Elisabeth Hartenstein

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Elisabeth Hartenstein (born November 15, 1900 in Leipzig-Connewitz , † November 23, 1994 in Leipzig ) was a German writer whose cultural-historical fiction and non-fiction often dealt with horses .

Life

Elisabeth Hartenstein was the daughter of an official. She grew up in Connewitz (old Sorbian : Konowiza = "place where the horses graze"). Her relationship with horses developed early in rural Connewitz because there was a horse pond on the Mühlpleiße near her parents' house . She was ten years old when she was allowed to ride a horse for the first time. In 1910, her mother bought her a ride in a tent with a ring at the small fair in Leipzig for 50 pfennigs .

Her grandmother told her stories and encouraged the granddaughter to develop her own imagination. When she was twelve, she and a friend wrote the opera Beach Children , which her classmates performed.

After finishing school, she attended a teacher training college . However, the training did not meet their expectations. Her father took her out of the seminary and sent her to Württemberg , where she attended an agricultural school. There she was able to pursue her enthusiasm for horses and train two horses borrowed from the military and prepare them for races. She also worked as a figure skating coach. During the Second World War , she worked as a jockey on the Leipzig racecourse from 1940 to 1945 , but did not contest any races.

After the end of the war she worked for the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and published poetry in daily newspapers, among other things. From 1950 she worked as a freelancer, also for the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, and in the same year became a member of the Kulturbund . When it was reorganized in 1952, it did not stay with it. After working as a writer for several years, she joined the German Writers' Association .

In 1953 she published her first book. The last title to be published in 1989 was the book for young people, Storm between Euphrates and Tigris, in the series Exciting Telling of the New Life publishing house . Her works have been translated in Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia as well as in Great Britain, and in licensed editions in West Germany.

Works (selection)

  • With the horse through the millennia . Illustrations: Heinz Dost , New Life Publishing House , Berlin 1956.
  • The red stallion . Illustrations: Ursula Mattheuer , Prisma Verlag , Leipzig 1967.
  • A golden horse for Yuan . Illustrations: Alexander Alfs , Prisma Verlag, Leipzig 1970.
  • The shadow of Alexander . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1976.
  • Farewell to Alexander . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1982.
  • Storm between Euphrates and Tigris. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-355-00825-9 .

literature

  • Bernd Weinkauf : Pegasus is also a horse. Elisabeth Hartenstein on her 85th birthday . In: Leipziger Blätter . Issue 7, pp. 54-56.
  • Ute Tartz: Elisabeth Hartenstein . In: Women's personalities in Leipzig . February 2016 ( online ) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buying wine: Pegasus is also a horse , p. 55.
  2. Ute Tartz
  3. ↑ Buying wine, p. 55.
  4. ↑ Buying wine, p. 55.