Friederike Henriette Kraze

Friede Henriette Kraze ( pseudonym : Heinz Gumprecht , born January 5, 1870 in Krotoschin , Posen as Friederike Henriette Maria Kraze , † May 16, 1936 in Eisenach ) was a German writer .

Life

Friede Henriette Kraze was the daughter of an engineer . She grew up with her grandmother in Brieg . After her grandmother's death in 1882, she lived with relatives and in pensions in Breslau , Eisleben and Droyoß . In 1888 she passed the exam for teachers at secondary schools for girls ; afterwards she taught at schools in Röhrda in Hesse , in Marne in Holstein and in Genthin . She spent another year and a half in Great Britain as well as traveling in France and Italy . She worked in the Pomeranian Löwitz as an educator in the house of Count Hans von Schwerin-Löwitz and then at a secondary school for girls in Husum . She was strongly influenced by meetings with Ferdinand Tönnies and Paul Heyse as well as by the relationship with her partner and colleague Elise von Krause. In 1906 Kraze gave up her job for health reasons.

Friede Henriette Kraze lived as a freelance writer in Charlottenburg , Gernrode , Dresden and Bernburg (Saale) in the following years . From 1910 she was based in Weimar ; most recently she lived in Endorf in Upper Bavaria .

Friede Henriette Kraze was the author of novels , short stories , children's books , poems and plays , in which she dealt with a variety of historical, social and religious issues. While the protagonists of her narrative works are often women, her most successful work, the novel "The Magical Woods", published in 1933 under the pseudonym "Heinz Gumprecht" , deals with the fate of German prisoners of war in Siberia during the First World War . The novel was reviewed by Georg Raddatz (1933), Walther G. Oschilewski (1933), Elisabeth Propach (1934), Alexander Pache (1934), Heinrich Bosse (1936) and Braune (1938). The work reached a total circulation of over 150,000 copies until it was taken off the market in 1943. It is an expression of Kraze's pronounced Russophilia and the admiration she showed for the "Russian soul". On the other hand, her relationship to National Socialism was shaped by a mystical fascination for the figure of Adolf Hitler .

Kraze's works "Land im Schatten", "German Christmas" and "The Magical Forests" were on the " List of literature to be sorted out" in the Soviet zone after 1945 .

Works

• Hans Guckindiewelt , Nuremberg 1897
• What I told my little Gertrud , Breslau 1897
• Johannes Brüggemann. Tragedy in four acts in free meter , Husum 1902
• Rein , novella, Heilbronn 1903
• Under the wreath of thorns , Roman, Leipzig 1903
• Allerleirauh , Stuttgart 1904
• Vogelfrei , Stuttgart 1904
• In the shadow of the world ash , Stuttgart 1905
• Heim Neuland , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1909
• The broadcast of Christoph Frei , Stuttgart 1913
• The war pastor , Stuttgart 1914
• Fatherland , Stuttgart 1914
• Fulfillments , Stuttgart 1915
• With drum and sword , poems, 1915
• Sources that jump , Dresden 1917
• Brock's. A novel of Germanness in Russia , Leipzig 1918
• The Ring and Other Stories , Leipzig 1919
• The beautiful, wonderful youth of Hadumoth Siebenstern , Stuttgart 1920
• Our garden , Weimar 1920
• The birch from Dondangen , Leipzig 1921
• Amey , Leipzig 1922
• The secret , Stuttgart 1923
• Maria am Meer , Kempten 1923
• This was Mariebell , Kempten in 1924
• The suitor , Munich 1925
• Year of Change , Munich 1925
• The stone gods , Stuttgart 1925
• The real face , Hamburg 1925
• The women of Volderwiek , Hamburg 1926
• Die Meertrud , story, Altona 1926
• Cathedral of Time , Wroclaw 1927
• The freedom of Kolja Iwanow , Braunschweig 1927
• From the Unfulfilled , Berlin 1927
• Dolores , Berlin 1928
• The child , Braunschweig 1928
• The soldier and the little Madonna , Braunschweig 1928
• The woman's heart , Braunschweig 1929
• Spring in the park , Gotha 1929
• Land in the shadow , Braunschweig 1929
• The star dome , Braunschweig 1929
• Mysterium , Braunschweig 1930
• The rose fairy tale , Stuttgart 1930
• Garba , Gütersloh
  • 1. The game is over - will life come now? , 1932
  • 2. Die and Will , 1933
• Golden Doors , Gütersloh 1932
• The magical forests , Gütersloh 1933 (under the pseudonym Heinz Gumprecht)
• The harvest , Gütersloh 1934
• Master Brüggemann , Gütersloh 1934
• The Tree of Knowledge , Munich 1935 (under the pseudonym Heinz Gumprecht)
• German Christmas , Gütersloh 1935
• Wedding at Hollersbrunn and other stories , Gütersloh 1935
• A mother's way , Gütersloh 1937
• Poems, novels and other posthumous writings , Klagenfurt 2003

literature

• Hans Hermann Gaebe (Ed.): Shining traces , Braunschweig 1930
• Jürgen Dietrich: Friederike Henriette Kraze (1870-1936) . In: "Literature and Sociology", Issue 17, Klagenfurt 1996
• Arno Bammé and Jürgen Dietrich (eds.): Friede H. Kraze. From Husum to Weimar, Life and Work , Munich [u. a.] 2000
• Gerrit Lungershausen: World War in Words. War prose in the Third Reich 1933 to 1940. Metzler 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-16485-0

Web links

• Article about Kraze in the "Killy Literature Lexicon", 2nd edition, 2010
• Biography Friede Henriette Krazes in the "Database Writing and Image 1900–1960"
• Works by Friederike Henriette Kraze in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Literature by and about Friederike Henriette Kraze in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lungershausen, p. 246
2. ↑ Agnes Harder : "Women's poetry in wartime". In: The day ahead of us. A gift from German students in great times , Furche-Verlag, Kassel 1916, p. 121 f.