Elisabeth Soffé

Elisabeth Soffé (born March 15, 1888 in Brno , † February 28, 1966 in Salzburg ) was a German-Moravian , Czechoslovak and Austrian writer .

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She was born as the daughter of the literary historian Emil Soffé , graduated in 1906 and taught in Brno from 1908 to 1938, most recently as a specialist teacher at a community school . The writing activity began with the publication of travel reports , poems and essays in various newspapers and magazines. From 1938 she was a freelance writer. After her expulsion , she came to Salzburg, where she briefly worked as a secondary school teacher , but mostly as an author. She was a member of the Writers 'Association for Moravia and Silesia as well as the Eichendorff Society and the Innviertel Artists' Guild .

Wilhelm Kosch : Literature Lexicon , Volume 18 (1998)
Richard Zimprich: The Brno poet Elisabeth Soffé , in: Sudetendeutscher Kulturalmanach (1963)
Elisabeth Soffé, in: Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Countries , published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum by Hans Lemberg , Ralph Melville , Helmut Slapnicka , Volume IV, 2nd delivery, Munich 2005

personal data
SURNAME	Soffé, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Moravian-Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brno
DATE OF DEATH	February 28, 1966
Place of death	Salzburg