Florentine Goswin-Benfer

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Florentine Goswin-Benfer (born May 2, 1883 in Mollseifen , † March 15, 1968 in Iserlohn ) was a German Westphalian native writer who wrote her poems on Wittgensteiner Platt .

The poet with the original first name Dina was born on May 2, 1883 as the daughter of the Mollseifen farmer Carl Gustav Benfer and his wife Catharina Elisabeth born. Hellwig born. She grew up in minor soaps. In 1899 she met the village school teacher Ernst Otto Goswin, who worked in Girkhausen , with whom she was officially married on October 20, 1904 in Langewiese . Shortly after the marriage, the couple, who remained childless, moved to Iserlohn, where Goswin started a new job as a teacher in his hometown.

Florentine Goswin-Benfer was in Iserlohn a. a. active as social worker for the civilly blind. The dialect poet became known for her literary talent. In 1920 Goswin-Benfer became a full member of the German Writers' Association . From the wealth of your works that have been published over the decades, the poem "Hemet, Liewe Hemet", which relates to the Wittgenstein landscape, is one of your most beautiful works. This poem, which was also set to music, is one of the most popular folk songs in the Wittgensteiner Land . Her home village commemorates the popular local poet with a memorial stone.

Quotes

"Become a supplication, fire, that purify the flame / And free our people from the last dross, / The blood should be pure and bear witness to a tribe, / Who stands like granite to the leader in love and loyalty .... / We stand by the fire and swear in its bills, / "We live and die for Germany" and it will be like that forever. "

- from: Hemet leaded Hemet; Fire saying 1938, summer solstice

"United with the Führer in faith and hope, / Because" Germany remains Germany "when everything falls apart."

- Ibid

Works

  • Hemet lead Hemet. Poems in High German and in Wittgenstein dialect. Verlag Ernst Schmidt, Laasphe 1938.
  • Kathrinche, take care! Wittgensteiner songs and dances, folk and nursery rhymes. Supported by the Westfälischer Heimatbund Münster and the Wittgenstein district . Wichelhoven, Iserlohn 1941, with R. Zündorf
  • Mariehanne and Friedhelm Trapp Ed .: Florentine Goswin-Benfer, Collected Works. Mollseifen, Kassel 2006

Dependent publications

  • Karl-Rolf Lückel: Mollseifen honors Wittgenstein local poet Florentine Goswin-Benfer, in: "Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV" Vol. 89 (2001), Volume 65, pp. 82-83.
  • Ulf Lückel, Friedrich Opes: Florentine Goswin-Benfer died 50 years ago - a review, in: "Wittgenstein. Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV, vol. 106, (2018), vol. 82, no. 2, pp. 54–59 .

Handwritten

  • WLA Hagen (partial estate)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulf Lückel, Friedrich Opes: Florentine Goswin-Benfer died 50 years ago - a review, in: "Wittgenstein. Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV, Vol. 106, (2018), Vol. 82, H. 2, P. 54– 55.
personal data
SURNAME Goswin-Benfer, Florentine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Westphalian native writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Minor soaps
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1968
Place of death Iserlohn