Emmy Duke

Emmy Herzog (born April 13, 1903 in Ludwigsdorf , Upper Silesia , † August 30, 2009 in Münster ) was a German author .

Life

Emmy Herzog, widowed Steinweg, née Bogatzki, spent her childhood and youth in Katowice . In 1921 the family moved to Berlin and later to Münster . Here she initially worked in a department store, but soon gave up the job to take care of her mother. In 1924 she met her future husband, the enthusiastic motorcycle racing driver Leo Steinweg , in whose business she was also active. In 1938 her husband emigrated to the Netherlands , and Emmy Herzog followed him in 1939. Even after her husband was deported to Auschwitz in 1942 (he later died on the way to Flossenbürg ), she initially stayed in the Netherlands. In 1950 she returned to Münster, where she married her second husband Eugen Herzog († 1973) in 1953. The Herzog couple had been running a tobacco shop in Münster since 1956.

In 1999, at the age of 96, Emmy Herzog began to write down her life story, especially her memories of Leo Steinweg. The book was published in 2000 under the title "Leben mit Leo" (2nd edition 2004). In 2003, the WDR dedicated an article to her in the series “Menschen hautnah” under the title “Emmy - 100 Years Never Lovesickness”.

In 2006 (at the age of 103) her second book was published, the novel “Bunte Zeiten”, which processes biographical experiences in the form of four fictional biographies. At that time, Emmy Herzog was the oldest female author in Germany.

When she died at the age of 106, she was the oldest inhabitant of the city of Münster.

Works

• Living with Leo, Münster 2000, 2nd edition Münster 2004
• Colorful Times, Münster 2006

Web links

• Literature by and about Emmy Herzog in the catalog of the German National Library
• Emmy Herzog in the Internet Movie Database (English)