Erminia from Olfers-Batocki

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Erminia v. Olfers-Batocki with daughter Hedwig on Tharau (1916)

Paula Anna Irene Erminia von Olfers-Batocki (born June 29, 1876 in Rathshof near Königsberg i. Pr. , † December 14, 1954 in Bad Harzburg ) was a German landlady and writer. She was known as an East Prussian dialect poet and radio play author.

Life

Erminia Tortilovitz von Batocki was the daughter of the landowner Rudolf Tortilovitz von Batocki (1845–1900), lord of Gut Tharau ( Prussian Eylau district ), and Pauline von Gramatzki (1848–1914), heiress of Tharau. Erminia spent her childhood in the Luisenhaus on the Hufen (Königsberg) . She began to write as a young girl on her mother's estate in Tharau . On May 24, 1912, she married the future Finance President Johannes (Hans) von Olfers (born February 16, 1878 at Gut Metgethen ; † January 28, 1945 at Gut Tharau when the Russians invaded), with whom she lived in Königsberg. There she headed the local editorial office of the East Prussian housewife . She later moved back to Tharau.

She wrote poems in natangischem Platt and wrote fairy tales , amateur dramatics and rural stories. She got on well with Agnes Miegel . The best known was her great self-testimony Das Taubenhaus . The family story takes place in Königsberg from 1762 to 1862. In it she also describes the festival that the Pappenheimer , Lithuanian and Masurian people celebrated on the Galtgarben in 1832 . Some of the characters in the novel were actually Pappenheimers. How exactly she was informed is also shown by the mention of the "Drengfurtia" . Most of her literary work was lost during the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1950 . The East Prussian village stories show her as a nature-loving and linguistically gifted writer.

She wrote a diary about her escape . When Erminia von Olfers-Batocki died at the age of 78, her daughter Hedwig von Lölhöffel (1913–1986) continued her work. The second edition of the pigeon house was published in 1986 in Würzburg.

See also

Erminia in the last year of her life

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Peter Hansen: Erminia von Olfers-Batocki. In: Low German Bibliography and Biography . Institute for Low German , accessed on April 18, 2018 .
  2. ^ Gudrun Wedel: Autobiographies of women: a lexicon . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna, 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20585-0 ; accessed on April 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002. ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  4. ^ Manfred Höhne: History of the village and the Tharau estate. In: ostpreussen.net. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Erminia von Olfers-Batocki. Working group of the Memellandkreise, archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on April 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Hans Lippold: Masovia in the pigeon house . Altmärker-Masuren newspaper 44 (1969), p. 873.
  7. ↑ Low German cultivated: 125 years ago Erminia v. Olfers born . In: Ostpreußenblatt , June 30, 2001, accessed on April 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Olfers-Batocki, Erminia von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Natangen, Erminia von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Rathshof , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1954
Place of death Bad Harzburg