Emma Goslar

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Emma Goslar (born May 23, 1848 in Hornburg near Wolfenbüttel as Eva Friederike Louise Amalie Bernthal; † April 23, 1923 in Siegen ) was a Westphalian native writer. She lived in Elberfeld and Siegen as a piano and singing teacher as well as a lecturer. She died in Siegen on April 26, 1923.

Life

Emma Goslar was a Jewish German. Through her marriage she came to Siegen, where she had a clothes shop, also gave piano and singing lessons and also performed as a lecturer until her death in 1923. She published several volumes of poetry and her poems appeared regularly in the Siegen local press. A festival in two acts and a hymn to the German emperor show them as German national. After the war she wrote elegiac poems and homeland poetry, stayed in bourgeois-folk contexts and "donated", as it was called, for example for the Sedan celebration of the Siegener Stahlhelm. Bund der Frontsoldaten 1921 a poem. In Siegen she was known as a quick supplier of all kinds of festive poems.

Her son was the church musician Julio Goslar .

Works

  • Under palm trees. Poems. Siegen: self-published in 1905
  • In the storm and sunshine. Poems. Detmold 1909

Independent publication in the Siegener Zeitung (selection)

  • Siegener Ztg. Vol. 92, 1914, No. 183: Fresh to fight!
  • Siegener Ztg. Vol. 93, 1915, No. 13: The young mother;
  • Siegener Ztg. Vol. 93, 1915, No. 117: Germany above everything. A festival in two acts

Secondary literature

  • Festive poems of all kinds are delivered quickly. Emma Goslar, in: Siegener Ztg. 91, 1913, No. 47
  • Heisener, Kornelia Title Emma Goslar Subtitle (1849-1922) Year 1996 Origin In: In the footsteps of the Siegenerinnen / Ed. Of the Women's Council of the University of Siegen. - Siegen, 1996. - pp. 66-68: Ill.
  • B [...] A [...]: How I became a spring poet, chapter: A feature section that deals with the work of our local poet, Mrs. Emma Goslar, in: Siegener Ztg. 82, 1904, no. 133
  • Karl Heinz Gramss: A shocking fate full of tragedy: Julio Goslar, in Siegener edition of May 6, 1982 [about her son]
  • Jewish literature in Westphalia (PDF file; 188 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegener Zeitung, September 5, 1921.
personal data
SURNAME Goslar, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernthal, Eva Friederike Louise Amalie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Westphalian native writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Hornburg near Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1923
Place of death Wins