Frieda Hartmann

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Frieda Hartmann (born April 1, 1893 on the Schlatt above Neu St. Johann , † July 28, 1986 in Ebnat-Kappel ) was a Swiss writer from Toggenburg .

Life

Frieda Hartmann-Scherrer grew up as the thirteenth of fifteen children of a Toggenburg family of mountain farmers. As a child she worked on her parents' farm, then in an embroidery business and as a maid.

In 1922 Frieda married the farmer's son Heinrich Hartmann. They went bankrupt on a farm in Brunau ( Thurgau ) and finally settled in Blomberg near Ebnat-Kappel in Toggenburg. Heinrich became one of the last clapboard makers in the area.

Frieda, mother of three, worked as a seamstress and wrote short stories , novels and plays at night . Her novels and stories are witnesses of the life of the people in Toggenburg in the middle of the 20th century. They tell of the fate of small farmers, of the fate of illegitimate children, of the social ostracism of the failed farmer.

Frieda Hartmann's works were successful, in particular the autobiographical development novel by a young Toggenburg woman “Lydia” and her childhood memories “Mein Bruder Rosenmann”.

Works

  • Lydia. Novel. Feuz publishing house, Bern 1938.
  • Farmer without land. Novel. Feuz publishing house, Bern 1948.
  • Silver fox Renate. Children's story. Loewes Verlag, Stuttgart 1954. Drawings by Wilhelm Eigener .
  • My brother Rosenmann. Childhood memories. Toggenburger Verlag, Wattwil 1966.
  • Lydia. Stories and novels from Toggenburg. New edition, anthology. With an afterword by Hansruedi Kugler. Toggenburger Verlag, Wattwil 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Frieda Hartmann in Toggenburger Verlag
  2. ^ [2] The literary Toggenburg. St. Galler Tagblatt, October 1, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Frieda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH New St. Johann (Nesslau)
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1986
Place of death Ebnat-Kappel