Georgine Koehler

Georgine Köhler (born August 22, 1846 in Soßmar , Peine district , † July 8, 1903 in Hanover ) was a German writer .

Life

Georgine Köhler's father was initially a farmer and later a merchant in Alfeld (Leine) . After finishing school, she looked after the terminally ill landlord on a manor in Westphalia for twenty years and also ran his household. After the death of her employer, she first moved to Bad Oeynhausen to cure herself there. After another three years she moved to Hanover and at the age of 45 began her literary work in the form of stories and poems.

Fonts

• The last bouquet. 1892.
• Faithful and free. Stories from the popular life of Lower Saxony , Helmke, Hildesheim 1899.
• Bouquet of ears. 1900.
• The house on the dike or Heini and Louischen. Stories for the youth. 1901.

literature

• Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. 6th, completely revised and greatly increased edition, 4th volume, Leipzig 1913, p. 52.
• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon (= repertories on German literary history , Volume 9). Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , p. 164.
• Hiltrud Schroeder : Köhler, Georgine. In: Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie & Co. Significant women of Hanover. Biographical portraits. Fackelträger-Verlag, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , p. 242.