Franziska Rademaker

Franziska Rademaker (born July 19, 1878 in Amsterdam , † February 3, 1961 in Kevelaer ) was a German writer.

Life

Franziska Rademaker comes from an old family based in and around Bocholt. The father left Bocholt and went to Holland to get married there. Franziska Rademaker was born there. Her father died five years after she was born. She returned to her family in Bocholt and spent her childhood and youth here with her sister.

Franziska Rademaker attended the daughters' school at the time and then studied with the Sisters of Notre Dame in Tegelen. She passed the teacher exams for elementary, middle and higher schools at the age of 18. At the beginning she taught as a private teacher, after another French exam she became a teacher at the Catholic Lyceum in Düren in 1900. However, at the age of 38 she had to give up her job for health reasons. Now she devoted herself entirely to writing. She also wrote a novel set in Kevelaer, which was a great success with a circulation of 50,000 copies.

Franziska Rademaker later moved to Cologne. She lived here until 1943. In Cologne she published various larger novels in newspapers and magazines. Due to the war and its effects, she lost her home and moved to Olsberg in the Sauerland. In 1951 she left Olsberg and moved to Kevelaer where she was accepted in the house "Regina Pacis". She lived here right at the location of her first novel. Rademaker wrote another novel here, published a volume of short stories and worked regularly on the diocese newspaper “Church and Life”. She was unable to publish her last novel, on which she worked for many years. After her 75th birthday, her health problems increased more and more, which then caused her body and mind severe suffering. She died on February 3, 1961 and was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Kevelaer. Her grave is a few steps away from the cloister on which the processions take place, which she described in her book "The Ave der Heimat".

Works

• The Ave of home - Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker, 1958, 41st - 43rd thousand
• Mountain of Fates - Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker, 1954, 8th - 10th thousand
• The Ave of Homeland - Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker, 1951, 30th - 32nd thousand.
• Paradise - Emmerich, Niederrheinische Verl. Anst., 1950
• On the outgoing Rhine - Emmerich, Niederrheinische Verl. Anst., 1949
• The Ave of Homeland - Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker, 1949, 26. - 29. Th.
• Sankt Nikolaus - Essen, Fredebeul & Koenen, 1948
• The big Sendling - Essen, Wibbelt, 1947
• Luitgardis, von Hohenelten's wife - Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker, 1941, 4. – 7. Thousand
• The girl Ka is looking for Germany - Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker, 1939
• The Thousand Year Reich - Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker, 1935
• The Ave of home - Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker, 1933, [New Edition], 13. – 17. Thousand
• The light of the world - Munich, Val. Höfling, 1930, 2nd ed.
• Anglein keep holy watch - Munich, Val. Höfling, 1927, 3rd, unchanged. Ed.
• The Ave of Homeland - Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker, 1925, 10th to 13th thousand.
• Anglein keep holy watch - Munich, Val. Höfling, 1925, 2nd, unchanged. Ed.
• Christkindleins Engel - Munich, Val. Höfling, 1925, 2nd, unchanged. Ed.
• Monika Hagemann's love - Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker, 1921
• Angels keep a holy watch - Munich, Val. Höfling, 1921
• Home Ave - Kevelaer, Butzon & Bercker, 1920
• Forest magic - Munich, courtier, 1919
• The funny doll's house - Munich, courtier, 1919
• Jugendlust - Munich, courtier, 1919
• The angel thanks - Munich, courtier, 1919
• Christkindleins Engel - Munich, courtier, 1918
• Spring creams - Munich, courtier, 1916
• The way of the Lord - Essen (Ruhr), Fredebeul & Koenen, 1915
• The German Girls' Oath - Munich, Courtier, 1915
• After twenty-four years - Essen (Ruhr), Fredebeul & Koenen, 1915
• Maria, Queen of the May - Limburg ad L., club printing house, 1913
• The Easter Bunnies - Paderborn, F. Schöningh, 1912

literature

PM Schulte and W. Arens: Two Bocholt writers and a religious. Anne Tölle-Honekamp, ​​Franziska Rademaker, Abbess Maria Paschalis, in: Our Bocholt. 12th year (1961) H. 3, pp. 18-21.

Web links

• Bocholter Stadtlexikon
• Franziska Rademaker in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors