Erika Schirmer

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Erika Schirmer (2015)

Erika Schirmer (* July 31, 1926 as Erika Erna Mertke in Polish Nettkow , district of Grünberg i. Schles. ) Is a German writer and former kindergarten teacher and special education teacher. She was best known for the song Little White Peace Dove, composed and written by her .

Life

As a displaced person , Erika Schirmer lived in what was later to be the GDR , initially in Eichsfeld , then worked as a kindergarten teacher on Rügen and worked in Nordhausen from 1948 . After she had successfully completed her teaching degree in 1956, she worked in the elementary school in Nordhausen-Salza . From 1972 Erika Schirmer was a teacher for disabled children and young people.

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Soviet postage stamp from 1981 depicting Picasso and his 1949 dove of peace

She created "hundreds of poems, songs, nursery rhymes, short stories, calendar and art sheets as well as paper cuttings", which often thematize the Harz and Nordhausen. These were presented at almost 120 exhibitions, including traveling exhibitions in Poland . In the Thüringer Allgemeine she published her verses as Harzer thimble . In 1948 her first children's song, Winter has come ... was published. The "GDR folk song" and the song by the young pioneers, Little White Dove of Peace , which she composed and wrote in the same year, became widely known . It was created after she saw a poster for the Paris World Peace Conference in 1949 with the world-famous drawing La Colombe by Pablo Picasso .

Awards

  • 1996: Award for exemplary integration of emigrants in the FRG by the President of the German Bundestag Rita Süssmuth
  • 1998: Art Prize of the National Association of Expellees for their volume of poetry "Heimat, die ich meine"
  • 2004: Art Prize of the National Association of Expellees for their complete works
  • 2011: Golden Roland
  • 2013: Honorary citizen of the city of Nordhausen
  • 2014: Honorary citizen of her hometown Czerwieńsk (Poland)
  • On October 6, 2016, she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her long-term commitment to peace, humanity, the education of values ​​and democracy .

Web links

Commons : Erika Schirmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volksstimme.de, Germans sing the song of the peace dove together in Nietkow, Poland , October 17, 2012 .
  2. ↑ NNZ-Online.de: Erika Schirmer visiting friends , April 20, 2015.
  3. ^ Verlag Wittich, The Mother of the "Little White Peace Dove" , May 6, 2013 ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wittich.de
  4. ↑ a b c d Kyffhaeuser Nachrichten, exhibition opened , December 10, 2008 " .
  5. ↑ a b c d Website of the city of Nordhausen, picture gallery: silhouettes and flower pictures by Erika Schirmer in the “Flohburg” museum , January 18, 2007 .
  6. ↑ Art Collection :: ARTIFACT. Retrieved August 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ NNZ-Online.de: Golden Roland awarded 19 June, 2011. .
  8. ↑ MDR: Author of the "Little White Dove of Peace" honored , October 5, 2016 ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  9. ↑ Report from January 31, 2018 on Nordhausen.de , accessed on January 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Schirmer, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mertke, Erika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, kindergarten teacher and special education teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Polish Nettkow , Grünberg in Schlesien