Was it heaven on earth? (1971, childhood memories)
  • Interim balance (1975, poems)
  • The Fifth Round or The Song of the Lark (1975, short story)
  • Only separated by a door (Roman)
  • Ditta Guinea Fowl (children's book)
  • The King Halved and Other Pre-Christmas Stories

literature

  • Hansestadt Stralsund [Hrsg.]: Women in the Stralsund city history. Stralsund, 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board at the main entrance of the Waldfriedhof Darmstadt
personal data
SURNAME Hollatz, Dorothea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maß, Dorothea (former name); Holl, Theo (pseudonym); Hollatz, Dorothea Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1987
Place of death Darmstadt