Erika Müller-Hennig

Erika Müller-Hennig (born June 11, 1908 in Saratow , Volga as Erika Reinecke , † January 21, 1985 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Erika Müller-Hennig came from the family of a Volga German doctor and landowner . During the October Revolution , the family was expropriated and fled, first to Riga and then to Berlin . Erika Müller-Hennig later lived in the Pomeranian town of Schönwerder near Gollnow on the estate of relatives. In 1932 she married the doctor Theodor Müller-Hennig. Towards the end of the Second World War , the couple fled westwards from the advancing Red Army and settled in Henstedt near Bremen , where Theodor Müller-Hennig practiced as a doctor. 1959 Erika Müller-Hennig went to Berlin, where she at the Free University , a study of medicine recorded, from which she graduated 1967th Then she worked as a neurologist .

Erika Müller-Hennig published a number of narrative works during the Third Reich , which were largely based on experiences the author had made during her childhood and on her flight from revolutionary Russia . The volumes "Wolgakinder" ( total print run up to 1943: 200,000 copies) and "Wolgakinder im Baltenland" ( total print run up to 1944: 125,000 copies) were particularly successful by the Nazi publishing house "Junge Generation" . Because of their anti-communist tendency, Erika Müller-Hennig's works were on the " list of literature to be sorted out " in the Soviet zone in 1946 .

Works

• Volga children , Berlin 1934
• Adventure around Saratov , Berlin 1936
• On the steppe side , Hamburg 1936
• Volga children in the Baltenland , Berlin 1938
• The boys from the German doctor , Berlin 1939
• The great homecoming , Berlin 1941
• Inselkinder , Wilhelmshaven 1950
• The seven tents , Wilhelmshaven 1952

Web links

• Biographical information about Erika Müller-Hennig from her great-nephew Dieter Müller-Hennig