Emma Aberle

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Emma Aberle (born November 16, 1886 in Botnang ; † December 3, 1949 there ) was a German writer and poet .

Life

Emma Aberle was one of four children, her father died early. Her two brothers moved away from Botnang. She lived with her sister for life in the house where she was born at 25 Alte Stuttgarter Strasse . After graduating from school, she worked in the Stuttgart paper mill Eugen Lemppenau , which was founded in 1860, where she began as an unskilled worker and rose to directrice .

She bought books and immersed herself in the German classics, through which she acquired her literary education on an autodidactic basis. Aberle joined the Botnang artist group "Zirkel", which met regularly in the café that Hermann Dürr opened in February 1914. This also included the painter Hermann Umgelter . She was also a member of the Swabian Schiller Club .

In 1915 she began to publish her own works in her spare time, mostly in local periodicals . During the First World War she worked as a hospital assistant. The writer Christian Wagner , with whom she exchanged letters, was particularly admired on her part . On the occasion of his death in 1918, she dedicated a requiem to him , which was published in 1924.

In the post-war period she took on the care of female prisoners . Some sources state that she also worked as a seamstress.

Works (selection)

  • Sayings. Hugo Dittmar, Stuttgart 1920.
  • Requiem for Christian Wagner. Georg Ebinger, Stuttgart 1924.
  • From my soul. Fantasies and images. Georg Ebinger, Stuttgart / Commission: Ed. Schmidt, Leipzig 1924.
  • Animal stories and fairy tales. Elsbeth Stockmayer. Ludwigsburg undated

literature

  • Kurt Haering: On the death of Emma Aberle. Obituary in the Stuttgarter Zeitung , No. 5 (1949), p. 250.
  • Aberle, Emma. In: Heinrich Ihme: Southwest German personalities. A guide to bibliographies and biographical compilations. Vol. 1 [ T. Abbt - Kübler ]. Kohlhammer, 1988. ISBN 3-1701-0288-5
  • Aberle, Emma. In: Hans-Gert Roloff (Hrsg.): The German literature. Series VI: Die Deutsche Literatur from 1890 to 1990. Peter Lang, 1991, p. 49. ISBN 978-3-7728-1860-8
  • Emma-Aberle-Weg. In: Titus Häussermann: The Stuttgart street names. Silberburg-Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, p. 162. ISBN 3-8740-7549-4

Honors

Emma-Aberle- Staffel , Botnang

The Emma-Aberle-Weg was named after her in 1980 in what is now the Botnang district of Stuttgart . The term Emma-Aberle- Staffel is derived from this for the staircase leading from Emma-Aberle-Weg up to Vaihinger Landstrasse .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c T. Häussermann: The Stuttgart street names. (see section Literature )
  2. ↑ a b Werner Rösener : Communication in rural society from the Middle Ages to modern times. (= Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 156). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, p. 393. ISBN 3-525-35472-X
  3. ^ Nineteenth Annual Accountability Report. Swabian Schiller Club, 1915, pp. 15, 35.
  4. ↑ Thirty-second statement of accounts for the year. Swabian Schiller Club, 1928, pp. 16, 37.
  5. ↑ a b H.-G. Roloff: Die Deutsche Literatur from 1890 to 1990. (see section literature )
  6. ↑ Christian Wagner: A piece of eternal life. A reader, a selection of works. Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag, 2015, p. 332. ISBN 3-8635-1252-9
personal data
SURNAME Aberle, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Botnang
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1949
Place of death Botnang